Dove Named After Napoleon Bonaparte’s Niece
…had escaped to America. Their mother was too afraid to cross the ocean, but in 1821, nineteen-year-old Charlotte travelled alone to her father’s estate outside of Philadelphia. Amazingly, Dr John…
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Happy Birthday, Empress Josephine!
…you her birth year was 1767, which was what she wrote on her marriage documents. Napoleon also lied on those documents, saying he, too, had been born in 1767 instead…
Napoleonic Historical Society Conference
Last weekend, my husband Bert and I attended the Napoleonic Historical Society’s annual conference. Held this year in Baltimore, Maryland, the agenda included lectures on Napoleonic topics as well as…
Finding Napoleon in Abu Dhabi
…Bonaparte himself managed to travel during his Middle Eastern invasion. In 1798, twenty-nine-year-old General Bonaparte set out with 40,000 soldiers, 10,000 sailors and 160 scientists and scholars to conquer Egypt….
Finding a Bonaparte in Panama
…dissuaded Napoleon from attempting the project. Seventy years after Napoleon’s expedition, another Frenchman, Ferdinand de Lesseps, completed the Suez Canal. Less than ten years later, Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte-Wyse was exploring…
Napoleon’s Pastimes on St Helena
…forty-six years. At sixteen, he rushed through Paris’ École Militaire to graduate after one year instead of the normal two. In 1798, on his way to Egypt, young General Bonaparte…
Finding Napoleon in Alaska? Yes!
…the son of Napoleon’s political firebrand and frequently estranged younger brother, Lucien. In 1822, seven years after Waterloo and a year after the Emperor’s death, Charles married his cousin Zénaïde….
Jacques-Louis David’s Painting of the Coronation of Napoleon toured the United States in 1826
I’ve been doing research into Napoleon’s older brother, Joseph Bonaparte―the ex-king of Naples and Spain―and his twenty-year stay in the United States. Along the way, I learned to my surprise…
LOOKING FOR NAPOLEON IN AUSTIN, TEXAS
…in 1838 to be the capital city of the Republic of Texas, had been named Waterloo. The next year the nascent republic’s congress rechristened it Austin, after the Texas hero,…
Bonaparte or Buonaparte?
…as an eligible student in the French king’s military school. Seventeen years later, on March 9, 1796, twenty-six-year-old Napoleon signed his name Buonaparte for the last time—on documents marrying him…