Revolutionary Period:
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| DATE |
EVENT
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STORIES AND
PICTURES |
| 1769 |
Napoleon born in Ajaccio, Corsica |
| 1792-1797 |
War of the First Coalition
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Napoleon at the Bridge at Arcole (print after Gros)
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| 1792 April 20 |
France declares war on Austria, Prussia &
Piedmont: Beginning of the War of the First
Coalition
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| 1792 Sept. 20 |
Battle of Valmy (France vs Prussia/Austria) French Victory
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| 1793 Jan. 21 |
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette guillotined
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| 1793 Feb. 1 |
France declares war on England & Holland
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| 1793 Feb. 7 |
France declares war on Spain
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| 1793 Mar. 22 |
Roman Empire declares war on France
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| 1793 July 13 |
Death of Marat
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| 1793 |
Royalist forces call on Britain's forces at Toulon
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| 1793 Aug.-Dec. |
Siege of Toulon (France vs England/Spain) French Victory
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1793-1821
Dumas' Napoleon Bonaparte; or 30 Years of French History Drama in 6 Acts, and 23 Tableaux
[F]
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| 1793 Dec. 22 |
Bonaparte, age 24, promoted to Brigadier General
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| 1795-1799 |
Rise of Napoleon
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| 1795 Oct. 26 |
Napoleon named General en chef de l'armée de
l'Intérieur; age 26
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| 1796-1797 |
First Italian Campaign
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1796-1800
Edwards' "A Service of Danger"
[F]
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| 1796 |
Napoleon appointed Commander in Chief of the Army in Italy
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| 1796 March 9 |
Napoleon marries Josephine
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| 1796 May 10 |
Battle of Lodi (France vs Austria) French victory
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| 1796 |
France takes Control of Lombardia;
War at sea with Britain continues
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| 1797 Feb. 14 |
Naval Battle of Cape St. Vincent —
Horation Nelson and British Royal Navy victory
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| 1797 |
British Royal Navy fleet mutinies: Spithead and the Nore
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1797
Melville's Billy Bud
[F] |
| 1797 Oct. |
Naval Battle of Camperdown —
British Royal Navy victory
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| 1797 Summer |
Napoleon's conquest of Venice
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| 1797 Oct. 17 |
Peace of Campo Formio (England remains in
opposition to France): End of the 1st
Coalition and the 1st Italian Campaign
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| 1798-1801 |
Egyptian and Syrian Campaign:
Malta occupied, Alexandria and the Nile delta occupied
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1798-1801
Balzac's "Passion in the Desert"
[F]
1798-1804
Poore's The Mameluke
[F]
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| 1798 July 21 |
Battle of the Pyramids (Embabeh) (France vs Mamelukes) French victory
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Napoleon in Egypt by Job |
| 1798 Aug. 1 |
Naval Battle of Abukir Bay (Battle of the Nile)
(France vs. England) English victory;
Nelson's fleet destroys the French squadron;
Turkey declares war on France
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| 1799-1802 |
War of the Second Coalition
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| 1799 |
French soldiers discover the Rosetta Stone
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| 1799 Spring |
Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Naples and Sweden
form an alliance against France;
French armies defeated in Italy;
French victories in Switzerland and Holland;
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| 1799 Dec. 12 |
Napoleon imposes military dictatorship in France
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Consular Republic: (1799-1802)
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| 1799-1800 |
Napoleon reorganizes and prepares for attack on Austria;
Allies drop out of anti-French coalition;
Napoleon takes troops across Alps at the Great St.
