For almost two decades, Napoleon Bonaparte was the most feared, and
revered, man in Europe. At the height of his power, the land under
his control stretched from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, and
encompassed most of Western Europe. The story of how a young
Corsican, who spoke French with a strange accent, became Emperor of
the French at the age of just thirty-three is a remarkable one. The
many fascinating objects brought together in this book detail not
only Napoleon's meteoric rise to power, but also his art of war and
that magnificent fighting force, the Imperial Guard, which grew
from a small personal bodyguard to the size of a small army. Some
of his great battles, such as Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena and Wagram,
are also explored, as is Napoleon's great Oriental adventure, which
saw him conquer Egypt. He took with him artists and scientists,
which led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the deciphering
of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Napoleon, however, took a step too far
when he marched into Russia. The vast distances and the weather
wrecked his army and he was never able to recover - and,
eventually, his enemies proved too strong. France was invaded and
he was compelled to abdicate. Napoleon was not finished, though,
and he returned from exile to lead France into war one more time,
only for his army to be beaten beyond all hope of recovery in the
muddy Flanders fields at Waterloo. In this engaging and hugely
informative book, the author takes us on a journey across
Napoleonic Europe to discover the places, people and objects that
tell the story of one man's life. It is a story of one of the most
turbulent eras in history, one that, to this day, still bears
Bonaparte's name. But his legacy lives on in the French legal and
social systems and he remains as enigmatic a figure today as he did
200 years ago.
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