The Year Without a Summer 1816 May 22, 2008
Europe was already suffering from food shortages due to the Napoleonic Wars. This caused riots and looting. (Suite101.com)
Call 'Em International Treasures May 21, 2008
CALL 'EM INTERNATIONAL TREASURES - New York Post. CAN'T jet to Britain just now. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
The archetypal heroine May 17, 2008
And yet (as Carol Shields points out in her gem of a study for the Penguin Lives series), Austen's family offered all sorts of other material: two brothers fighting in the Napoleonic wars, an aunt thrown into prison for stealing a piece of lace from a shop, a cousin's husband guillotined in the French Revolution, a sister's fianc dying of yellow fever in India. Austen shoved all of this to the side, along with bereavement, religion, servants and children (though as a maiden aunt, she spent... (Globe and Mail)
A Landscape Of Giants May 13, 2008
"The conglomerates are like the Rothschilds funding both sides in the Napoleonic wars,'' Diller said. "They are on both sides of virtually every transaction. " It's the kind of talk you'll hear more of in the coming years. More On This Topic Companies: | | | | Article Controls | | | | | | | Related Sections > | | Advertisement: Related Business Topics > ADVERTISEMENT Related Business Topics Resources CEO Book Club Book Excerpts Book Review Andrew EganMaybe Roger Rosenblatt's satire of academia... (Forbes -- Business)
Shipwreck treasure May 11, 2008
A lawyer for the Spanish government, James Goold, told a Madrid news conference "there is multiple evidence" that the disputed treasure came from the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, whose sinking off the Algarve led Spain to declare war on Britain and re-enter the Napoleonic Wars. Coins, ship fittings and other material taken from the shipwreck have been documented to have been on the the Mercedes while the location of the find also indicates according to several sources that it came from the... (Yahoo News)
Spain claims shipwreck treasure May 9, 2008
The sinking of the Nuestra Senora de la Mercedes by a British warship in 1804, off the Algarve, led the country to declare war on Britain and re-enter the Napoleonic Wars. "The sinking of Mercedes was a pivotal event in Spanish and European history, and the site and its contents are the inalienable historical heritage and patrimony of Spain," the government said in documents filed with a Florida court on Thursday. (BBC News -- Europe)
City putting 'sting' on pesky mosquitoes May 8, 2008
Discovered centuries ago, pyrethrum was used in a powdered form to protect the French Army from body lice during the Napoleonic Wars. Today, extracted from the flower by solvents, it is sprayed into the air in Brookhaven. (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
MEDIA'S WAR LIES Apr 17, 2008
Yet, at the war's conclusion, it was redcoats seasoned in the Napoleonic Wars who fled from the US Army's "Cottonbalers" at New Orleans. In the Mexican-American War, Gen. Winfield Scott's march on Mexico City was the most brilliant campaign ever fought by American troops - yet, earlier in the conflict, an entire troop of US Cavalry (new immigrants) deserted to the Mexican side. (New York Post -- Opinions)
* Goya show a reflection on mans violence Apr 16, 2008
A new exhibition at Madrids Prado Museum features disturbing works created by Francisco de Goya, formerly the Spanish courts official painter, from the troubled decades covering the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars ... The exhibit displays works from the troubled decades covering the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the ensuing treaties that brought an end to the Ancien Regime in France and ushered in modern Europe. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
A simple idea catches a genius' attention Apr 14, 2008
The idea was to publish them in a patriotic volume, with profits going to widows and orphans of the Napoleonic Wars (and a share of the glory going to Diabelli). The twist: Instead of writing a single variation, Beethoven wrote 33. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Strong yuan maybe China's savior Apr 8, 2008
From the Rothschild family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the rise of JP Morgan, the Rockefellers and other prominent US financial powerhouses, Song sees all the modern wars, depressions and men-made disasters having a linkage to the manipulation of a handful of Western private bankers. The Great Depression of the 1930s, the oil crises of the 1970s, and the fall of the Soviet Union were all apparently masterminded by the small group of Western bankers and financiers. (Asia Times Online)
Indian billionaires buy historic Hichens for 55.5m Apr 5, 2008
However, the Napoleonic wars damaged pilchard fishing by cutting off supplies of French salt required to preserve the fish. So Robert set out for London where he joined a shipping broker, and later set up his own stockbroking firm. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Royal Mounted Marines of the 1800s Mar 31, 2008
The official disbanding date of the Royal Mounted Marines has been lost to history but it is known that no other histories mention such a force after the Napoleonic wars. The Royal Marines also saw service on Camels during the Egyptian campaign. (Suite101.com)
Book Review: The Stone Gods Mar 29, 2008
Winterson has previously pulled off such tours de force as a genderless narrator ("Written on the Body"), a magic-realist vision of the Napoleonic wars ("The Passion") and a computer-savvy storyteller blurring fiction and reality ("The PowerBook"). In her essay collection, "Art Objects" (the title's second word is most appropriately parsed as a verb), she describes our attitude to difficult literature: "We want it and we don't want it, often simultaneously, and at the same time as a book is... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