Bernard Pass in snow
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| 1800-1802 |
Second Italian Campaign
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| 1800 June 14 |
Battle of Marengo (France vs Austria) French victory;
gives Po Valley to France
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| 1800 Dec. 3 |
Battle of Hohenlinden (France vs. Austria) French victory in Bavaria under General Moreau
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| 1800 Dec. 24 |
Attempt to assassinate Napoleon in rue Saint-Nicaise
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| 1801 Feb. 9 |
Treaty of Lunéville gives France rights to the
Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees
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1801-1817
Conrad's "The Duel"
[F]
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| 1801 |
Peace on Continent, however Great Britain still
remains at war with France
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1800-1801
Hardy's "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
[F]
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| 1801 Oct. |
Preliminaries of Amiens signed
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1801 Oct.
Doyle's "Foreign Office Romance"
[F]
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| 1802 March 27 |
Peace of Amiens signed between Great Britain and
France: End of the 2nd Coalition and of the 2nd Italian
Campaign
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1802-1817
Thackeray's Major Gahagan
[F]
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| 1802-1803 |
Napoleon intends to reestablish French colonies
(San Domingo, Louisiana and possibly Egypt);
France begins advancing into the Swiss Confederation and Germany
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1802 Summer(?)
Doyle's "The Marriage of Brigadier Gérard"
[F]
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| 1803 May |
Britain declares war
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1803-1806
Balzac's An Historical Business (Une Ténébreuse Affaire)
[F]
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Grand Empire (1804-1815)
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| 1803-1805 |
Napoleon prepares for invasion of Great Britain,
but French fleet still inferior;
Pulls Spain into war against Great Britain
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1804-1805
Doyle's Uncle Bernac
[F]
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1804
April 7 |
Death of Pichegru
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1804 April
Camp and Court on Pichegru
[N]
post-1804
Brontë's "Napoleon and the Spectre"
[F]
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| 1804 May 28 |
Empire Proclaimed
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1804
Hardy's "The Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four"
[F]
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| 1804 Dec. 2 |
Napoleon crowned Emperor by Pope Pius VII
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Napoleon on the Imperial Throne (print after Ingres)
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| 1804 Dec. |
Spain declares war on Great Britain, joining forces with France
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Officer of the Cuirassiers, 9th Regiment |
| 1805 |
War of the Third Coalition
(Alliance between England, Russia and Austria)
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1805
Q's "Captain Dick and Captain Jacka"
[F]
Q's "Ye Sexes, Give Ear!"
[F]
Conrad's The Rover
[F]
Marryat's Midshipman Easy (c. 1805)
[F]
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| 1805 Oct. 21 |
Battle of Trafalgar (France/Spain vs England) English victory;
Villeneuve attacks Nelson off Cape Trafalgar, Nelson dies
Entire Franco-Spanish fleet destroyed
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1803-1805
Besant's 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay
[F]
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| 1805 Nov. 13 |
Napoleon enters Vienna
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Cuirassier of the 2nd Regiment |
| 1805 Dec. 2 |
Battle of Austerlitz (Battle of the Three Emperors)
France vs Austria/Russia; Napoleon's greatest victory
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c. 1805-1816 (?)
Pushkin's "The Shot"
[F]
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| 1805 Dec. 26 |
Treaty of Pressburg: Austria renounces all
control in Italy, cedes Veneto and Dalmatia:
End of 3rd Coalition;
Bourbons dethroned in Kingdom of Naples
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| 1805 |
Napoleon proclaimed King of Italy; Retakes Venice
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| 1806-1807 |
War of the Fourth Coalition
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Drum major of the Imperial Guard, c. 1806-12 |
| 1806 |
Prussia enters war against France
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| 1806 Oct. 14 |
Battle of Auerstädt (France vs Prussia) French victory
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| 1806 Oct. 14 |
Battle of Jena (France vs. Prussia) French victory
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| 1807 Feb. 7-8 |
Battle of Preussisch-Eylau (France vs Russia) French victory
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1807 Feb.
Doyle's "How the Brigadier came to the Castle of Gloom"
[F]
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| 1807 June 13-14 |
Battle of Friedland (France vs Russia) French victory
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| 1807 July 7-9 |
Alexander I tires of war, signs treaty at Tilsit
giving Napoleon western Europe: End of
4th Coalition
Napoleon forbids all trade with Great Britain:
Blockades in place
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1807 Sept./Oct.
