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Vor 5 Tagen · In a single day, Napoleon Bonaparte‘s Grande Armée decisively defeated the combined forces of Austria and Russia, altering the balance of power in Europe and cementing Napoleon‘s reputation as a military genius. But what made this battle so important, and how did it shape the course of the Napoleonic Wars and beyond? In this article, we ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Damit kam der Kaiser von Österreich der Sache wohl näher. Denn in der Schlacht bei Aspern am 21. und 22. Mai 1809 hatte Napoleon den Nimbus der Unbesiegbarkeit verloren.
Vor einem Tag · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Napoleon brought to completion a project dear to the hearts of the revolutionaries, the drafting of new law codes. The civil code was the most important of them because it institutionalized equality under the law (at least for adult men), guaranteed the abolition of feudalism, and, not least, gave the nation one single code of law replacing the hundreds in effect in 1789.
Vor 2 Tagen · A map of Europe in 1812 depicting French territory, French dependencies, and territories allied to Napoleonic France. This source is a part of the The Napoleonic Experience teaching module.
Vor 5 Tagen · The Rise of Napoleon and Romanticism Napoleon Bonaparte’s ascent to power in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with the dawn of the Romantic era in Europe. The French Revolution, with its ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, had unleashed a wave of social and political upheaval, igniting the passions and imaginations of writers, artists, and intellectuals across the ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Napoleon and the British. The literature on the role of the French as ‘other’ in the formation of a British national identity in the eighteenth century is probably not as rich as many readers might think. (1) Indeed, the literature on French Anglophobia seems a little more sustained. (2) Semmel’s work, which looks at the impact of ...