£254m battle of the Black Swan Mar 24, 2008
A little after 10 o'clock, their seven-month voyage from Peru, via Uruguay, to almost within sight of the Iberian peninsula came to an end with the British broadside that sent the treasure-laden frigate and 200 souls to the bottom of the Atlantic and brought Spain into the Napoleonic wars. But after lying undisturbed on the seabed off Portugal for more than two centuries, the Mercedes is now at the centre of the biggest treasure grab in history. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Britain's best hospitals: A patients' guide Mar 20, 2008
Moorfields was founded to treat an epidemic of trachoma, a form of tropical conjunctivitis which still causes blindness in Africa, and was brought back to England by British troops returning from the Napoleonic wars in Egypt. Despite its recent problems, Moorfields remains Britain's most highly-regarded eye treatment centre. (Independent)
Wounds of war bring home new ways of healing Mar 19, 2008
In the Napoleonic Wars, soldiers were rapidly transported to medical facilities from the battlefield via convoys of horse-drawn wagons in the earliest version of a trauma center. . (MSNBC -- International)
The Embargo Act of 1807 Mar 18, 2008
In addition, The Napoleonic Wars were well underway in Europe, and so the British and the French were at each others throats. Out of this state of affairs came two decisions which affected all Americans. (Suite101.com)
Putin takes in some Moscow theater — and offers criticism for the cast Mar 15, 2008
He gave them pointers about their staging of the popular play, which satirizes Moscow society after the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century. "Why did you at the very beginning show (the main character) crying? One gets the impression of him as a weak person. He's a strong man. He withstands everything that's there. You showed him sniveling," he asked the cast. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Gardening Australia Feb 16, 2008
Did you know that such was the Empress Josephine's influence that during the Napoleonic Wars ships carrying her specially bred roses were allowed through the blockades. It's great to have Gardening Australia back on screen for 2008 but disheartening to find out that this will be Cundall's last year as host. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Post re-enactors join Battle of New Orleans Feb 15, 2008
The 95th was a sharpshooter regiment of the British Army made famous by its exploits in the liberation of Spain from French domination during the Napoleonic Wars and later immortalized in a modern British miniseries "Sharp's Rifles." The regiment became a multiracial force near the end of the struggle to liberate Spain when acute manpower shortages forced it to recruit Spanish soldiers into its ranks. The British adopted the green jackets after realizing a need for sharpshooters to operate... (Leavenworth Lamp, KS)
Some films need their violence Feb 10, 2008
Tolstoy is describing a battle scene from the Napoleonic Wars between Russia and France. His soldier on the field, a Russian artillery captain named Tushin, does not feel the slightest fear. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
A History of Dentures Feb 3, 2008
There are reports of men scavenging the aftermaths of battlefields during the Napoleonic wars, armed with nothing but a set of pliers, collecting the choicest teeth from the fallen soldiers in hopes of using them in other mouths. Unfortunately, this left those who could afford to pay the high price of the dentures made from these teeth stuck with what they got, which were usually substandard; either oddly colored, the wrong size, or quite simply rotten. (Suite101.com)
Self-Catering in Dover Castle, UK Feb 2, 2008
During the Napoleonic Wars, these tunnels were greatly extended to provide barracks for the thousands of soldiers called to Dover Castle to prepare for invasion from France. The massive underground complex was called on again during the Second World War to play one of the most vital roles in its 2,000 year old history, when it seemed that England was about to be invaded. (Suite101.com)
Language barriers hobble Belgians Jan 30, 2008
Delval's frustration grows from a new flare-up of old tensions in this country, where French- and Dutch-speaking populations were thrown together by border redrawings after the Napoleonic wars. Following national elections last June 10, the country limped along with no federal government for a record 195 days. (MSNBC -- International)
Marshal Nicholas Charles Oudinot Jan 30, 2008
In the twenty years of the Napoleonic wars he had served in nearly every campaign and been wounded in combat an amazing 24 times. When his warlord and master Napoleon was forced to Elba, Oudinot pledged allegiance to King Louis XVIII. When Napoleon landed in France and began his hundred day count down to Waterloo, Oudinot, now and old warrior with thirty years service under his belt, declined to join his old commander. (Suite101.com)
Bernard Cornwell offers lusty 'Sword Song' Jan 29, 2008
The British-born writer has written 40 terrific novels including the Richard Sharpe Napoleonic Wars series. New in stores is Sword Song, the fourth installment of Cornwell's energetic Saxon Tales series featuring Uhtred of Bebbanburg. (USA Today -- Life)
Chugging down a satisfying series Jan 27, 2008
