Napoleon in Russia

Finding Napoleon in Portland, Oregon Part 2

July 31, 2017

The Portland Art Museum was one of those rare museums where I couldn’t find a work representing Napoleon Bonaparte or any aspect of his reign. An internet search through their collection, however, revealed this piece. It’s a photograph called Le Retraite de Napoléon (Napoleon’s Retreat). The artist Jim Riswold must have a dark sense of […]

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200th Anniversary of the Russian Campaign

July 23, 2012

In June 1812, Emperor Napoleon marched from Paris with one of the greatest armies ever raised. By the end of the year, what started out as 600,000 troops had dwindled to the mere 25,000 who made it home alive. One can blame disease, a severe winter, and the Russian scorched earth policy for hundreds of

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