Doyle's "How the Brigadier slew the Brothers of Ajaccio"
[F]
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| 1807-1814 |
Spanish (Peninsular) Campaign:
Insurrections in Spain after Napoleon places Joseph Bonaparte
on Spanish throne
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1807-1814
Q's "Three Men of Badajoz"
[F]
Maxwell's "Storm of Badajoz"
[F]
Lever's "Patrick's Day in the Peninsula"
& "Fuentes d'Onoro"
[F]
Thackeray's "Phil Fogarty"
[F]
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| 1809 |
Iberian peninsula becomes a bridgehead for
British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later
Duke of Wellington)
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Balzac's "El Verdugo"
[F]
1809
Q's "Rain of Dollars"
[F]
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| 1809 |
War against Austria of 1809
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| 1809 Feb. 19 |
Zaragoza surrenders
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Doyle's
"How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa"
[F]
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| 1809 July 5-6 |
Battle at Wagram (France vs Austria) French victory
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Napoleon at Wagram by Horace Vernet
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| 1809 July 28 |
Battle of Talavera (France vs England/Spain)
English/Spanish victory (Wellington)
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| 1809 Oct. 14 |
Treaty of Schönbrunn: End of War against Austria of 1809
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| 1809 Dec. 15 |
Napoleon announces his intention to divorce Empress Josephine
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| 1809-1810 |
Napoleon at the zenith of power: Emperor of French, King of
Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine,
Mediator of the Swiss Confederation.
His brothers reigned throughout the
Empire -- Joseph in Madrid, Louis in Holland, Jerome in
Westphalia, and his brother-in-law, Joachim Murat in
Naples. Alexander I is allied with Napoleon; soon the
Hapsburgs give Archduchess Marie-Louis as his wife.
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1810-1811
Orczy's The Man in Grey
[F]
Hyne's The Escape Agents
[F]
Between 1810 July and 1811 March
Doyle's "The Crime of the Brigadier"
[F]
1810
Sabatini's The Snare
[F]
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| 1810 July 1-2 |
Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (Marshal Ney); French capture
Ciudad Rodrigo from Britain
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1810 July 1-2
Doyle's "How the Brigadier held the King"
[F]
1810 Aug. 10
Doyle's "How the King held the Brigadier"
[F]
1810 September
Doyle's
"How the Brigadier Triumphed in England"
[F]
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| 1811 March 5 |
Messena's retreat from Santarem
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1811-1812
Q's The Lamp and the Guitar
[F]
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| 1811 March 20 |
Napoleon's heir is born
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1811 May
Doyle's
"How the Brigadier Saved the Army"
[F]
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| 1811 Dec. 25-- |
Siege of Valencia (France vs. Spain) French victory
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Collapse of Empire (1812-1815)
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| 1812 |
Russian Campaign:
Alexander I breaks ties with Napoleon
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1812
Tolstoy's War and Peace
[F]
Balzac's "Napoleon of the People"
(from The Country Doctor)
[F]
Russian Folktale "Napoleonder"
[F]
1812-1819
Balzac's "Farewell"
[F]
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| 1812 |
U.S. declares war on Britain (War of 1812)
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| 1812 July 22 |
Battle of Salamanca (France vs England/Portugal) English/Portuguese victory
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| 1812 Aug. 16-17 |
Battle of Smolensk (France vs Russia) French victory
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| 1812 Sept. 7 |
Battle at Borodino (Battle at the Moskova) (France vs Russia) French victory
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| 1812 Sept. 14 |
Napoleon enters Moscow
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| 1812 Oct. 19 |
Napoleon orders retreat;
Russian campaign ends in disaster;
By December the Grand Army no longer exists
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1812-1813
Erckmann-Chatrian's L'Histoire d'un Conscrit de 1813
[F]
1812 November
Doyle's
"How the Brigadier Rode to Minsk"
[F]
