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Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace, set during the Napoleonic Wars, was first published in Russian in six volumes from 1865 to 1869. It's been through nine English translations and four movies. (USA Today -- Life)
Shakin' it up: Towns turn to unconventional attractions to lure visitors Oct 7, 2007
Gaertner, a French immigrant, fulfilled a promise his mother made: If he returned safely from the Napoleonic Wars, she would build a church. His mother died before she could fulfill that vow. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
The cat's whiskersCats make Russia's Hermitage Museum their luxury home Oct 6, 2007
The cats survived the Napoleonic wars. They lived through the revolution of 1917. (BBC News -- Europe)
Large Mouths and Wellington Stew Sep 19, 2007
"Wellington's name comes up only because he was equally disdainful of commentators," noted the reader, who forwarded a letter the duke wrote during the Napoleonic Wars to the British Parliament ... " "Great citation of the Lee letter," writes one Inside the Beltway reader, who notes, as we did, that Lee's telling line is often mistakenly attributed to the first duke of Wellington, Sir Arthur Wellesley. "Wellington's name comes up only because he was equally disdainful of commentators," noted the... (Townhall.com)
Danes mark 200th anniversary of Battle of Copenhagen Sep 2, 2007
Catley has participated in reenactments of mainly Napoleonic Wars, including the battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo. "Taking part in reenactments is a hobby that allows me to get away from modern time tensions," Catley said. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Visit Melk Abbey From Vienna Aug 26, 2007
It was spared during Emperor Joseph II s crackdown on abbeys late in the 18th Century, again during the Napoleonic Wars and then again during the Nazi conquest of Austria in 1938. The Nazi did seize part of the abbey and the school, but those were returned after World War II.. (Suite101.com)
So what about this book poll? Aug 26, 2007
You were rereading Hornblower and the Hotspur, one of the many volumes in C.S. Forester s 11 superbly entertaining novels about this fictional naval hero during the Napoleonic wars. According to the survey, the typical American claimed to have read four books during the past year. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Touring the Moscow Metro Aug 25, 2007
The station's ceiling is adorned with mosaic panels depicting the country's great military leaders from Alexander Nevsky and the 14th century Dmitry Donskoy to the famed Alexander Suvorov and Prince Kutuzov, the great Russian hero of the Napoleonic Wars. The mosaic panels were created using ancient Byzantine techniques and include tiny squares of colored glass, marble and granite. (Suite101.com)
Torchwood Series 1 Episode 7 Aug 25, 2007
Earlier a soldier of the Napoleonic wars, intent on rape, chased a girl into a wood, only to meet a brutal end. This body has clearly died by violent means. (Suite101.com)
Book Review: 'Motherland': The Russian way of thinking Jul 28, 2007
But after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, Russian aristocrats and many intellectuals turned away from the clear, distinct and universal ideas of the Enlightenment, which were now associated with terror and imperialism. This was an enormous mistake, in Chamberlain's view, because it meant abandoning the subtle equipoise between reason and skepticism that characterized the French and English Enlightenments at their best. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A Swede as a Spanish painter? 'Goya' vey Jul 21, 2007
Purportedly a stirring tale of the collision of religious fundamentalism and Enlightenment ideals during the Napoleonic Wars, the film casts Stellan Skarsgard as Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes -- because when you think of one of the towering figures of Spanish art you immediately look to Sweden for the casting. Painter to the court and printmaker of darkly subversive political etchings, Goya remains on the film's sidelines, bedeviling the monks of the Spanish Inquisition while keeping in the... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Milos Forman's historical 'Goya's Ghosts' Jul 20, 2007
GOYA'S GHOSTS. Rated R. Director Milos Forman ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Amadeus") tells how the Spanish Inquisition and the Napoleonic Wars affect - and afflict - the intersecting lives of a priest (Javier Bardem) and a merchant's daughter (Natalie Portman). Deeply flawed, but oddly fascinating. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
A royal by any other name Jul 19, 2007
Initially the immigrants kept their names but as anti French feeling increased due to the Napoleonic wars the names were changed. Our name Gracey was originally LeGrace and is predominantly found in Eastern areas of Northern Ireland where the immigrants first landed. (BBC News -- UK)