What separated O'Brian from the countless other novelists who set tales at sea during the Napoleonic Wars was that he managed to convey the sensibility of another time in a writing style that preserved certain vanished ways of speech and thought but had nothing of the costume drama or pastiche about it. He produced a vision that owed its lighting to both past and present, and that was enlivened by a sly trans-century humor. (Boston Globe)
The Zombie World War Jan 27, 2008
Max Brooks new book, 'World War Z; An Oral History of the Zombie War" while fictional, is an adaptive interpretation based on actual military history. Max Brooks has chronicled one of the most interesting and devastating wars in history. The fact that this war never took place and borders on the science fiction are beyond the fact. The war I refer to is World War Z. This of course (and the clues may have been out there with Mr. Brooks last work, The Zombie Survival Guide) is about the war... (Suite101.com)
To The Ends Of The Earth Jan 20, 2008
A young aristocrat's journey to Australia on a British warship during the Napoleonic Wars ... Talbot falls haplessly in love with another woman in "Close Quarters", second in a three-part adaptation of William Golding's trilogy on a young aristocrat journeying to Australia on the British warship HMS Pandora near the end of the Napoleonic Wars. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Captain Bligh's other mutiny Jan 18, 2008
In fact, because of the manpower requirements of the Napoleonic Wars, far fewer convicts had been sent out than had been originally intended. By 1806 the majority of the population comprised free men - ex-convicts or settlers - and many resented Bligh's quick-tempered and coarse-tongued manner, honed over decades at sea. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Book roundup: Historical fiction Jan 10, 2008
By Jocelyn McClurg, Deirdre Donahue, Carol Memmott and Robert Bianco, USA TODAY These four novels offer a little taste of history: the waning days of the Civil War in Custer's Brother's Horse; the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in Annette Vallon; the Golden Age of Dutch Art in The Golden Tulip; and ancient Rome in Antony and Cleopatra ... Unmarried, she bore him a daughter, Caroline, but the Revolution and Napoleonic Wars separated them for years. (USA Today -- Life)
The Battle of Khambula Dec 22, 2007
The British had first taken control of the cape of Africa in 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars for strategic reasons. Over the years, the British slowly expanded the region of their control in Africa in attempt to bring peace to the area. (Suite101.com)
The amazing double life of Enriqueta Favez Dec 17, 2007
Once qualified, she worked as a military surgeon at the height of the Napoleonic wars. She was eventually captured in Spain by Wellington's troops. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Flag is still flying, but Belgium is at half mast Dec 14, 2007
Created largely by Britain after the Napoleonic Wars in order to build a buffer between France and Germany, Belgium straddles Europe's fault line between the Germanic north and Latin south. Nearly 60 per cent of its population of 10. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Books: Book Review: Diamonds, Gold and War Nov 30, 2007
The Fate of Africa" was Martin Meredith's monumental study of 50 years of postcolonial African history, all of it compressed into a single, mesmerizing volume. Although the range of his material was enormous, Meredith managed to present a strong narrative and sharp overview. His new book, "Diamonds, Gold and War," devotes itself solely to the development of one part of the continent, South Africa, over a shorter period: 1871-1910. But bitter tensions, wild economic changes, shifting factional... (International Herald Tribune)
With Leaders The Name Counts Nov 13, 2007
Wellington, Nelson, and Napoleon were principal commanders in the Napoleonic Wars. Rabin, Sharon, and Dayan, led Israel in war and peace. (Suite101.com)
Two musicians, four hands, one piano Oct 27, 2007
When the Napoleonic wars bankrupted the wealthy Viennese, composers adapted orchestral works to piano for small parties and family fun. That fun could sometimes include players bumping each other. (Durango Herald)
War, no peace in Tolstoy translation spat Oct 23, 2007
For their latest translation, the couple remained faithful to the traditionally weighty version of Tolstoy's epic about members of Russian society dealing with the Napoleonic Wars. They have produced a more than 1,200-page translation for Knopf, which went on sale last week. (CBC Ottawa)
Claims of CIA jail for terror suspects on British island to be investigated Oct 19, 2007
Ceded to Britain after the Napoleonic wars, the archipelago was a dependency of Mauritius until 1965, when it was detached, later becoming the British Indian Ocean Territories, sovereign British territory. Over the next eight years the 2,000 inhabitants were forcibly removed, first to the Seychelles and then to Mauritius, where many remain economically marginalised. (Guardian Unlimited)
Tolstoy's voice echoes in new 'War and Peace' translations Oct 11, 2007
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
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)
The war on military history May 26, 2007
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)
Racy past of Sarkozy's new home May 17, 2007
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)
In brief: MPAA says thank you for not smoking May 11, 2007
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 help cure MRSA patients May 3, 2007
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)
