
Napoleonic Wars in History & Memories
Memoirs, Strategy, and Eyewitness Voices from Russia, Waterloo, and the Peninsular WarBy Napoleon Bonaparte, Carl Von Clausewitz, Charles Downer Hazen, Alexandre Dumas, Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur, Frederic Shoberl, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, S. E. Winbolt, Charles Dalton, Marcelin Marbot, Adrien Bourgogne, Moyle Sherer, Robert Southey, William Lawrence, William Surtees, John Kincaid, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy, William Milligan SloaneLength358h 29m
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Napoleonic Wars in History & Memories assembles a richly variegated archive of conflict, empire, and remembrance. Military analysis, campaign narrative, memoir, biography, political history, and literary re-creation illuminate the wars from the councils of power to the privations of the marching soldier. Accounts of Austerlitz, the Peninsular conflict, the Russian campaign, Waterloo, and exile coexist with reflections on strategy, leadership, national identity, and the human costs of continental war. The result situates Napoleonic history at the meeting point of historical record and lived memory. Its contributors include commanders, diplomats, veterans, chroniclers, historians, and major literary figures writing from French and British perspectives. Their voices preserve the tensions between imperial self-fashioning, eyewitness testimony, retrospective judgment, and popular historical imagination. Napoleon and Clausewitz provide especially consequential frameworks for understanding command and war, while memoirists and later historians complicate grand strategy with intimate recollection. Together, these writings belong to the nineteenth-century formation of modern military history and to the broader European struggle to interpret revolution, empire, and restoration. This volume is invaluable for readers seeking not a single authoritative account but a sustained dialogue among competing witnesses and interpreters. It invites students, historians, and general readers to compare styles of evidence and modes of remembrance, gaining a fuller understanding of how the Napoleonic Wars were fought, narrated, and memorialized.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length358 hrs 29 mins
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Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
2Napoleonic Wars in History & Memories
3Historical Works
4The History of Napoleonic Wars (Charles Downer Hazen)
5The First Wars (The Era of Directory)
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6The Consulate
7The Early Years of the Empire
8The Empire at Its Height
9The Decline and Fall of Napoleon
10The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 1)
11The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 2)
12The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 3)
13History of the Expedition to Russia (Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur)
14HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
15BOOK I.
16BOOK II.
17BOOK III.
18BOOK IV.
19BOOK V.
20BOOK VI.
21BOOK VII.
22HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
23BOOK VIII. (pt. 1)
24BOOK VIII. (pt. 2)
25BOOK IX.
26BOOK X.
27BOOK XI.
28BOOK XII.
29Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 1)
30Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 2)
31Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 1)
32Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 2)
33Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 3)
34England and Napoleon (1801-1815) (S. E. Winbolt)
35INTRODUCTION
36THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC (1801). Source.—Thomas Campbell: Historical Lyrics and Ballads
37VERSES BY CANNING AGAINST ADDINGTON (1803). Source.—Stanhope’s Life of Pitt, 1862.
38THE YOUNGER PITT (1806). Source.—Sir W. Scott.
39Mr. Perceval’s Answer.
40ODE WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BUONAPARTE (1814). Source.—Robert Southey: Poems.
41The Waterloo Roll Call (Charles Dalton)
42INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION.
43ABBREVIATIONS.
44THE WATERLOO ROLL CALL.
45STAFF.
46BRITISH AND HANOVERIAN ARMY AT WATERLOO,
47REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 1)
48REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 2)
49REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 3)
50REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 4)