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3 days ago · Statue of Napoleon Bonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. Napoleon was born on Corsica shortly after the island’s cession to France by the Genoese. He was the fourth, and second surviving, child of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and his wife, Letizia Ramolino. His father’s family, of ancient Tuscan nobility, had emigrated to Corsica in the ...
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May 14, 2024 · The French adoption of the term "Consul" was a clear reference to the Roman Republic, for that was the name given the men chosen to direct the republican government in Roman times. This source is a part of the The Napoleonic Experience teaching module. Barthélémy Joseph Fulcran Roger and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, “Triumph of Napoleon, First ...
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May 1, 2024 · This magisterial work is a comparative history of three important revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish-American struggle for independence that ended a half century later. Lester Langley describes the movements and events that led to ...
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- 2012
3 days ago · Napoleon and the British. The literature on the role of the French as ‘other’ in the formation of a British national identity in the eighteenth century is probably not as rich as many readers might think. (1) Indeed, the literature on French Anglophobia seems a little more sustained. (2) Semmel’s work, which looks at the impact of ...
1 day ago · Price: £79.99. Thomas Paine, the most widely read political thinker in the late 18th century, played a notable role in the American Revolution, in the development of popular radicalism in Britain, and in the French Revolution. Many of his works appeared in both English and French, and a few in other European languages, and were widely ...
