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1.

The French Wars 1792-1815 » Read Now
by Charles J. Esdaile. 96 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A highly original and critical introduction to the revolutionary and napoleonic conflicts. It illuminates the less well-known areas of the subject, such as the changing atttitude of the French people towards Napoleon, as well as providing a balanced account of the campaigns of Wellington and...
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A highly original and critical introduction to the revolutionary and napoleonic conflicts. It illuminates the less well-known areas of the subject, such as the changing atttitude of the French people towards Napoleon, as well as providing a balanced account of the campaigns of Wellington and Napoleon.Based on current historiography, this book discusses the expansion of France, the extent to which Napoleon was responsible for this success, and the events leading up to his subsequent exile. It also provides a clear examination of each of the coalitions which fought against France.
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Soldiers of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy: Army, State, and Society, 1800-1815 » Read Now
by Frederick C. Schneid. 145 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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The Duke of Wellington and the British Army of Occupation in France, 1815-1818 » Read Now
by Thomas Dwight Veve. 228 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A relatively unexamined aspect of the career of the Duke of Wellington--his command of allied forces occupying France--serves as the focus of this work. Veve traces the history of the 1815-1818 occupation and the significant role that Wellington played in making the first multinational peacekeeping...
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A relatively unexamined aspect of the career of the Duke of Wellington--his command of allied forces occupying France--serves as the focus of this work. Veve traces the history of the 1815-1818 occupation and the significant role that Wellington played in making the first multinational peacekeeping force a success. He explores the decisions made and procedures established by the Duke, and demonstrates that Wellington's command was not simply the final chapter in a successful military career, but rather an important transition to his future political endeavors.
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Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812 » Read Now
by Eugene Tarle. 428 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...than any other of Napoleons wars; it was more directly dictated...the interventionists. The Napoleonic press called the Austerlitz...and bold speculations. The Napoleonic...
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Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe » Read Now
by F. M. H. Markham. 183 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...He foretold the ending of wars of position by a mobile war...sustain the revolutionary and Napoleonic type of warfare, with its...and the manufacture of the Napoleonic...
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The Waterloo Campaign, June 1815 » Read Now
by Albert A. Nofi. 333 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Albert Nofi has used his many years of research to produce an account of the battle of Waterloo that has all the grandeur and military detail one could want, but which never loses its interest in individual human experience. Here Napoleon rides forward to take personal command of a small detachment...
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Albert Nofi has used his many years of research to produce an account of the battle of Waterloo that has all the grandeur and military detail one could want, but which never loses its interest in individual human experience. Here Napoleon rides forward to take personal command of a small detachment of French Marines to fight his way across the Sambre river on the way to Waterloo. Hanoverian exiles who have been fighting Napoleon for a decade under English command are surrounded and wiped out in a classic "last stand" at the hour of victory.
The Waterloo Campaign also covers the death of the Duke of Brunswick, the reconciliation of Napoleon and his estranged brother Jerome in the crucible of battle, and the tragic loss and miraculous delivery of many ordinary people.
Special features of The Waterloo Campaign include the most complete orders of battle available for the British, French and Prussian armies, a detailed comparison of artillery and musketry capabilities, sidebars profiling many of the personalities of the campaign, weather conditions for each hour of the battle and the best-informed estimates available on unit strengths and casualties, for horses as well as humans, during the campaign.
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Napoleon's Conquest of Europe: The War of the Third Coalition » Read Now
by Frederick C. Schneid, Jeremy Black. 194 pgs.

