Napoleonic Wars

This, the fourth volume in Andrew Field's highly praised study of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective, depicts in vivid detail the of...

The Battle of Quatre Bras was critical to the outcome of the Waterloo campaign to the victory of the allied armies of Wellington and Blcher, the de...

Bruce Collins''s in-depth reassessment of the Duke of Wellington''s siege of San Sebastian during the Peninsular War is a fascinating reconstructio...

Ensign Charles Paget''s previously unpublished diary of the Peninsular War is an important discovery for two reasons. The regiment in which he serv...

On 14 June 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte fought his first battle as French head of state at Marengo in northern Italy. Unexpectedly attacked, Napoleon's ...

The Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the ...

In 1811, twelve young men were chosen among the families in the Emperor's personal service to serve as ushers in his apartments. My mother, attache...

During the Waterloo Campaign, Wellington had only one division that was composed entirely of British infantry, the 1st Division. This consisted of ...

The military success achieved by the Duke of Wellington casts a long shadow over the history of the British army in the French Revolutionary and Na...

Wellington''s clash with Massena was one of the most remarkable contests between two commanders in the Peninsular War. These two formidable general...

Histories of the Light Division have tended to be incomplete, being based on memoirs of a few well known diarists, principally from the 95th Rifles...

After Napoleon's victories over Austria and Prussia, he rearranged the map of Germany. In 1807, he created the Kingdom of Westphalia as a model sta...

Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels and philosophy. The standard tex...

In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds ne...

When Napoleon returned to Paris after exile on the Island of Elba, he appealed to the European heads of state to be allowed to rule France in peace...

On 23 June 1812 the French Grande Arme, over 600,000 strong and composed of men from the many nations that had become part of Napoleons empire, pou...

The Trafalgar Chronicle is a prime source of information as well as the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes a...

Napoleon Bonaparte and Juliette Recamier were both highly influential and well-known in France, yet they were often at odds with each other. Their ...

For almost two decades, Napoleon Bonaparte was the most feared, and revered, man in Europe. At the height of his power, the land under his control ...

When Napoleon's Grand Armee went to war against the might of the Habsburg empire in 1809, its forces included more than 100,000 allied German troop...

Memoirs of British soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War are commonplace and histories of the momentous campaigns and battles of Sir John Moore...

Admiral Lord Nelson''s diamond Chelengk is one of the most famous and iconic jewels in British history. Presented to Nelson by Sultan Selim III of ...

A masterful study of command, control, communications, and even intelligence of all the major combatants during the Waterloo Campaign. Destined to ...