Napoleonic Wars
- ISBN-10
- 0233005897
- ISBN-13
- 9780233005898
- Series
- Napoleonic Wars
- Category
- France
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-07
- Author
- Richard Holmes
Description
Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Napoleon's birth.Holmes relives Napoleon's life and times in this extraordinary period byexamining letters, military maps, reports, proclamations, ship's logs andcoded messages, which were previously filed away or exhibited inarchives in Europe.Napoleon was a charismatic and astute military leader who built anempire in a series of astounding campaigns from 1796 to 1812, inwhich he won many of the most famous battles of all time - thePyramids, Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram and Borodino. At theheight of his powers he had transformed France's administrative,educational and legal systems, and most of the continent of Europewas under his control, from Portugal to Moscow. He was eventuallybrought down by the combined forces of many nations, but hisinfluence on the times was so great that he has come to define a periodin history.
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