200th Anniversary of the Russian Campaign
…recommend Jacob Walter’s Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. This two-hundred page volume, which includes current commentary, comes from of the diary of Jacob Walter, a German infantryman conscripted into…
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Darwin, Tortoises and St Helena
…the Galapagos famous, had also stopped at St Helena Island. He arrived there on July 8, 1836, five and half years into his six-year trip around the world and fifteen…
Happy Birthday, Napoleon!
…club, we toasted the Emperor. I’m looking forward to seeing these folks and other Napoleonic enthusiasts at the Historical Society’s annual conference, held this year in Baltimore September 16-18. One…
The Briars, Napoleon’s First St Helena Residence
…for more comfortable surroundings. Riding disheartenedly back to Jamestown, he and his escort came across a pleasant estate in a valley below a heart-shaped waterfall. When they stopped to meet…
The Boy on the Mantel in Longwood’s Dining Room
…of Rome back to her father’s court in Austria. Napoleon, although he lived for seven more years, was never allowed to communicate with either of them again. I was surprised…
Prisoners of St Helena
…setting, it provided a perfect location for Napoleon and his retinue. The military could easily defend its boundaries from invasion or escape. The governor’s family might comfortably relocate to the…
Remote St Helena
…as many as a thousand ships a year called at the island. Back then, before the Suez Canal, it was a stopover for ships from China, India and east Africa…
Ecole Militaire, Paris
Nine years in impoverished Corsica followed by six years in countrified Brienne couldn’t have prepared fifteen-year-old Napoleon for the Paris Ecole Militaire. He must have been overwhelmed when he first…
Ecole Militaire, Brienne
In 1779, nine-year-old Napoleon arrived at military school in Brienne. Barely speaking French in a heavy Corsican accent, he faced five years of isolation, austerity and mockery. Yet, despite his…
Other Writings
When I travel, stories flourish all around me. A few years ago, while on the flight home from St. Bart’s, a speck of France in the Caribbean, I jotted down…