A prescription for Canada: rethink our tax policy Jul 3, 2007
ROGER MARTIN AND GORDON NIXON. From Monday's Globe and Mail. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Blair given eclectic gifts while in power Jun 27, 2007
The foal, a Pyrenees Merens breed that is descended from animals used in the Napoleonic wars, was given to the Blair family during talks with ex-French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Blairs daughter Kathryn, then age 9, was thrilled, but he and wife Cherie chose to leave the foal in the care of a local family. (MSNBC -- International)
The Russian Imperial Guards Jun 23, 2007
The hated pug nosed Emperor Paul I formed a unit (which he named the Pavlovsky Regiment-after himself) who wore mitre caps (like the Pope wears today) and recruited almost nothing but 'pug-nosed' men The Guards again covered itself in glory during the Napoleonic wars. Against Napoleon and his allied armies the Guards saw combat in the epic battles of Austerlitz, Friedland, Kulm, Lutzen, Borodino, and became one of many triumphant armies to march through the streets of Paris. (Suite101.com)
Few visit scene of one of HItler's greatest feats Jun 19, 2007
But even military buffs, who flock to Waterloo the best known site from the Napoleonic Wars or WWI and WWII battlefields such as Ypres, Passchendaele or Bastogne, rarely bother to make the two-hour drive from Brussels to Eben Emael. We do get regular visits by special forces from Belgium, Holland, Britain and Germany and other NATO countries who still study this action in detail, said Joost Vaessens, a tour guide at the fort. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Legions of toy soldiers engage in history's wars Jun 19, 2007
Today there are at least 3,000 soldiers in their American Civil War collection alone, another 1,200 from the Napoleonic Wars and 1,000 from the Romans and Vikings ... Tony said he finds the Napoleonic Wars the most challenging because they involve many troops: British, Austrian, Prussian, Russian, French and Polish. (Waynesboro Record Herald, PA)
Thousands flock to meet their Waterloo Jun 19, 2007
He is now a rifleman and hopes to make sergeant one day if he manages to make it through the Napoleonic Wars ... All three wore the representative kilt of the 1815 Black Watch uniform and carried Brown Bess muskets, the standard British firearm of the Napoleonic Wars ... Nearly 1,000 women, mostly wives and girlfriends, accompanied these weekend warriors, much like the women who followed armies on their campaigns in the Napoleonic Wars. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Bank family patriarch dies at 98 Jun 15, 2007 The war on military history May 26, 2007 Racy past of Sarkozy's new home May 17, 2007 In brief: MPAA says thank you for not smoking May 11, 2007 Maggots help cure MRSA patients May 3, 2007 Maggots feast on MRSA, researchers find May 3, 2007 Maggots used to cure MRSA May 3, 2007 Lost altar paintings go for 1.7m Apr 20, 2007 Price Of Heroism: The rise and fall of first VC hero Apr 20, 2007 Carouge: A world away from nearby Geneva Apr 19, 2007 A world away in laidback Carouge, Switzerland Apr 18, 2007 Art purchases advance Getty's ambitions Apr 18, 2007 Hall wins BYU's QB race Apr 17, 2007 Manfred Honeck Apr 8, 2007 Vintage anchors aweigh (Gary Arnold) Apr 5, 2007 Tracing the grim beginnings of modern war to the French Revolution Apr 4, 2007 Company gives updated 'Daughter' spirited outing Apr 2, 2007 The Origins of the Black Watch Mar 16, 2007 Great Jane?Austen-mania has hit, but what's the big deal with her work? Mar 11, 2007 My enemy's enemy Feb 28, 2007 This history lesson worth repeating Feb 23, 2007 'Mathematics' doesn't equate Feb 22, 2007 Recognizing Iran's irrelevance Feb 9, 2007 War of the Words: Feb 7, 2007 Slaughterhouse Feb 6, 2007 More of this story Feb 4, 2007 Page turners: 'The Mathematics of Love' Feb 3, 2007 A 'Lords' history Feb 1, 2007 Code Pink Undermines War on Terror Jan 29, 2007 Was 9/11 that bad? Jan 28, 2007 Of missionary zeal and its consequences Jan 27, 2007 Washed-up napolitaine provides rich pickings for the folk of Devon Jan 24, 2007 Gebhart: See 'Flags of our Fathers' and think of 'Scrapple' Leonard Jan 23, 2007 Book Review: The Utility of Force Jan 19, 2007 On song at the front line Jan 15, 2007 Annihilation strategy came from Napoleon Jan 15, 2007 The French-Thai War Jan 14, 2007 Infotainment Jan 7, 2007 Historical tourist guide updated Jan 2, 2007 Error! Imitation interface Jan 2, 2007
This changed with Baron Guy de Rothschild, whose title had been passed down since the emperor of Austria recognized the contributions of a Rothschild ancestor during the Napoleonic wars. He took control of the family's Paris branch and set about modernizing operations after their near ruin during the Nazi occupation of France. (Houston Chronicle)
