Finding Napoleon in London — Admiral Cockburn
…1814, Commodore Barney led a US Navy flotilla in the Chesapeake Bay, causing Admiral Cockburn a great deal of trouble. Unfortunately for Commodore Barney, Napoleon Bonaparte’s future jail warden had…
…1814, Commodore Barney led a US Navy flotilla in the Chesapeake Bay, causing Admiral Cockburn a great deal of trouble. Unfortunately for Commodore Barney, Napoleon Bonaparte’s future jail warden had…
If you want to mimic Napoleon Bonaparte, just stand straight and hide one hand in your jacket. It’s an immediately recognizable pose and unique to Napoleon, right? Like so many…
…the speakers covered a broad range of topics from war to art to political marriage to dueling etiquette. They examined Napoleon’s influence beyond France and Europe to its effects on…
…the reader to much more complex characters and relationships. For the following 200 pages, the high-society women tend to the wounded and dying. Many of the men heroically die or…
…day, I’m scrambling to fit in all the island has to offer. Last Friday, for example, was St Helena’s Day, so all the Napoleonic sites and the archive were closed….
…of her day?) The sunshine, however, is fleeting, as trade winds sweep this high, broad plain, bringing dreary clouds, fog and frequent rain. Napoleon complained constant dampness was killing him…
…discussion, a museum guide flagged down a passing high-level Louvre official. The gracious curator directed us to the room just beyond the coronation painting. All the while apologizing that there…
Napoleon’s first wife Josephine was born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie in Martinique on June 23, 1763. If you could ask her, however, she’d probably lie and tell…
…dampening the ship’s roll, she bucked high waves and heaved continuously. Gray skies and occasional rain added to the gloom. The first two days, we mostly stayed in our cabin,…
…pursue, particularly about Napoleon’s youth. The Fondation maintains an extremely useful website at www.napoleon.org and Professor Hicks publishes their electronic newsletter. Both are available in English, and invaluable for Napoleonic…