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10 Jan 2021
I agree, lots of surprises here. ๐ฆ Had such great fun, thanks @LandOfHistory and @JSC1812 for inviting me to join.
10 Jan 2021
My friends! It is the new episode of the Napoleonic Quiz with @Napoleonic_Imp! @ThatchGer1 @LondonSE4 @cturner72 make this a show that was full of surprises. Banish the lockdown blues with some historical shenanigans.
The 2020 Napoleonic Quiz Ep 3. youtu.be/3qq6Z5O6P9w
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Today marks the 235th anniversary of The Storming of the Bastille in Paris (1789).
Though the Bastille only held seven inmates at the time of its storming, it was seen by many as a symbol of royalist power in Paris. Thus, its fall was a major flashpoint in the French Revolution
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Today marks the anniversary of the signing of the Franco-Prussian part of the Treaty of Tilsit (1807).
While Napoleon had been generous in the Franco-Russian part of the treaty (signed just two days earlier), the Prussians were treated far more harshly.
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29 May 2024
Josรฉphine de Beauharnais died at Malmaison #onthisday 1814, a few days after catching a chill while on a walk with Emperor Alexander I of Russia. In 1805 Pierre Paul Prud'hon portrayed the empress sitting in her gardens, where she assembled an extraordinary collection of plants.
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AN UPCOMING EVENT
You're warmly invited to join us on Sunday 19th May for an online event:
Wellingtonโs Law: The Battle for Military Justice in the Peninsular War
Speaker: @ZwhiteHistory
More information & tickets via the link below.
See you there!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wellingtoโฆ
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9 May 2024
Individuata nei capelli di Beethoven la causa della sua sorditร . Studio Usa, tutta colpa del piombo dentro il vino a buon mercato che il musicista e compositore beveva #ANSA
ansa.it/sito/notizie/culturaโฆ
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5 May 2024
Baron Charles Steuben explanatory sketch and painting of the Death of Napoleon, #OnThisDay 1821
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20 Apr 2024
โAdieu, my children. Would that I could press you all to my heart.โ
#OTD 1814 Napoleon bid farewell to soldiers of the Old Guard at Fontainebleau Palace. Some wept, and Napoleon, visibly moved, gave a final embrace to General Petit and kissed the eagle standard before departing.
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The Third War & Peace in the Age of Napoleon Conference is coming!
Co-hosted with & at York St Joh Uni, 5th-7th September 2024
20 minute papers or full panels welcome from anyone with a fresh perspective on social, political, military aspects of the period
Please R/T widely
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8 Jan 2024
It is a matter of fact that everything is temporary, including success...
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3 Dec 2023
"Defibrillators are available to our historian friends" - by Soulcie #NapoleonMovie
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2 Dec 2023
"When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were aglow with dazzling light... He drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin..." Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace. #onthisday 1805 #Austerlitz
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28 Nov 2023
For the Italian Huffington post, Ridley Scott made the worst film about Napoleon. But also the best: "The Duelists", 46 years ago...
huffingtonpost.it/blog/2023/โฆ
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23 Nov 2023
Such a pity Kubrick gave up his Napoleon after the release of Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo and for lack of funding. ๐
22 Nov 2023
Ridley Scott says โthere are 10,000 books about Napoleon, and theyโre full of both truth and conjecture. But I left reading the books to the poor bastard who had to write the screenplay.โ
(Source: trib.al/EE5mQgu)
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19 Nov 2023
This afternoon at Fontainebleau, after a long bidding battle, the hat of #Napoleon I was sold by @OsenatSVV for โฌ1,932,000 (sale of the Jean Louis Noisiez Collection).
19 Nov 2023
Aprรจs une longue bataille d'enchรจres, le chapeau de l'empereur Napolรฉon Ier a trouvรฉ preneur pour 1 932 000 โฌ, lors de la dispersion de la Collection Jean Louis Noisiez cet aprรจs-midi ร Fontainebleau ๐
Il s'agit d'un record mondial pour un chapeau de Napolรฉon Ier !
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16 Nov 2023
This reminds me of a fellow student, who, when asked about The Ash Wednesday supper (La cena de le Ceneri) by Giordano Bruno, told the philosophy teacher: "I don't know, I wasn't there" ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Ridley Scott has resorted to that time-dishonoured and lamest excuse for getting his history wrong in his Napoleon film. Telling people 'you can't know because you weren't there' negates the whole pursuit of historical knowledge, and basically gives you a pass to make it all up.
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