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The Napoleonic Wars provide the backdrop for The Emperor, The Victory, The Regency and The Campaigners, Volumes 11, 12, 13 and 14 respectively of The Morland Dynasty, a series of historical novels by the author Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. The Richard Bolitho series by Alexander Kent novels portray this period of history from a naval perspective.
Inspection of troops at Boulogne, 15 August 1804 Drop Redoubt, part of the Dover Western Heights complex. From 1803 to 1805 a new army of 200,000 men, known as the Armée des côtes de l'Océan (Army of the Ocean Coasts) or the Armée d'Angleterre (Army of England), was gathered and trained at camps at Boulogne, Bruges, and Montreuil.
Therefore, the British invested all the money and energy it could raise into the Napoleonic Wars. French ports were blockaded by the Royal Navy. [2] [3] After a relatively quiet pause from 1801 to 1803, war resumed in Europe when the British declared war on France and ended the uneasy peace maintained by the Treaty of Amiens.
The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill Books. Sørensen, Carl (1871). Kampen om Norge i Aarene 1813 og 1814. Vol. 2. Kjøbenhavn. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Thiers, Adolphe (1865). History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon. Lippincott. p. 573. Vaudoncourt, Guillaume de (1826).
Contemporary print advertising the Peace of Pressburg Interview Between Napoleon and Francis II after the Battle of Austerlitz by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812.The two Emperors agreed to an armistice that led on to the fuller negotiations at Pressburg.
Napoleon signs his abdication at Fontainebleau, 11 April 1814, by François Bouchot and Gaetano Ferri (1843). The Treaty of Fontainebleau was an agreement concluded in Fontainebleau, France, on 11 April 1814 between Napoleon and representatives of Austria, Russia and Prussia.
When the War of the Third Coalition broke out in 1805, with Russia, Austria and Great Britain on the one side and France on the other, Bavaria, Baden and Wurttemberg allied with Napoleon. After the victory at Austerlitz and the resultant Peace of Pressburg in 1805, Napoleon could significantly reassert his position in the German states.
Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 0-02-523670-9. Chandler, David. The Campaigns of Napoleon. Scribner, 2009. ISBN 9781439131039. Schels, J. B. "Die Kriegsereignisse in Italien vom 15 April bis 16 Mai 1796, mit dem Gefechte bei Lodi". Oesterreichische Militärische Zeitschrift Bd. 2; Bd. 4 (1825): 57–97, 195 ...