Word: napoleonism
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...saved him from death at the hands of charging French cavalry two days before at the Battle of Ligny, his determination and activity alone forced the Prussian Corps through the deep mud from Wavre to the relief of Wellington, who must otherwise have been annihilated by Napoleon. This was contrary to the counsel of his brilliant, and far younger, chief of staff, Gneisenau, who urged immediate withdrawal toward Germany...
...Napoleon Edward Taylor worked in a Baltimore packing house until he was inducted into a Maryland Negro regiment. In a year or so he was off on a troopship. On June 17, months before the invasion of Morocco and Algeria, Private Taylor and an unrevealed number of his fellow soldiers found themselves off the coast of Africa. They were there to make a peaceful and secret invasion of the Negro republic of Liberia...
Born in Paris in 1796 of parents who ran a successful millinery shop (Madame Corot was modiste to the court of Napoleon I), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot started to paint at 26, did not sell a painting for many years. During that time he travelled incessantly (on a handsome allowance from his father), not for pleasure, but to study landscape. His chief inspiration came from Italy, where he did some of his best work: the brilliant, sunlit View of Genoa, the lovely Olevano with its Cezanne-like brushwork. Not until he was in his 50s and under the influence...
...though the political opinions of Sun Tzu, Alexander, Napoleon, Clausewitz, Foertsch may be repugnant, their military ideas are valuable. So with Fuller: every reader must be his own censor...
...Lake Erie & Lake Champlain, 1813-14. Disputes over British blockade orders directed mainly against Napoleon led to the War of 1812, in which there was nothing for the U.S. to attack except Canada; the key to Canada was the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes line of water communications. Hoisting his large blue battle flag with the white letters DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry outsailed and outgunned the British on Erie. On Champlain Captain Thomas MacDonough anchored his ships in such an advantageous position that when the British tried to attack him, he put them...