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Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.
It was a rock-paper-scissors situation, and in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 ... commitment to seeing Napoleon vanquished.
Who was the more successful? Who was the more capable? Who accumulated the most victories? Who has the greatest legacy? Who ...
As museums encounter increasing claims on their collections, experts say much of the debate hearkens back to 1815, when the Louvre was forced to surrender the spoils of war. By Nina Siegal In ...
but Wellington insisted on Waterloo after the village, some way to the rear of his position, where his overnight headquarters had been situated. This sort of pettiness reminds us that the alliance ...
Though Hamilton didn’t live to see his enemy’s final defeat at Waterloo, The Post cheered his downfall and brought coverage of his humiliation and exile on Saint Helena. Napoleon’s death in ...
It is tragic for Napoleon that on the day of Waterloo this brilliant general made ... And I defy anyone to fall asleep during such an entertaining and consumingly interesting film.
More like Waterloo.” The French critics ... guerrilla war (the origin of that term) that drained Napoleon’s resources and hastened his downfall. The brutal French repression of conquered ...
Napoleon Bonaparte is depicted aboard the HMS Bellerophon following his surrender after the battle of Waterloo (Engraving by JC Armytage from a painting by WQ Orchardson/Hulton Archive/Getty ...