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The Napoleonic code.(The Age of Napoleon)(Book Review)
Alistair Horne The Age of Napoleon. Modern Library, 240 pages, $21.95
In 1801, First Consul for Life Napoleon Bonaparte sent an army of 35,000 men to take control of the city of New Orleans, the key to the vast territory returned to France in 1800 by secret treaty with Spain. Along the way, the expeditionary force was supposed to make a quick detour and put down Toussaint L'Ouverture's slave revolt on Hispaniola, thus securing French influence in the Caribbean and, incidentally, a source of refined sugar to feed France's insatiable sweet tooth. As with many of Napoleon's overseas campaigns, the enterprise didn't work out as planned. Virtually the entire force ...
- Alistair Horne Publishes His Memoirs
- Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR) November 5, 1994 700+ words
...under the reach of German bombers. Alistair Horne was a 14-year-old boy then, in...across the sea to friends in America. Alistair Horne, who grew up to become perhaps the...very much for being with us again. ALISTAIR HORNE, War Historian: Thank you, Scott...
- Books: Defeated by diplomats Napoleon's fall was engineered in the salons...
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London JOHN ADAMSON November 17, 1996 700+ words
...Far From Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815 by Alistair Horne Macmillan, pounds 20...pounds 25 WHAT BROUGHT down Napoleon? By 1808, the self...Borodino or Waterloo. Alistair Horne's Napoleon is straight out of Aeschylus...
- How Far from Austerlitz? Napoleon, 1805-1815. (book reviews)
- Magazine article from: History Today MacDonogh, Katharine December 1, 1997 700+ words
Alistair Horne Macmillan xxvi...lives of Hitler and Napoleon only one has any...the bicentenary of Napoleon's coup d'etat...and originality. Alistair Horne's How Far From Austerlitz? Napoleon 1805-1815 falls...
- Napoleon's Jailer: Lt. Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, A Life. (book reviews)
- Magazine article from: History Today MacDonogh, Katharine December 1, 1997 700+ words
...between the lives of Hitler and Napoleon only one has any historical...anticipation of the bicentenary of Napoleon's coup d'etat in 1999...scholarship and originality. Alistair Horne's How Far From Austerlitz? Napoleon 1805-1815 falls disappointingly...
- A world for Napoleon
- Magazine article from: The Spectator Horne, Alistair November 16, 1996 700+ words
Alistair Horne, author of the latest book...effect a fruition of much of Napoleon's designs for Europe...who have dared to write on Napoleon recently are often asked...of what if, but at least Napoleon left us some clear markers...
- The Age of Napoleon.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Theiss, Nola November 1, 2005 700+ words
THE AGE OF NAPOLEON. Alistair Horne. 2004. Read by Paul Hecht. 5 tapes. 6 hrs...least as much about the time and culture of Napoleon's France as it is about the man himself. Napoleon became emperor at the age of 35. His life was...
- Napoleon.
- Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods Voeltz, Richard A. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...the Spanish American War, and yes even Napoleon. The production quality generally remains...as A&E's Biography where the Napoleon piece, narrated breathlessly by Jack...television these days. David Grubin's Napoleon is a joint French-American endeavor...
- Napoleon: A&E soap opera more Waterloo than intriguing look at...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 5, 2003 700+ words
...times like this, it's good to think of Napoleon Bonaparte - or, as I like to call him...say that Saddam Hussein is a child of Napoleon. Can you blame the French for taking...development? Even though the continent Napoleon roiled for 20 years is lurching toward...
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