The Napoleon Series: What's New?


15 March

In Steve Brown's British Cavalry Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815:

14th Light Dragoons

Roberto Scattolin tells the story of how one Italian officer's nationalism was in conflict with the French Empire in 1809 in:

The Memorie Zucchi: an Extrapolation of the 1809 Italian Campaign

In Ray Foster's Notes on Wellington’s Peninsular Regiments:

37th Foot
38th Foot

39th Foot

In Greg Gorsuch's translatiion Lessons on 1807: Maneuvers of Eylau and Friedland:

Lessons on 1807: Maneuvers of Eylau and Friedland Part III

In Enrico Acerbi's The Austrian Imperial-Royal Army (Kaiserliche-Königliche Heer) 1805 – 1809

The Lost Districts

Two hundred years ago, Napoleon married the Austrian princess Marie-Louise by proxy:

11 mars 1810: Napoléon épouse Marie-Louise par procuration (in French)

Gareth Glover makes several changes in Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call

Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call: Corrections
Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call: Additions

We closed with a review of Gareth Glover's The Waterloo Archive Volume I: British Sources

28 February

In Enrico Acerbi's The Austrian Imperial-Royal Army (Kaiserliche-Königliche Heer) 1805 – 1809

(In)felix Austria Essay on the Austrian Army 1805-1809

More generals from Ron McGuigan in his British Generals of the Napoleonic Wars  1793-1815:

Alured Clarke
Eyre Coote

In Ray Foster's Notes on Wellington’s Peninsular Regiments:

27th Foot
28th Foot
29th Foot

Steve Brown provides a List of British Officers to Whom His Majesty Has Granted Honorary Crosses, Medals, Etc.  

In Greg Gorsuch's translatiion Lessons on 1807: Maneuvers of Eylau and Friedland:

Lessons on 1807: Maneuvers of Eylau and Friedland Part II

Gabriel Vital-Durand looks at the British expedition to Walcheren in Eté 1809 – Le désastre de l’île de Walcheren (Zélande) (in French)

Gareth Glover makes several changes in Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call

Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call: Corrections
Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call: Additions

We close with a review of A Waterloo Hero: the Reminiscences of Friedrich Lindau

15 February

Greg Gorsuch has started translating a 19th Century study on the French Cavalry in the 1807 Campaign in Poland:

Lessons on 1807: Maneuvers of Eylau and Friedland

Randy Jensen examines Napoleon's good luck charm in:

Napoleon's Talisman

A new study by Enrico Acerbi: The Austrian Imperial-Royal Army (Kaiserliche-Königliche Heer) 1805 – 1809

A Dictionary of K.K. Austrian Regimental Positions and Ranks

In Ray Foster's Notes on Wellington’s Peninsular Regiments:

23rd Foot
24th Foot
26th Foot

Virgilio Ilari and Piero Crociani update their study on The Italian Military in the Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815:

Conscription in the Italian Annexed Departments (in Italian)

Tim Reese updates his article on the French infantry with new artwork in:

Uniforms of the French Line Infantry: 1804 - 1812

Gareth Glover makes several changes in Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call

Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call: Corrections
Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call: Additions

31 January

After 35 chapters and 212 images, Greg Gorsuch finishes translation of Marco de Saint-Hilaire's Popular History of Napoleon!

Epilogue
Napoleon's Last Will and Testament

In Ray Foster's Notes on Wellington’s Peninsular Regiments:

11th Foot
14th Foot
20th Foot

In Steve Brown's British Cavalry Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815:

Royal Regiment of Horse Guards

In Ron McGuigan's British Generals of the Napoleonic Wars  1793-1815:

John Pitt 2nd Earl of Chatham

Tim Reese updates his article on the French hussars with new artwork in:

Uniforms of the French Hussars: 1804 - 1813

Gareth Glover corrects several items in Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call: Corrections

Virgilio Ilari and Piero Crociani update their study on the Italian navy:

Marine Italiane Del 1792-1815

15 January

As we start our third decade of being online, this update truly shows how international the Napoleon Series is in scope. We have contibutors from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States!