Yearning sighs and longing glances for Welshman Jun 4, 2007
Ioan Gruffudd - pronounced Yo-wahn Griffith - played a swashbuckling naval hero forever leading his shipmates into adventures during the Napoleonic wars. On fan web sites, Gruffudd was referred to as "Welshcake" and admired for his GFS ("gaping frilly shirtage"). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
He found no articles on the conduct of World War II, the American Revolution or the Napoleonic Wars ... He found no articles on the conduct of World War II, the American Revolution or the Napoleonic Wars. (Townhall.com)
Situated on the chic Faubourg Saint-Honore, just off the Champs Elysees avenue, the elegant building served successively during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars as a furniture warehouse, a print factory and a dance hall. n Cossacks camped at the Elysee when they occupied Paris in 1814. (People's Daily Online, China)
The film, which will feature Maggie Smith and Timothy Spall, is a time-travelling yarn about a boy who darts from the 1940s to the Napoleonic wars to uncover family secrets. The film is a joint venture from Ealing and Lionhead Productions. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Maggots have been used since the Napoleonic Wars, - they eat the dead tissue and bacteria, leaving the healthy tissue to heal. The University of Manchester study involved 13 patients who had chronic foot ulcers that had suffered loss of feeling and reduced blood supply. (BBC News -- Health)
He said: "Maggots are the world's smallest surgeons. In fact they are better than surgeons - they are much cheaper and work 24 hours a day."They have been used since the Napoleonic wars and in the American civil war they found that those who survived were the ones with maggots in their wounds: they kept them clean. They remove dead tissue and bacteria, leaving the healthy tissue to heal. (Guardian Unlimited)
"They have been used since the Napoleonic Wars and in the American Civil War, they found that those who survived were the ones with maggots in their wounds: they kept them clean. "They remove the dead tissue and bacteria, leaving the healthy tissue to heal. "Still, we were very surprised to see such a good result for MRSA. "There is no reason this cannot be applied to many other areas of the body, except perhaps a large abdominal wound. (Manchester Evening News)
The altar panels, painted by Italian monk Fra Angelico in 1439, disappeared after the altar was destroyed in the Napoleonic wars ... The two small works were originally part of the altarpiece of the church of St Marco in Florence, which was broken up during the Napoleonic wars. (BBC News -- UK)
Sir Charles, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, turned his attentions to the Russian fortress at Bomarsund - an aggressive symbol of the Tsar's expansionist plans and an obvious target for Britain's naval might. An earlier bombardment had failed to destroy the outpost, although the bravery of one ship's mate, throwing a live shell overboard, had earned the award of the first Victoria Cross. (Independent)
Following the upheaval of the Napoleonic wars, Carouge joined the canton of Geneva in 1816, much to the displeasure of its inhabitants, who kept those green shutters closed on Swiss national day in protest. The town's independent atmosphere lingers. (CNN -- Travel)
Following the upheaval of the Napoleonic wars, Carouge was incorporated into Geneva, which joined Switzerland in 1816 - much to the displeasure of its inhabitants, who kept those green shutters closed on Swiss national day in protest. Still, the town's independent atmosphere lingers. (MSNBC -- Travel)
The Christ figure is thought to have been part of an altarpiece that was dismantled in the early 19th century, possibly during the Napoleonic Wars. The Getty bought the work from a private collector in Spain. (Los Angeles Times)
At the time of the Napoleonic wars, soldiers who fell off their horses and had their foot caught in the stirrup of their saddle as they were dragged tore a ligament in their foot. At times it was so severe it meant amputation. (Deseret News)
" Pointing to a towering peak known as Fundelkopf, he tells of the day that bad weather so spooked him and a friend while ascending that they ran all the way down on treacherous paths. Strolling past the village chapel, he recalls how, during one outdoor service, a herd of roving cows camped by the church. "We were smiling when they were around and were thinking how the cows [were] thinking about the sermon of the priest," says Mr. Honeck, as amused as if it had happened yesterday. The squat... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
