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The fall of Napoleon.
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ISBN: 1316345211 1316347443 1316346315 131634729X 1316348571 1316257134 0521875420 1107683505 9781316348574 9781316257135 9780521875424 9781107683501 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With more than a million men under arms throughout central Europe, Coalition forces poured over the Rhine River to invade France between late November 1813 and early January 1814. Three principal army groups drove across the great German landmark, smashing the exhausted French forces that attempted to defend the eastern frontier. In less than a month, French forces ingloriously retreated from the Rhine to the Marne; Allied forces were within one week of reaching Paris. This book provides the first complete English-language study of the invasion of France along a front that extended from Holland to Switzerland.

The impact of Napoleon : Prussian high politics, foreign policy and the crisis of the executive, 1797-1806
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ISBN: 0511583036 051100186X 9780511001864 0521453607 9780511583032 9780521453608 0521453607 9780521893855 0521893852 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines Prussia's response to Napoleon and Napoleonic expansionism in the years before the crushing defeats of Auerstadt and Jena, a period of German history as untypical as it was dramatic. Between the years 1797 and 1806 the main fear of Prussian statesmen was French power, rather than revolution from below. This threat spawned a foreign-policy debate characterised by geopolitical thinking: the belief that Prussian policy was conditioned by her unique geographic situation at the heart of Europe. The book breaks new ground both methodologically and empirically. By combining high-political and geopolitical analysis, it is able to present a more comprehensive and nuanced picture than earlier interpretations. The book also draws on a very wide range of sources, official and unofficial, many previously unused.

Napoleon's troublesome Americans : Franco-American relations, 1804-1815
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ISBN: 1612343015 1435610334 9781435610330 9781612343013 157488879X 9781574888799 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books Inc.,

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Shortly before the United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812, Congress came within two votes of declaring war on Napoleon BonaparteÆs French empire. For six years, France and Britain had both seized American shipping. While common wisdom says that America was virtually an innocent in this matter, caught in the middle of the epic wars between France and Britain, Peter Hill has uncovered a far more complex and interesting history.French privateers and NapoleonÆs navy were seizing American merchant ships in a concerted attempt to disrupt BritainÆs commerce. American ships were the


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Meteors that Enlighten the Earth
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ISBN: 1443843105 9781443843102 1299645151 9781299645158 1443842079 9781443842075 9781443842075 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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Napoleon promoted and honored great men throughout his reign. In addition to comparing himself to various great men, he famously established a Legion of Honor on 19 May 1802 to honor both civilians and soldiers, including non-ethnically French men. Napoleon not only created an Irish Legion in 1803 and later awarded William Lawless and John Tennent the Legion of Honour. Napoleon also gave them an Eagle with the inscription "L'Indépendence d'Irlande." He awarded twenty-six of his generals t...


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Napoleon
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ISBN: 128197904X 9786611979041 9048504317 9789048504312 Year: 2006 Publisher: [Amsterdam] Amsterdam Academic Archive

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Wie was Napoleon? Over die vraag werd door Franse historici al tijdens zijn leven (1769-1821) gediscussieerd. Na zijn dood nam de discussie alleen maar toe. Was Napoleon een machtswellusteling en een tiran? Of bezorgde Napoleon Europa de beginselen van de Franse Revolutie (vrijheid, gelijkheid en broederschap) en legde hij zo de basis voor de huidige Europese Gemeenschap? De historicus Pieter Geyl, tussen 1936 en 1958 hoogleraar Algemene en Vaderlandse geschiedenis na de Middeleeuwen aan de Universiteit Utrecht, beschreef zestig jaar geleden de Franse discussie over Napoleon in een briljant bo

The Napoleonic Wars
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ISBN: 1315063778 1135977623 9781135977627 1306110238 9781306110235 9781315063775 1579583660 9781579583668 9781135977764 1135977763 9781135977696 1135977690 Year: 2013 Publisher: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group


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The French Revolution and Napoleon : crucible of the modern world
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ISBN: 9781474213714 9781474213721 9781474213738 9781474213745 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic


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The Napoleonic Mediterranean
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ISBN: 1350988952 1786720876 9781786720870 9781784531447 1784531448 9781786730879 9781350988958 Year: 2017 Publisher: London New York, NY

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The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed of almost the entirety of the western, European lands bordering its northern shores, however tenuously many of those shores were held. The disastrous attempt to conquer Egypt in 1798-99, and the rapid loss of Malta to the British, sealed its eastward and southern limits. None of Napoleon's Mediterranean possessions were easily held; they were volatile societies which showed determined resistance to the new state forged by the French Revolution. This book looks at the similarities and differences between Napoleon's Mediterranean imperial possessions. It considers the process of political, military and legal administration as well as the challenges faced by Napoleon's Prefects in overcoming hostility in the local population.


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The emperor on the battlefield : Napoleon's worth as a military commander
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ISBN: 9783954895076 3954895072 3954890070 9783954890071 9783954890071 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hamburg : Anchor Academic Pub.,

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Hauptbeschreibung This book seeks to explore two working hypotheses: Firstly, that Napoleon''s alleged military superiority in terms of skill and battlefield competence over his peers can be empirically quantified and proven. Secondly, that the results of Napoleonic warfare can be predicted by applying the theory of Contest Success Functions to these battles. To address these claims this book is organized into four sections: Theory: The first of the conceptual sections summarizes the theoretical underpinning behind the economical understanding of conflict. This so called ''second approach'' an

Napoleon's Italian campaigns : 1805-1815
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ISBN: 0313010609 9780313010606 0275968758 9780275968755 1280315024 9781280315022 9786610315024 6610315027 Year: 2002 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger,

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The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars raged in Italy for 23 years. In that time, no fewer than eight campaigns involving hundred of thousands of troops were mounted in the Italian peninsula, as France and Austria struggled over this secondary, but still vitally important theater of war. As Frederick Schneid demonstrates in this groundbreaking work, control of Italy was rightly seen by Napoleon as an important means of applying strategic pressure on the Austrians, while simultaneously providing security for France's vulnerable southern flank. As the first in-depth consideration of the struggle for strategically key region, this book places the Italian campaigns into their proper historical context.

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