Monday, 30 January 2012

MY FRIEND PASCAL CAZOTTES

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Pascal has a sense of humour and I was very pleased that he liked by little Gimped tribute to one of today's most prolific and distingui...
Friday, 13 January 2012

THE REAL NAPOLEON - The Untold Story

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THE REAL NAPOLEON - The Untold Story I am very pleased to announce that I have just signed a contract with The History Press who are going t...
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Friday, 23 December 2011

SOLDIERS OF NAPOLEON'S GUARD

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Across ice and snow, through storm and shell, they followed him. They marched across the achingly dry deserts of Egypt and dragged their we...
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Thursday, 24 November 2011

THE GREAT FIRE OF MOSCOW 1812

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NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA The Moscow fire was caused by Russians incendiaries let out of prison on the orders of Rostopchin, Governor of the city....
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

GREAT NAPOLEONIC PAINTINGS - AT THE BEREZINA RIVER 1812

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AT THE BEREZINA RIVER Nov. 28th 1812 One of the most atmospheric and evocative paintings of the Great Retreat of Napoleon's Grand Arm...
Sunday, 20 November 2011

GREAT NAPOLEONIC PAINTINGS - RETREAT FROM MOSCOW

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SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI - RETREAT FROM MOSCOW by RICHARD CATON WOODVILLE (1911) Richard Caton Woodville was a prolific painter of historic...
Thursday, 17 November 2011

RUSSIAN COSSACKS - DREADED WOLVES WITH LANCES

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Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 was infamous for many reasons, not least for the enormous amount of casualties suffered by the Fren...