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Amiens 1802: The Phoney Peace: David Johnson Reconsiders the Nature of the Peace Treaty between Britain and France and the Tarnished Reputation of Prime Minister Addington, in History Today » Read Now
by David Johnson. 7 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...torch of resistance against the Napoleonic war machine. Amiens was nevertheless...situation, arguing that civil wars usually end in the domination...early 1803 it became...
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Napoleon and Polish Identity, in History Today » Read Now
by Andrzej Nieuwazny. 6 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...University of Washington Press, 1975); George Nafziger, Mariusz T. Wesolowski, Tom Devoe, The Poles and Saxons during the Napoleonic Wars (The Emperors Press, 1991). Dr...
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Napoleon and German Identity: How Napoleon Laid Up Trouble for Future Generations of Frenchmen by Kick-Starting Prussian and German Domination of Eastern Europe, in History Today » Read Now
by Tim Blanning. 7 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the debris of the Napoleonic Wars very much in charge...Eventual victory in the wars of 1813-15 seemed...in Austria the Napoleonic experience strengthened...French...
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Canning and the Baron de Agra, in History Today » Read Now
by Martin Murphy. 7 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...enmeshed Britains Foreign Secretary in his intrigues during the Napoleonic War. At the beginning of 1808 the British Government faced...concluding that Ferdinand...
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Eighteenth-Century Europe (Chap. 20 "The Napoleonic War") » Read Now
by Leonard W. Cowie. 397 pgs.

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...XXI. XX. THE NAPOLEONIC WAR 363 XXII...which had fought three wars to defend the Netherlands...1 P. 367. years of Napoleonic conquest until the nineteenth...and was...
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The Waning of 'Old Corruption': The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846 (Chap. 3 "The French Wars and the Failure of Pittite Reform") » Read Now
by Philip Harling. 310 pgs.

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Most historians of Britain now take for granted that a narrow and mostly landed elite managed to retain its social supremacy throughout much of the nineteenth century. But as yet, there is no throrough explanation for the persistence of the old elite's political authority in an age when that...
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Most historians of Britain now take for granted that a narrow and mostly landed elite managed to retain its social supremacy throughout much of the nineteenth century. But as yet, there is no throrough explanation for the persistence of the old elite's political authority in an age when that authority was seriously questioned by many Britons. In this original study, Philip Harling furnishes an important part of this explanation. He argues that the mostly Pittite governing elite helped to allay the suspicions of parasitism at the root of the familiar critique of 'Old Corruption' by responding to intense pressure to sanitize government.
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Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815 (Chap. 18 "The Last French Wars, 1793-1815") » Read Now
by Wilfrid Prest. 363 pgs.

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Between the restoration of Charles II and the battle of Waterloo, England gradually emerged as the core nation of the most formidable superpower the world had yet seen. This lively, up-to-date, and comprehensive overview explores the cultural, social, and economic motivations of the people behind...
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Between the restoration of Charles II and the battle of Waterloo, England gradually emerged as the core nation of the most formidable superpower the world had yet seen. This lively, up-to-date, and comprehensive overview explores the cultural, social, and economic motivations of the people behind this remarkable transformation, during which England lost her American colonies but gained an Empire.
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Popular Resistance in Napoleonic Europe, in History Today » Read Now
by Charles Esdaile. 8 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the imperial era, Napoleonic rule also signified...no doubt that the wars led everywhere to real...empire, so that the Napoleonic Wars were fought against...Most Monstrous...
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The History of France (Chap. 6 "The French Revolution and Napoleon") » Read Now
by W. Scott Haine, Frank W. Thackeray, John E. Findling. 264 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This is the most up-to-date, concise, yet comprehensive narrative history of France, current through the end of 1999. Engagingly written for students and general public, it brings to life the compelling history of this fractious and fascinating country, which has given to the world cultural glory...
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This is the most up-to-date, concise, yet comprehensive narrative history of France, current through the end of 1999. Engagingly written for students and general public, it brings to life the compelling history of this fractious and fascinating country, which has given to the world cultural glory and a model of democratic revolution. No longer a nation of peasants or small shopkeepers, France has weathered the storms of the first half of the 20th century to emerge as the fourth largest economic power in the industrial world. At the turn of the 21st century French society is in dynamic flux, shaped by integration, feminism, youth culture, and economic and social change. Each chapter of this work covers a distinct period of French history, from prehistory to France at the end of the 20th century, examining the problems and issues of that era and how they impacted later events.
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