In another first for the Napoleon Series, Gareth Glover provides five campaign sketches drawn by the famous British artillery officer, Alexander Mercer. These illustrations have never been published before!

The Art of Alexander Cavalie Mercer

From Bas de Groot, of the Netherlands, we have The 124eme Regiment Infanterie de Ligne in Russia in 1812: Maps

From Steve Brown: The Training Ground: Regimental Services of British Army Generals 1793-1815

Ignacio Paz looks at one of the causes of the French failure in Spain:

1808, the Point of Implosion for the Napoleonic Empire: How the Peninsular War shows that the Empire’s Policy of Enlargement Lacked a Political and Cultural Relativism

In Ron McGuigan's British Generals of the Napoleonic Wars  1793-1815:

William Schaw Cathcart
Richard Ford Cavan

In Greg Gorsuch's translation of Marco de Saint-Hilaire's Popular History of Napoleon, Napoleon is sent to Saint Helena.

Chapter 4 of Book 6

More regiments in Ray Foster's Notes on Wellington’s Peninsular Regiments:

7th Foot
9th Foot

Rui Moura, from Portugal, updates the Spreadsheet to Captain Lionel S. Challis's Peninsula Roll Call

The year 2009 was also an incredible year for the Napoleon Series. It continues to grow at an incredible rate. We now have over 90,000 articles, reviews, images, maps, and other items. All are free to the public and the number of daily visitors is immense. We average over 75,000 files downloaded per day, while our monthly downloads average about 2 million! On any given day, we have over 1.1 gb of data downloaded! The forum continues to be the place for exchanging of ideas, with over 15,000 messages posted last year.

The Napoleon Series is truly a team effort. I first would like to thank all of those who contributed articles and material to our twice monthly update. These articles are the heart of the Series and are what make it the great place that it is! There were 32 different contributors, from a variety of countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S.! If I forgot someone, please accept my apologies in advance!

I would be amiss if I did not publicly thank all of the editors who are actively involved in the day-to-day operations of the Series. In alphabetical order are:

Tony Broughton, the Research Editor. He has always been there to answer even the most obscure question! Few are aware, that many of the images that we use to illustrate the articles come from his private collection!

Donald Graves, Editor. He often served as a sounding board for me, providing me with much welcomed advice.

John R. Grodzinski, Editor of the War of 1812 Magazine. He has done an incredible job getting the magazine up and running.

Tom Holmberg, the Reviews Editor. Every review published on the Series is edited by Tom first! .

David Markham, Editor and Liaison with the International Napoleonic Society. David provides us with much valuable support and coordination with our sponsor.

Our Forum Moderators and Editors: Howie Muir and David McCracken. The two of them have done a superb job keeping the Series reputation for having the most scholarly and civil of all Forums on the internet!

Alexander Mikaberidze, Editor. Alex is our resident expert on the Russian Army of our era and continues to bring to light material that had not been previously published in English.

I would like to close with by thanking those who contributed much time and effort judging our writing contest:

Dr. John G. Gallaher, Colonel Jack Gill, J. David Markham, and Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze who were the judges in our annual writing contest!

Interested in Contributing a Paper to the Napoleon Series? We have developed a writing and style guide! This guide was developed based on eleven years of editing over 4,000 papers that have been submitted to the Series. Although most papers follow the guide in spirit, almost all have minor problems. This in itself may not appear to be a major issue, however we publish over 1,000 new items a year. We spend hundreds of hours every year formatting these papers to ensure that all contributions published by the Napoleon Series will have a uniform look. Much of the guide is common sense and if followed by the author, will reduce the amount of time needed to edit a paper. For example, html can not handle Tabs or columns. If the author uses either in his paper, all must be removed. So the guide tells the writer what to use instead of Tabs and columns.  

All papers must follow these guidelines, unless given prior approval by the editor.  Those papers that do not follow these  guidelines will be sent back to the author for revision.

This guide is not intended to limit the content of any contribution; rather it is designed to aid authors in properly formatting their articles and to reduce the amount of time spent editing the articles.

A copy of the guide can be found at: Napoleon Series Format and Style Guide

Enjoy!!

Robert Burnham
Editor-in-Chief
The Napoleon Series

 



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