New Work & Research

Due out in August, Andrew Roberts, Napoleon and His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal. ISBN: 97820241711354.

In view of current events in UK politics, I thought I would put up some research I have been doing on one of Austria’s shadowy figures: Matthias Von Fasbender. I was going to place this on Wiki, but they have said there is too much primary material and not enough “reliable secondary material” - the lack of the latter is why Fasbender is a shadowy figure! He is also called an ‘eminence guise’, so I was interested to read that this term does not derive from Cardinal Richelieu, but his own adviser, who as a Capuchin monk, work the grey robes of that order.

So, you will all be saying “Fasbender - who is he?”. He was the chief civilian adviser to Archduke Charles from 1796 to 1805 and did much of the implementation work in the First Reform Period (1801-5), before siding with the Archduke’s opponents in 1805 in…

Since the old forum is down and I can't add a comment on my old topic, I wanted to post a historical fiction piece I created using the research and translation I did on the 2e Division Artillery in April 1809. Any feedback or comments would be welcome!

Michael

https://researchingthenapoleonicwars.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/the-artillerymans-stand-at-eckmuhl/

As the "Uniformenportal" of Napoleon Online is growing (more than 5,100 images) I added a detailled search as a link at https://uniformenportal.de/uniformenportal_suche.html

You must choose a country and then you may choose further parameters as time range or several unit types. If you choose infantry, cavalry or artillery all sub-types will be chosen. An additional radio button is provided for the selection of guard units.

I think the german texts will be translated via the browser addons so also non-german speaking may use this search engine (which I built with the help of AI 😉). I think the next border of 10,000 images will be reached in 2026/2027, so more and more the search engine will be of help for all researchers of uniform and equipment related questions.

Greetings from Berlin

Markus Stein