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5 days ago · Ronald Fraser’s Napoleon’s Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War is an important contribution to a growing field of history.His focus on Patriot Spain’s war effort against Napoleon’s 1808–14 occupation is eminently sensible: this area over the past few years has been subject to rigorous debate in the scholarly community, and Fraser’s contribution excites us ...
1 day ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a period of ...
- 18 May 1803 – 20 November 1815, (12 years, 5 months and 4 weeks)
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1 day ago · AN ASSESSMENT OF NAPOLEON’S ATTEMPTS TO MAKE HIS CAMPAIGNS SELF-FINANCING Pierre Branda* “You must make it your guiding principle that the war must feed the war,” Such was Napoleon’s recommendation to Marshal Soult when he appointed the latter général en chef of the Army of the South in Spain. 1 The Duke of Dalmatia was also told to ...
2 days ago · e. The French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was a Napoleonic campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, executed by Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon proclaimed to "defend French trade interests" and to establish "scientific enterprise" in the region. It was the primary purpose of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, which ...
- 1 July 1798 – 2 September 1801, (3 years, 2 months and 1 day)
- Anglo-Ottoman victory, End of Mamluk rule in Egypt, Formal end of the Franco-Ottoman alliance, Failure of French expedition to Syria, Capitulation of French administration in Egypt
2 days ago · Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes. Women are nothing but machines for producing children. The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. War is the business of barbarians. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
