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Kriege und moderne militärische Konflikte bergen das wirkmächtige Potential den Verlauf der Geschichte in einer derart gestauchten chronologischen Abfolge der Geschehnisse zu verändern, die es für Gesellschaften schwer macht, sie in ihrer... more
Clausewitz è celeberrimo per la sua opera Vom Kriege (Della Guerra), unanimemente considerato uno dei classici imprescindibili dell'arte militare, ma pochi sanno che il Vom Kriege raccoglie solo i primi tre volumi dei lavori incompiuti... more
NOW OUT OF PRINT Title: Prussian Napoleonic Landwehr Infantry and Cavalry 1813-15: Landsturm, Volunteer Cavalry and Streifkorps Publisher: Partizan Press Pages: 224 pages and over 380 colour illustrations. This is the... more
English version of the paper published in 'Waffen- und Kostümkunde' 2016/1
ნაპოლეონის მამლუქის, თბილისში დაბადებული სომხური წარმომავლობის რუსტამ რაზას მემუარები.
თარგმანი: ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძე, ნიკა ხოფერია
თარგმანი: ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძე, ნიკა ხოფერია
Despite the popular aphorism, ‘the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton,’ historians have been slow to appreciate the value Georgian elites vested in their public schools and public school sport. In fact, the... more
Many books, articles and programmes have been produced about the Battle of Waterloo. Recent authors and researchers have started to take a wider perspective of this iconic struggle, which virtually ended the prolonged war against... more
SHORNCLIFFE LECTURES BOOK 5 Book 5 of the Shorncliffe Lectures series explores the development of the Baker Rifle and the Experimental Corps of Riflemen of Colonel Coote-Manningham that became the 95th Rifles. This was the first permanent... more
See Review by Robert Burnham
http://napoleon-series.org/reviews/military/c_GermanDivision.html
262 pages. 17 color uniform plates. 11 color maps. 11 black and white maps.
http://napoleon-series.org/reviews/military/c_GermanDivision.html
262 pages. 17 color uniform plates. 11 color maps. 11 black and white maps.
Autor podejmuje próbę udowodnienia tezy, że kwestie narodowe na Dolnym i Górnym Śląsku w istotny sposób znalazły swój początek w dobie wojen napoleońskich. Podczas gdy w 1807 górnośląscy autochtoni zachowywali się wobec pruskich... more
Stella Ghervas, "The Vienna Peace Settlements: From a Balance of Power to a Balance of Negotiation". What were the innovations of the Congress of Vienna? It has been traditional to affirm that the European peace and security system... more
Az 1809-es osztrák–francia háború Ausztriában és Magyarországon is számos innovatív, de hosszabb időtartamban szemlélve kivételesnek számító megoldást hozott a „népi-nemzeti háború” gondolata jegyében minél szélesebb körben végrehajtani... more
Dem Themenfeld ,,Heer und Demokratie" in Beziehung zum Selbstverständnis des Soldaten als Militär und Christ soll hier anhand der Epoche der Napoleonischen Kriege nachgegangen werden. Die Vorstellungen von Krieg und Frieden sowie... more
In 2007 the facsimile edition of an original manuscript written by a French soldier of Bonaparte’s Expedition in Egypt was published. Illustrated by naive coloured plates by the hand of the author, this document relates, almost day after... more
Les conditions de la campagne de France en Seine-et-Marne en 1814 puis la période d'occupation qui s'ensuit dans le département.
Heeringen, R.M. van/A. Vissinga, 2016: Archeologisch vooronderzoek in het oostelijk deel van het camp d’Utrecht, een Frans legerkamp uit de periode van het Bataafs Gemenebest in Austerlitz. Een inventariserend veldonderzoek onder het... more
Organizado por el Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Reseña en "20Minutos" https://blogs.20minutos.es/xx-siglos/2021/10/15/lepanto-napoleon-y-pearl-harbour-se-citan-en-hortaleza-con-h-de-historia/
Aleksey Yermolov is a legend in Russia. A man who rose from obscurity to command armies and conquer provinces, he was the epitome of a military man of action. To his enemies he was a byword for brutality, but, to his homeland, a hero.... more
This work was originally presented at a meeting of Consortium on Revolutionary Europe. It was later published in the edited papers of the conference under the title, "Consortium on Revolutionary Europe: Selected Papers, 2003, 80-88." ©... more
Fascinating things can turn up in genealogical research. I was reminded of this a few years ago while studying some of my colonial New England ancestors. As a historian specializing in the American Revolution, I am always eager to learn... more
This article will challenge the currently accepted notions of weak British consular presence, influence and activity in the southern Mediterranean during the period 1795–1832 through a case study of the careers of three successive consuls... more
In this paper, the draft evasion during the Napoleonic periode is examined. It has its focus on the Departement de l'Escaut, which is almost the same area as the current Belgian province Eastern Flanders. Several methods of draft evasion... more
Es el año de 1815, cuando transcurre en Bélgica la última de las batallas del gran Napoleón Bonaparte, emperador de una Francia que abarcaba media Europa. Justo había regresado de su cautiverio en la isla de Elba para recuperar su trono... more
In all of the major military campaigns of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the “American War of Independence” and the Napoleonic Wars, both the Royal Navy and the Crown regiments of the British Army employed Black... more
Pál Kray’s memorandum on outpost service The source publication presents a memorandum of 5th April 1800, written by Paul Kray (1735-1804), an Imperial and Royal Feldzeugmeister of Hungarian origin. The memorandum was circulated among the... more
Texto en el que se resume un pleito relativo al abastecimiento de vino por parte de las tropas napoleónicas dirigidas por el mariscal Jean-Baptiste Bessières en el verano de 1808, acantonadas en Mayorga (Valladolid). Tomaron varios... more
After five years of occupation (from 1809 exactly) by Portuguese troops come from Brazil, French Guiana was supposed to be retroceded to France after the fall of Napoleon and the first Treaty of Paris of may 1814. After the flight of the... more
This paper evolves the diferent fortification proyets on the El Rastrillar mountain (Laredo municipality), since the end of XVIth century, and decrives the diferent elements, which have came into ours days, most dated in the middle of... more
In January 2018 a cross belt plate of the Devizes Loyal Volunteers was found in Potterne by Mark Flitton (Figure 1). The find was reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (WILT-19531D) and subsequently donated to Wiltshire Museum,... more
The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often seen from a strategic point of view, or in terms of military organization and battlefield tactics, or through officers’ memoirs. It is rarely seen from the perspective of the lowest ranks of... more
In British shipping in the Mediterranean Katerina Galani investigates the impact of the French and Napoleonic wars on British maritime economic activity. Due to the close cooperation of the public and private sector at sea, the British... more
Ignacy Prądzyński - a participant of Napoleonic Wars, general and quartermaster general of our army during the November Uprising - belongs to the most eminent Polish military theoreticians. He is the author of 60 works from the field of... more
Wer war Andreas Hofer? Jeder Tiroler weiß es oder glaubt zumindest, es zu wissen. Schon in der Volksschule war das schicksalsträchtige Jahr 1809 Thema: die „heldenhafte Verteidigung Tirols“ gegen die napoleonischen und bayerischen... more
This essay is dedicated to cartography and the effects Napoleon's campaigns had on the representation of terrain. The reader is invited to consider Napoleon's particular style of cartography and its way of representing geographical... more
Situated just to the north of the château/farm of Hougoumont on the Waterloo battlefield, the Bois d’Hougoumont seldom gets a mention in the history books. Many authors have assumed that the wood was cut down well before the battle, but... more