http://www.metafilter.com/tags/NapoleonicWars Posts tagged with 'NapoleonicWars' at MetaFilter. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:26:15 -0800 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:26:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/80831/Napoleonic%2DWars%2Dat%2Dthe%2DEuropean%2DLibrary <a href="http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/napoleonic_wars/index.HTML">To go, or not to go? that is the question;--/Whether 'tis better for my views to suffer/The ease and quiet of yon hated rival,/Or to take arms against the haughty people,/And by invading end them?</a> The Napoleonic Wars, in word, image and map, at the European Library. A "graphic novel" of the <a href="http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/napoleonic_wars/images/Specials/_large/frnw06_l.jpg">death of General Moreau during the Russian campaign</a>.<br>The <a href="http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/napoleonic_wars/images/wars/_large/ennw15_l.jpg">retreat from Moscow</a>.<br>Pitt and Napoleon dividing the world like a <a href="http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/napoleonic_wars/images/Specials/_large/ennw07_l.jpg">giant pudding</a>.<br><a href="http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/napoleonic_wars/images/portraits/_large/ennw03_l.jpg">Botero's Napoleon</a> (not really).<br>A map and account of the <a href="http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/napoleonic_wars/images/maps/_large/ennw27_l.jpg">Waterloo Campaign</a>.<br>An <a href="http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/napoleonic_wars/images/Specials/_large/ennw13_l.jpg">incredible Russian poster</a> from 1914. <br><br>(It's not in the exhibition as far as I can see, but it should be, the Charles Minard infographic of the <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/graphics/poster_OrigMinard.gif">Russian Campaign</a>.) tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.80831 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:26:15 -0800 europe europeanlibrary history napoleon napoleonicwars russiancampaign OmieWise http://www.metafilter.com/77100/Well%2Dwe%2Dwill%2Dwrite%2Dour%2Dmemoirs The <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/index.html">Napoleon Series</a> has been collecting Napoleonic scholarship since 1995. Its monstrously replete archive includes articles on <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/scholarship98/c_jews98.html">Napoleon's role in Jewish emancipation</a>, <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/scholarship98/c_institute.html">the Institute of Egypt</a> and its investigation of <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/miscellaneous/c_rosetta.html">the Rosetta Stone</a>, <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/BritishGenerals/c_Britishgenerals1.html">obscure British generals</a>, <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/scholarship98/c_clarke.html">the Malet Conspiracy</a>, and the never realized <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/diplomatic/frenchforeign/c_frenchna3.html">North American Empire</a>; <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_russianarchives.html">memoirs</a> from the Russian Archives; and a massive collection of <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/c_maps.html">maps</a> and <a href="http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/c_virtual.html">battlefield tours</a>. </http> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.77100 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:55:17 -0800 France FrenchHistory History MilitaryHistory Napoleon Napoleonana NapoleonBonaparte NapoleonicWars Scholarship Iridic