Napoleon wins probably his greatest battle, now known as Austerlitz. It showed his mastery of tactics as well as the common touch he had when encouraging his soldiers. He didn’t then know that Nelson had destroyed his fleet at Trafalgar, giving Britain complete command of the seas. For all his military genius, Napoleon didn’t understand sea warfare at all. Because the book is about Napoleon and not Nelson, Roberts doesn’t dwell on Trafalgar except to say that when he was on St Helena, Napoleon said, ‘what Nelson had…was of nature.’, which I suppose is another way of saying he was a genius.
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The Napoleon Diaries 4
Napoleon wins probably his greatest battle, now known as Austerlitz. It showed his mastery of tactics as well as the common touch he had when encouraging his soldiers. He didn’t then know that Nelson had destroyed his fleet at Trafalgar, giving Britain complete command of the seas. For all his military genius, Napoleon didn’t understand sea warfare at all. Because the book is about Napoleon and not Nelson, Roberts doesn’t dwell on Trafalgar except to say that when he was on St Helena, Napoleon said, ‘what Nelson had…was of nature.’, which I suppose is another way of saying he was a genius.
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Georgette Heyer and the battle of Waterloo
I can just imagine some people sneering at the very idea of reading a book by a romantic novelist as a painless way of learning about Waterloo.…
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The Napoleon Diaries 15
Nearly done! So, Napoleon: hero or villain? I’d been told by a friend (disapprovingly) that Andrew Roberts concludes that he was a hero. Not quite,…
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The Napoleon Diaries 14
Astonishingly, the day after Waterloo, Napoleon writes to his brother Joseph that all is not lost and begins working out how many troops he could…
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