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| 1813 |
German Campaign
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1813 March
Doyle's "How the Brigadier played for a Kingdom"
[F]
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| 1813 May 20-21 |
Battle of Bautzen (France vs Russia/Prussia) French victory
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1813-1830s
Thackeray's Vanity Fair
[F]
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| 1813 June 21 |
Battle of Vitoria (France vs England/Portugal)
English/Portugese victory
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1813-1814
Stevenson's St. Ives
[F]
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| 1813 July-Sept. |
Siege of San Sebastian
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| 1813 Oct. 16-19 |
Battle of Leipzig (Battle of the Nations)
(France vs Allies) French army torn to shreds;
French armies retreat across the Rhine;
French armies retreat in Spain and Italy
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1813 Nov. - 1859
E. About's The Man with the Broken Ear
[F]
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| 1814 Jan. |
French Campaign
-- France attacked on all frontiers
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1814-1815
Dumas' The Barricade at Clicy; A Military Drama in 5 Acts and 14 Scenes
[F]
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| 1814 March 31 |
Allies enter Paris
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1814 March
Doyle's "The Medal of Brigadier Gérard"
[F]
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| 1814 Apr. 6 |
Treaty of Fontainebleau: Napoleon abdicates, departs for Elba;
Louis XVI's brother, Louis XVIII installed
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| 1814 May 30 |
1st Peace of Paris
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| 1814 Oct.30-1815 June 9 |
Congress of Vienna
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| 1815 Jan. 8 |
British army attacks New Orleans (U.S. victory; End of
the War of 1812
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ca.1814-1815
Jane Austen's Persuasion[F]
Feb. 1815-1838
Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
[F]
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| 1815 Mar. 20 |
The Hundred Days: Napoleon returns to Paris and resumes control
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| 1815 |
Belgian Campaign
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| 1815 June 15 |
Duchess of Richmond's Ball in Brussels on the eve of
Waterloo
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| 1815 June 16 |
Battle of Ligny (France vs Prussia) French victory
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| 1815 June 18 |
Battle of Waterloo (la Belle Alliance/Mont St. Jean);
Napoleon in sight of victory when Prussians, under
Gebhard Lebercht von Blücher arrives to reinforce
Wellington
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1815 June 18
Parry's "Waterloo"
[N]
Thackeray's "Waterloo"
[N]
Doyle's The Great Shadow
[F]
G. Macaulay Trevelyan's "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo"
[N]
Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme
[F]
Doyle's The Straggler of '15 [F] and the play based on the short story,
Waterloo[F]
Doyle's
"How the Brigadier Bore Himself at Waterloo: The Story of the Forest Inn" & "The Story of the Nine Prussian Horsemen"
[F]
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| 1815 June 22 |
Napoleon abdicates and exiled to Sainte Helena in South Atlantic
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| 1815 Sept. 26 |
Holy Alliance (Russia, Austria and Prussia)
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Hussar Officer of the 2nd Regiment, 1819 |
| 1815 Nov. 20 |
2nd Peace of Paris
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After Waterloo
Le Fanu's "The Room at the Dragon Volant"
[F]
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| 1815 Dec. 7 |
Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen, Marshal Prince of the
Moskowa, executed in Luxembourg
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| 1821 May 5 |
Death of Napoleon
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1821 May 5
Doyle's
"The Last Adventure of The Brigadier"
[F]
1820's-1848
Tolstoy's "Two Hussars"
[F]
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| 1840 |
Napoleon's remains entombed at La Museé de
l'Armée in Paris
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1840 Dec
Thackeray's "Second Funeral"
[N]
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Undated:
Court and Camp texts
[N]
Doyle's "Duello in France"
[N]
excerpts from Doyle's Through the Magic Door
[N]
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