In the meantime, Warner Home Entertainment has released a couple of vintage evocations of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars -- "Captain Horatio Hornblower" from the Warner Bros. backlog and "Billy Budd" from the extinct Allied Artists -- that retain good entertainment value 56 and 45 years after their respective debuts. (Washington Times, DC)
At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, as the French armies engaged in a series of increasingly titanic clashes across Europe, the writer Fran ois-Ren de Chateaubriand pondered how vast and all-encompassing warfare had become ... Before he plunges us into the fury of the Napoleonic Wars, Bell sketches the cultural background to his account, and an emerging Enlightenment-era discourse on pacifism and commerce. (Boston Globe)
The whole cast got neatly into the spirit of things in a staging that - quelle surprise - updates the action from its original setting in the Napoleonic wars. Director Emilio Sagi has moved the time to the closing months of World War II. Somehow, Marie is now the "daughter" of an American regiment that sweeps into a French village after the German army has fled. (SunSpot.net)
During the Napoleonic Wars, they captured the colours from Napoleon's "Invincible" Legion and fought at Toulouse until all but sixty men in the entire regiment were left unwounded. During the Indian Mutiny one of their number was awarded the first of the Regiment's 14 Victoria Crosses (Britain's highest military honor). (Suite101.com)
"Her novels are only about romantic love and family life and they are two of the few things that haven't change in the world since she was alive. Both things still absorb us and annoy us in equal measure. If she'd written about the Napoleonic Wars no one would have read her books.". Add your comments on this story, using the form below. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
During the Napoleonic wars, Britain subsidized any government that would oppose the Corsican upstart. In 1941, responding to criticism over his embrace of Stalin's Russia, Winston Churchill declared that "if Hitler invaded hell, I would at least make positive reference to the devil in the House of Commons." At the height of the Cold War, President Richard Nixon sent National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger on a secret mission to Beijing in order to forge an informal alliance with Mao's China... (International Herald Tribune)
Yet the honest desire to change an ugly truth in one's country becomes sedition during wartime -- an allusion not lost on anyone who has lived in the United States during the Iraq war -- and Apted shows us how wrong-headed patriotism during the Napoleonic wars derailed Wilberforce's debate. The Parliamentary scenes are refreshingly lively, reminding us how dull in comparison U.S. congressional hearings can be. (The Miami Herald)
But it's certainly evolutionary, a sweeping tale of love and loss unfolding in one place, rural England, across two eras: after the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century and in 1976 ... The Mathematics of Love is a sweeping tale of love and loss unfolding in one place, rural England, across two eras: after the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century and in 1976. (USA Today -- Life)
Ignoring historical interpretations for responsibility in the Napoleonic Wars, Kagan is, at the very least, correct to recognize that countries extending themselves beyond traditional conventions will face harsh responses. This does not mean their actions are necessarily wrong, but it does explain the contrarian reaction of the international community -- something that Iran has discovered all too well. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
But it would have been peculiar if Thackeray suggested that Vanity Fair was "inspired by true events" because his characters were caught up in the Napoleonic Wars. And, if you are dealing with something as momentous as the assassination of a president, you might want to stick to facts that were dramatic enough. (Slate)
Meanwhile, the Duke of Wellington, who actually ended up winning the Napoleonic wars, is, as Bell admits, about as eighteenth-century a figure as you can hope to find; he believed in avoiding battle until the final, decisive moment, and winning with professional soldiers and a motivated officer class. What would be the alternative view of the history of war in the period. (New Yorker)
In 1799 England implemented a tax in an effort to finance the Napoleonic Wars and the United States had a temporary tax during the Civil War. So, March 1 was tax day. (Douglas Daily Dispatch, AZ)
Major Stephen Fairhurst lost his leg and his love in the Napoleonic wars. His arranged engagement to a young widow has fallen through (she couldn't handle his disability), but he has struck up a correspondence with her sister, an independent-minded artist. (Christian Science Monitor)
Most famous for his Richard Sharpe series about a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars, the prolific Cornwell has written many other historical series covering a range of times and places. EXCERPT. (USA Today -- Life)
