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The email that came through about the change to the Forum reminded me that I hadn't actually visited the site in a few years though I used to be a regular of the old Napoleonic Discussion Forum. I haven't lost interest, it's just that I moved to Alderney and have acquired a whole host of new hobbies and activities.

I'm still plugging away at my biography of Marshal Macdonald (up to 1814 and near the end of the military stuff at last) and would love to hear from anyone else interested in him.

Regards to all,

Susan Wood (formerly Susan Howard)

Dear Members,

Thank you for your patience in recent weeks, whilst we have dealt with issues behind the scenes which left you unable to post on the forum.

In September, mandatory upgrades meant that the website developers who we pay for the maintenance of servers etc behind this site suspended the use of the old style of Forums for all of their customers. There were no exceptions.

As I began the process of migrating all the data from the previous iteration to this new system (including some 11,000 posts), we hit snags with two items (not bad considering we had something in the region of 70,000 comments to move over on top of the 11,000 posts). There has been a delay whilst the site developers have worked through the bugs, but we now have this 'shiny new' look.

The concept behind 'groups' is that you join a particular group that…

I've just finished writing my article on the Combat of Schleiz. It was an intriguing encounter that I previously knew little about, and through my research, I learned a lot about the actions of both sides. I hope I did the topic justice.

Michael

VIVA NAPOLEÓN / MUERA BONAPARTE! Propaganda y opiniones contrastadas en el mundo hispánico (1798-1810)

Carlos Gustavo Mejía Chávez

Despuntaba el siglo XIX cuando la imagen heroica de Napoleón Bonaparte se esparcía por España y América.Escritos, canciones, poemas y estampas evocaban al general invicto, al artífice de la paz, al gran estadista del mundo moderno. Pero la invasión a España en 1808 provocó la inversión de la propaganda. Una avalancha de textos dibujó a Napoleón como el gran traidor y tirano.El "excelso emperador" se disolvió en el "Anticristo de Córcega"; el aclamado moderador de la Revolución francesa fue calificado como hereje y ateísta. En Nueva España, agitada por conspiraciones y movimientos revolucionarios, el rostro de Napoleón quiso verse reflejado en el espejo de Hidalgo y de los líderes de la independencia.A través del estudio de un inmenso repertorio de sermones, gacetas, estampas, libelos satíricos y procesos judiciales, este libro nos permite…

For those interested in German grand dukes:

https://humanitieslaw.ncfu.ru/jour/article/view/1303

A Double-Edged Sword: The Biography of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott, 1782–1845 (Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology David F. Long Publisher : ‎ University Alabama Press

Publication date : ‎ February 15, 2026

Print length: ‎ 280 pages

ISBN: ‎ 978-0817362409

An overdue reassessment of one of the US Navy’s most decorated―and divisive―early commanders, whose legacy remains teetering between heroism and scandalous.

A Double-Edged Sword: The Biography of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott, 1782–1845 is a comprehensive and long-overdue portrait of one of the most polarizing figures in early US naval history. Written over the course of a decade and completed shortly before the author’s death, this meticulously researched biography revisits the career of a man once hailed for his military exploits―and later condemned for a myriad of personal controversies―including his perceived missteps while in command.

Once again, I have been catching up on episodes of the Napoleonic Wars podcast,- plaudits to all, like and subscribe etc, etc - but here I am taking up my keyboard to comment on a detail that has on numerous occasions, now, been causing me momentarily to flinch at the mention of the various officers and statesmen who once answered to the name of 'DUNDAS'. For the sake of my digestion, and to the enhanced dignity of the podcast no doubt, I should be grateful if it could be disseminated to all interested parties that this Scottish surname deriving from the place name Dundas, conforms to the Celtic language pattern of generic followed by specific, in this case dun, a fort or defensible feature, followed by deas 'southerly,' and is not therefore pronounced 'dun-derss' but- 'DUN-DAS.'

General Sir David DunDAS Henry DunDAS, Lord Melville. There it is. It's g…

I am having trouble finding these, Napoleonic book fans. I see either that they were not published at all or were published as Antoine-Jacques-Claude-Joseph Boulay de la Meurthe, Mémoires publiés par sa famille, Paris, 1868 as cited here. This would be his recollections of his political life. An extract was published as Théorie constitutionnelle de Sieyès. Constitution de l'an VIII, extraits des mémoires inédits

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

I am researching the life of Captain Sir Thomas Staines RN, who (among many other astonishing episodes) fought a duel in 1817 with 'Major Holbrook'. I have been unable to find any information about this officer...can anyone supply more details about his full name, regiment and background?

Thanks