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The allied invasion of France, 1813-1814
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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.


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Meteors that enlighten the Earth : Napoleon and the cult of great men
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ISBN: 1443843105 9781443843102 1299645151 9781299645158 1443842079 9781443842075 9781443842075 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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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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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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L'autre Corse: roman
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ISBN: 2213621098 9782213621098 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris Fayard

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« Une haine de Corse », dit Talleyrand pour définir la « passion unique » qui anime le comte Charles-André Pozzo di Borgo (1764-1842) à l'égard de Napoléon. Ce vrai-faux roman est une belle histoire de haine, comme il y a de belles histoires d'amour, entre un personnage immense qui ébranle le monde et un obsessionnel qui, après avoir été son compagnon d'adolescence à Ajaccio, le traque obstinément et stimule contre lui l'animosité des princes de l'Europe entière. Une cavalcade de quelque vingt années qui, partie de « l'île de beauté », va de Londres à Vienne, de Saint-Pétersbourg à Paris, jusqu'à « la morne plaine » de Waterloo où Pozzo retrouve enfin Napoléon terrassé et s'évaporant dans la fumée de la bataille. Cette biographie romancée est une étourdissante chevauchée d'un bout à l'autre d'une Europe disloquée par la Révolution, le Consulat et l'Empire. L'Europe des proscrits, des émigrés, des comploteurs de toute obédience. Mais aussi celle des cours, des chancelleries, des alcôves et des congrès. Alexandre Ier, tzar de toutes les Russies, Franz, empereur d'Autriche, Talleyrand, Metternich, le prince de Ligne, Wellington et tant d'autres en sont les protagonistes, eux qui voient sans cesse surgir comme un furet cet inlassable gentilhomme corse, hanté par sa vendetta. Et qui témoigneront tous de son intelligence politique comme de son obstination rageuse. Un destin stupéfiant et injustement méconnu : celui de l'autre Corse.

Napoleon and the world war of 1813: lessons in coalition warfighting
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ISBN: 0714648930 9781136321351 1136321357 9780714648934 0714644447 9780714644448 9780203044810 0203044819 9781136321498 1136321497 9781136321429 113632142X 1299288650 Year: 2000 Publisher: London Cass

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This analysis of the world war between Napoleon and the 6th coalition in 1813 covers operations in Europe, Spain and North America. It examines the differences between alliances and coalitions, comparing the long-term international relationships in alliances and the short-term union of coalitions.

Napoleon's continental blockade: the case of Alsace
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ISBN: 0198218818 9780198218814 Year: 1981 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Napoleonic friendship : military fraternity, intimacy, and sexuality in nineteenth-century France
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ISBN: 9781584659235 9781584659563 9781584659440 1584659440 1584659238 1584659564 1283875055 Year: 2011 Publisher: Hanover, N.H. University Press of New England

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The first book-length study of the origin of queer soldiers in modern France


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The slaves who defeated Napoléon : Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804
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ISBN: 9780817317324 9780817385408 0817385401 0817317325 Year: 2011 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala University of Alabama Press

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To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the "Pearl of the Antilles," France's most valuable overseas colony, the largest exporter of tropical products in the world, and the United States' second most important trading partner after England. Haiti was also the place where in 1801-1802 Napoléon Bonaparte sent the largest colonial venture of his reign: the Leclerc expedition. His goal was to remove the famo

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Toussaint Louverture --- Napoleon I Bonaparte [Emperor of the French] --- Haiti --- Statesmen --- Revolutionaries --- Generals --- Public officers --- Napoleon --- Toussaint Louverture, --- Bonapart, Napoleon, --- Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana, --- Bonaparte, Napoleão, --- Bonaparte, Napoleon, --- Bonaparte, Napoleone, --- Bonaparṭeh, Napolyon, --- Buonaparte, Napoleon, --- Na-pʻo-lun, --- Nābuliyūn, --- Napoleone --- Napʻolleong, --- Napolun, --- נפוליאון --- נפוליאון, --- نابليون --- بونابرت، نابليون، --- Būnābart, Nābuliyūn, --- Toussaint-Bréda, Pierre Dominique, --- Bréda, Pierre Dominique Toussaint-, --- Toussaint, François Dominique, --- Toussaint, Pierre Dominique, --- Louverture, Toussaint, --- Ouverture, Toussaint L', --- Ṭusain Luverṭir, --- Toussaint Louverture, Pierre Dominique, --- Toussaint L'Ouverture, François-Dominique, --- L'Overture, Toussaint, --- טוסיין לוברטיר, --- Tousen Breda, Franswa Dominik, --- Breda, Franswa Dominik Tousen, --- Lauverture, --- Louverture, --- Ayiti --- Bohio --- Haichi --- Hayti --- Haytian Republic --- Quisqueya --- Repiblik Ayiti --- Repiblik d Ayiti --- Republic of Haiti --- République d'Haïti --- ハイチ --- هايتي --- Гаити --- Gaiti --- Saint-Domingue --- History --- Napoléon --- Bonaparte, Napoléon --- Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana --- Bonaparte, Napoleão --- Bonaparte, Napoleon --- Bonaparte, Napoleone --- Buonaparte, Napoleon --- Na-pʻo-lun --- Napolun

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