Word: napoleonism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...continuities, yes, and images too. ... How good and fine an artist he is may possibly be another matter. . . . I like both his bathtubs and his debauches, for the sufficient (I hope technical) reason that they are the biggest and the best in cinema. No man short of a Napoleon of movie would dare them, and DeMille is almost casual in their making...
...stewing sun, Raffles immersed himself in tireless study of his surroundings-establishing a tradition of government research that has made Indonesia one of the best documented areas of the British Empire. Botanist, cartographer, linguist, historian, Raffles tramped the jungles of Sumatra, Java, Batavia-areas wrested from the Dutch by Napoleon and, in turn, taken from the French by the British Navy, Army, and young Raffles. When, after six years of labor, the young clerk thought he had attained his principal ambition by being made Lieutenant-Governor of Java, European politics smashed his dreams. Under terms laid down by the Congress...
...stranger was Achille Murat, son of King Joachim of Naples, and nephew of Napoleon. His father had already died before a firing squad, his uncle had been banished to St. Helena, when Murat applied for U.S. citizenship, and settled in the Territory of Florida. He drank steadily until his death at 46, speculated heavily, sired a number of mulatto Murats, married a great-grandniece of George Washington. Usually embarrassed for funds, he was once arrested on a charge of cattle stealing. But he was also sober citizen enough to be admitted to the Florida bar and to dabble in Florida...
...each saw that "stability" in his own ,vay. To Metternich and Castlereagh, thousands of Russian soldiers in Europe were almost as frightening as Napoleon's rand Army. Instead, England, France and Austria signed a secret treaty of military alliance against Russia and her satelite Prussia. Even while the Congress was sitting in Vienna, war between its peacemakers was often considered inevitable. Who Won? Each delegate also brought the peace table his own valuation of his country's contribution to victory. Britons were in no doubt that their 20 years' resistance to Napoleon had been decisive. Austria believed...
...while they talked at Vienna, the world changed about them. When the talking began, Russia and Austria were the major European land-powers. But when Napoleon escaped from Elba, the Russian armies had dribbled home; Austria was occupied in Italy. Only England and Prussia were set to smash Napoleon at Waterloo, and their joint victory made Prussia a major nation, England the most powerful country in Europe...