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Dissertation on Military Medicine in the Peninsula
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Egyptian Campaign
Does anyone have more information on the hospitalship "Le Causse" and its crew. It was one of the last ships to sail out of Alexandria after the siege. One of my ancestors, Samuel Bernard, was apparently on board. See picture below of a letter affecting him to the ship. The letter is just one among a number of documents I found regarding his time in Egypt as one of the young "savants" Bonaparte recruited for the expedition. If interested, I can post more of the documents.
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Napoleon's Officers
Napoleon's Officers: Uniforms and Equipment. Paul Dawson. Frontline. Nov. 2026 ISPN 9781036141844.
200 color illustrations.
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Austerlitz Guidebook
I am planning to do a one day visit to Austerlitz in early and am looking for a guidebook to allow me to see the key parts of the battlefield.
The other option is to hire a guide.
Can anyone recommend a book and / or a guide?
Thanks!
Bob
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David Hollins
May 22
The local reenactors are probably the best to ask https://www.austerlitz.org/en/austerlitz-2025-the-commemorative-event-of-the-220th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-the-three-emperors-will-take-place-on-28-30-november/
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Austrian Generals
Generals in White, vol 1: Austrian Generals of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Daniel Clarke. Helion. June 2026. ISPN 9781804519875.
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Daniel Clarke
May 22
Thank you for posting this @tomholmberg
It is my first book and if anyone has a copy , all feedback is welcome to improve going forward along with any questions or other comments.
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Scottish Officers & Highland Regiments
Cultural History of Scottish Officers and Highland RegimentsRegiments: Martial Ardour during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Vicky Coleman. Springer. June 2026. ISPN 97830214337.
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Forces of Nature
Mass Mortality, Military Movement, and the Forces of Nature in the Napoleonic Wars. Joseph Horan. Leiden Univ. Press. May 2026. ISPN 978908725043.
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1805 - the Thucydides Trap
While reading up on Austrian politics in the 1801-05 period - very complicated, but vital for understanding what followed - inevitably the question arose of why Austria went to war when she was on her knees financially and militarily. It is a question addressed by Oskar Regele in Mitteilungen des Kriegsarchivs 21, but there seems to be an older answer in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGjjnK15pks&t=632s It has been a few (ahem) years since I took Ancient History A-level (A!), but it included the Peloponnesian War and I think I read Thucydides about three times. However, he postulates that we must 1) consider the undercurrents, not just the immediate causes, 2) look at the fear created in the declining power by the actions of the rising state, not just existing ones but how they are likely to be used in not just a hard power sense, but also economically, 3) look at…
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tomholmberg
May 21
This was raised by the Chinese leader Xi Jiping during Trump's recent visit. Trump didn't know anything about it either.
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A British PhD about Austria!
I came across this interesting PhD: Fighting for the Habsburgs: Community, Patriotism and the kaiserlich-königliche Armee, 1788-1816 by Kurt J. G. Baird PhD of the University of York from 2022, which will be published in early 2027 as an academic book, so it is priced at £50. However, it is currently available for free on the Net at https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/31909/1/Baird_204038989_ThesisClean.pdf
After the recent thesis by Gramm on “the unfortunate General Mack” (in German) at https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/object/o:1249109/download , which also contains a lot of useful background political material, it is good to see increased interest in the Imperial Austrian army, especially in English. The book will include uniform plates, but also some of another set created in 1801, which illustrated various heroic acts during the Second Coalition.
The work of Ilya Berkowich and Michael Wenzel in the Vienna Kriegsarchivs, alongside printed material from a century ago, has produced a collection of statistical material,…
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Le Causse started life as a Venetian ship of the line named Vulcano taken by the French at Corfu in 1797, and refitted as a hospital ship while retaining her armament of 66 guns. She served in this role during the Egyptian expedition, and was eventually captured by the British at Alexandria in 1801, who then gave her to their allies, the Turkish navy. Rif Winfield's book 'French Warships in the Age of Sail" gives further details. It does not seem that the Causse left Alexandria after the Battle of the Nile.