In the British Parliament it was spokesmen for the moneyed interests, for the emerging middle classes in the Northern manufacturing districts and for the City of London, who were the appeasers during the Napoleonic Wars, during the Crimean War, during the Boer War, and during the period from the rise of Hitler to the German invasion of Poland. In our own country it was largely from business circles that the important opposition came to the American Revolution, to the War of 1812, to the... (Human Events Online)
" But he undercut his own argument by adding that the United States has overreacted to every threat in its recent history, including even Pearl Harbor (rather than trying to defeat Japan, he argued, we should have tried containment!).Seeing international conflict in apocalyptic terms viewing every threat as existential is hardly a uniquely American habit. To a certain degree, it is a universal human one. But it is also, more specifically, a Western one, which paradoxically has its origins in one... (Los Angeles Times)
Before the end of the Napoleonic wars, Christian sailors risked capture and enslavement by Muslim pirates from the Barbary ports of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Governments could either front protection money, cough up ransom or threaten force. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Salvage has always been a part of life on the rugged Devon coast smuggling gangs operated in the area in the Napoleonic Wars but there had been nothing on this scale. "There is a decent wreck every 25 years, but I don't think there has ever been anything as big as this," said a man guarding a crate of BMW gear boxes each worth about 3000 ($A7525), which had been removed from a container. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
For too many of our young people, World War II is as ancient as the Napoleonic Wars. If they didn't see "Saving Private Ryan" in the movie theater, they'd know even less. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
He also notes, in his discussion of the Napoleonic Wars, the first stirrings of a new kind of conflict, in which spontaneously organized, irregular forces carried out campaigns of ambush and harassment. The Spanish Peninsular Campaign, as Smith describes it, was nothing less than the first war amongst the people, a baffling, rule-breaking conflict in which hopelessly outnumbered and poorly equipped guerrillas fought, not to win, but to keep alive the idea of Spanish independence, and to redeem... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
She has just opened in a new production of Donizetti's late comedy La Fille du regiment at London's Royal Opera, singing the role of Marie, the orphan adopted by a regiment of French soldiers during the Napoleonic wars. Dessay is the first soprano to tackle the role of Marie since the Royal Opera mounted the opera for Joan Sutherland -- with the young Luciano Pavarotti firing off a stunning sequence of nine high Cs in his big solo number -- almost 40 years ago. (The Australian)
The Napoleonic Wars may have been named after him, but because they were no more than the aftershock cum hangover of the French Revolutionary Wars, they would probably have been fought even had he never been born ... I am rather less convinced by the parallels Bell wants to draw between the Napoleonic Wars and our own war on terror. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Despite some activity (mainly by individual French adventurers), the period of Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars saw little official interest in the area. But in the mid-nineteenth century the French built upon missionary efforts in Indochina, and nibbled out an empire of sorts from the petty states along the Mekong. (Ocnus.net)
Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because its cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based. Camels. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
When the original book was printed, tourism in Scotland was just beginning and the Napoleonic Wars meant the wealthy could not travel abroad. It is hoped the updated version, showing "before and after" images, will be published later this year. (BBC News -- UK)
Time travellers from the past and future can use our computers (at which Nielsen fulminates, "taken back in time to the Napoleonic wars and made captain of a British frigate, you'd have no clue how to sail the ship: you couldn't use a sextant and you wouldn't know the names of the different sails, so you couldn't order the sailors to rig the masts"). Nielsen says, "It's highly unlikely that anyone from 2207 would have ever seen Windows Vista screens.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
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