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Napoleonic Era: A Research Guide
Military History Resources
Campaigns and Battles
France’s Marshals
Military Costume
Campaigns and Battles
Adkin, Mark. The Waterloo Companion. London: Aurum Press, 2001. (JFF
02-378)
An exhaustive compendium of data about this decisive battle
for the armchair military history enthusiast. Reviews such significant
factors
as the battle orders, battlefield itself, infantry, cavalry, and
artillery actions, battle highlights, and aftermath events. A
section on myths
and controversies reveals just how variable the battle’s outcome
could have been.
Esdaile, Charles J. The French Wars, 1792-1815. London; New York: Routledge,
2001. (JFD 01-16265)
Concise guide to the War of the First Coalition,
1792-1797, the War of the Second Coalition, 1798-1801, and the Napoleonic
Wars.
Glover, Michael. The Peninsular War, 1807-1814: A Concise Military
History. London: Penguin, 2001, c.1974. (JFD 02-3638)
Tracks the
stages of warfare in the Spanish Peninsula from the time of the arrival
of British troops to the last drive into southern France.
Lefebvre, Georges. Napoleon; From Tilsit to Waterloo, 1807-1815. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1969. (JFD 94-4474)
Documents
major battles during a major transition period in the First Empire’s
fortunes, tracing the arc from triumph to decline.
Neillands, Robin. Wellington and Napoleon: Clash of Arms 1807-1815.
London: John Murray, 1994. (JFE 94-16885)
Compares the generalship
tactics and styles of Napoleon and the English commander, Wellington.
Rothenberg, Gunther. The Napoleonic Wars. London: Cassell, 1999. (JFF
00-323)
Authoritative evaluation and documentation on Napoleon’s
military leadership.
Schom, Alan. Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle 1803-1805. London: Joseph,
1990. (JFE 90-7408)
Explains the political and military circumstances
leading to the major sea battle at Trafalgar in 1805, an engagement
that brought crippling
defeat to the French Fleet and a heroic death to England’s beloved
Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Zamoyski, Adam. 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow. London:
HarperCollins, 2004. (JFE 04-8489)
A detailed account of Napoleon’s campaign against Russia in the
fall of 1812, offering new evaluations of the Russian army response
and the circumstances whereby Napoleon’s troops were defeated
and destroyed.
France’s Marshals
Delderfield, R.F. The March of the Twenty-six; The Story of Napoleon’s
Marshals. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. (D-13 8177)
A portrait
of the generals whom Napoleon appointed to lead his armies and stage
his military campaigns.
Palmer, Alan. Bernadotte: Napoleon’s Marshal, Sweden’s
King. London: John Murray, 1990. (JFE 91-3440)
A biography of one
of Napoleon’s most colorful Marshals—and
rivals—and the man who was chosen by Sweden to replace their previously
hereditary ruling dynasty. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (1763-1844)
started his career as a soldier in the army of Louis XVI and ended as
Carl XIV
Johan, King of Sweden.
Young, Peter. Napoleon’s Marshals. Reading: Osprey Publishing,
1973. (JFE 74-1214)
Authoritative guide to the dress, ornamentation
and field practices of Napoleon ’s leading generals.
Military Costume
Chartrand, Rene. Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Army. London; Herndon,
VA: Brassey’s, 1996. (JFG 97-128)
Part of the Brassey’s History
of Uniforms series, with information on regimental dress, details, and
colors for the French army.
Fletcher, Ian. Napoleonic Wars: Wellington’s Army. London; Herndon,
VA: Brassey’s, 1996. (JFG 97-252)
Describes uniforms, details,
and colors for the English army that opposed Napoleon.
Pericoli, Ugo. 1815: The Armies at Waterloo. New York: Scribner, 1973.
(JFF 74-957)
Information on the military dress of Napoleon’s remaining
Grande Armee, along with those of the English and their
