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While in exile on the island of Saint Helena, Napoleon remarked to a loyal follower, “What a novel my life has been!” ...

King Louis XVIII had neither Napoleon’s charm nor his charisma. France had a constitutional monarchy now, but with royalists threatening to abolish the gains of the revolution, and the economy ...

It is a Palmerston fort, built when Britain feared the ambitions of Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III). Although the French had been our allies in the Crimean War, Napoleon III had seen Russia and ...

In The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon, Christy Pichichero “aims to bring war and military thought to their proper place in our understanding of ...