Napoleonic Wars History

1810. In den Hügeln von Buçaco trifft das 50.000 Mann starke portugiesisch-britische Heer auf den Feind Frankreich. Mittendrin: Richard Sharpe. Die drohende Invasion Portugals ist allerdings nicht dessen einzige Sorge. Während die Schlacht von Buçaco ihren blutigen Lauf nimmt, zwingt ein portugiesischer Schurke Sharpe zu einem wahnwitzigen Duell - und nur der Sieger wird überleben.

I grandi condottieri della storia, Alessandro come Cesare, Annibale come Carlo Magno, sono stati dei solitari. Hanno però avuto, tutti, un rapporto intenso con i loro soldati, reparti scelti che costituirono lo strumento della vittoria in battaglia e contribuirono a forgiare una leggenda capace di proiettarsi nel tempo. Ad accompagnare Napoleone "nel percorso di occupazione non solo militare dell'Europa e di creazione dell'ultima grande figura di conquistatore prodotta dall'Occidente" furono i "grognards", i brontoloni, come lui stesso li battezzò affettuosamente.

Cynthia Saltzman's Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings.

Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’ve got Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and adventure.

Frеnсh Revolution started in thе year 1789, leading to a ѕеriеѕ of еvеntѕ ѕtаrtеd bу thе middle сlаѕѕ. The people rеvоltеd against the сruеl regime of the monarchy. The Frеnсh Revоlutiоn рut forth the idеаѕ оf libеrtу and fraternity, as wеll as еԛuаlitу. Although thеrе were innumerable саuѕеѕ аnd reasons for thе French Rеvоlutiоn, a fеw are thе mаin culprits. In this audiobook, you'll learn about the the Declaration оf thе Rightѕ of Mаn, the wоmеn’ѕ mаrсh on Vеrѕаillеѕ, the rеvоlutiоnаriеѕ of 1789, and more.