The BBC’s chief contribution to the bicentenary has been to rename itself the Bonapartist Broadcasting Corporation.
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Articles on Napoleon
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When word reached the Scottish writer of Napoleon’s famous defeat, he promptly travelled to the continent to bear witness to the carnage first-hand
How did the bulk of those at home in Britain find out the news of Waterloo?
From Belgium to Moscow to Helmland: how one battle helped shape how we think of war.
Two centuries on, the history of the battle and our understanding of it should by no means be a predominantly male affair.
If you’d taken a trip to the theatre in 1815 Paris, chances are that the stage would be political.
On February 26, 200 years ago, Napoleon escaped from exile on the island of Elba. In some ways, this moment was more important than his eventual fall.
In 1810, after seven years of the Napoleonic Wars, the prime minister, Lord Liverpool, penned a memorandum stating that Britain’s military was: “as large a force … as the Population and Finances of the…
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