Napoleon S Poisoned Chalice

Author : Martin Howard
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752486734

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Napoleon's Poisoned Chalice by Martin Howard Pdf

In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St. Helena to begin his imprisonment following Waterloo. By 1821 he was dead. During his brief stay, he crossed paths with six medical men, all of whom would be changed by the encounter, whether by court martial, the shame of misdiagnosis, or resulting celebrity. What would seem to be a straightforward post became entangled with politics, as Governor Hudson Lowe became paranoid as to the motivations of each doctor and brought their every move into question. In Napoleon's Poisoned Chalice, Martin Howard addresses the political pitfalls navigated with varying success by the men who were assigned to care for the most famous man in Europe. The hostility that sprang up between individuals thrown together in isolation, the impossible situations the doctors found themselves in and the fear of censure when Napoleon finally began to die.

Author : Dr Martin Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1162107372

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Napoleon's Poisoned Chalice by Dr Martin Howard Pdf

In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St Helena to begin his imprisonment following Waterloo. By 1821 he was dead. During his brief stay, he crossed paths with six medical men, all of whom would be changed by the encounter, whether by court martial, the shame of misdiagnosis, or resulting celebrity. What would seem to be a straightforward post became entangled with politics, as Governor Hudson Lowe became paranoid as to the motivations of each doctor and brought their every move into question. In Napoleon's Poisoned Chalice, Martin Howard addresses the political pitfalls nav.

Author : Philip Dwyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408891742

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Napoleon by Philip Dwyer Pdf

'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times 'Refreshing scholarship ... Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail ... Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection is a thoroughly enjoyable book which divides well the reality of exile from the legend that sprang from it' Literary Review This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner on the island of St Helena. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon still held immense attraction. Every day, huge crowds would gather on the far shore in the hope of catching a glimpse of him. Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, examining how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his lifetime continued to be built upon by his followers. This is a fitting and authoritative end to a definitive work.

Author : Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137555380

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Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822 by Oskar Cox Jensen Pdf

This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers, and audiences, it questions both our relationship with song, and ordinary Britons' relationship with Napoleon, the war, and the idea of Britain itself.

Author : Susan Britt-Gallagher,Tricia Hayne
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Ascension
ISBN : 9781841629391

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St Helena by Susan Britt-Gallagher,Tricia Hayne Pdf

Rugged, volcanic and very remote, the three tiny islands of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha dot the South Atlantic like so many bits of flotsam. As Napoleon's place of exile following the Battle of Waterloo, St Helena has gained a notoriety that assures its place in the travel lexicon. This fully revised edition includes information on St Helena's new airport, which makes it possible for the first time for visitors to explore the island's natural and historic attractions without a five-day sea voyage to get here. Hiking, fishing, snorkelling and diving are included, plus details of marine wildlife, from whale sharks and dolphins to groupers and soldier fish. Expert author Tricia Hayne also provides a section on '24 hours in Cape Town', offering a brief overview of what to see and do with a day between voyages.

Author : David Lawday
Publisher : Random House
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446448786

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Napoleon's Master by David Lawday Pdf

He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the greatest conqueror since Julius Caesar. This is the story of Prince Talleyrand, who attracts as much scorn as Napoleon wins glory. To his critics the arch-aristocrat who delivered France and all Europe from the Emperor's follies is the prince of vice - turncoat, hypocrite, liar, plotter, God-baiter and womanizer, and, to make matters worse, highly successful at them all. In this life of the master diplomat, David Lawday follows Talleyrand's remarkable career through the most turbulent age Europe has known and explores - for the first time - in intimate detail his extraordinarily perverse relationship with Napoleon. The richly flawed and abundantly gifted character laid bare by David Lawday is the man to whom diplomats continue to look today for the subtlest tricks of the negotiator's art. A good 150 years before a united Europe came into being, Talleyrand's actions laid the ground for it - as they have for a permanent peace now enduring for two centuries between France and her oldest enemy, Britain.

Author : Brook Thomas
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English literature
ISBN : 3823341685

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Literature and the Nation by Brook Thomas Pdf

Author : Brian Unwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857717337

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Terrible Exile by Brian Unwin Pdf

At its height, the Napoleonic Empire spanned much of mainland Europe. Feted and feared by millions of citizens, Napoleon was the most powerful and famous man of his age. But following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo the future of the one-time Emperor of France seemed irredeemably bleak. How did the brilliant tactician cope with being at the mercy of his captors? How did he react to a life in exile on St Helena - and how did the other inhabitants of that isolated and impregnable island respond to his presence there? And what tactics did he develop to preserve his legacy in such drastically reduced circumstances? Tracing events from the dramatic defeat at Waterloo to his death six years later, this is the first modern comprehensive account of the last phase of Napoleon's life. Drawing on many previously overlooked journals and letters, Brian Unwin has pieced together a remarkably vivid account of Napoleon's final years which also offers fresh insights into the character of this giant of European history. Through his initial flight from the battlefield and his journey into exile on St Helena, Napoleon refused to accept that he would not be allowed to return to somewhere in Europe or even America. He railed against every aspect of his imprisonment and conspired to make life as difficult as possible for his unfortunate jailer, Hudson Lowe, whose impossible situation is sympathetically described here. Confined with him in the damp and confined Longwood House, life was also uncomfortable for those loyal companions who chose to journey with him into exile. Unsurprisingly for such a man of action, Napoleon bitterly resented being under constant supervision when he ventured outside his house and suffered acutely from boredom as much as from his physical ailments. Contrary to the strict wishes of the English he refused to accept any diminution in his status: 'Je ne suis pas le General Bonaparte, je suis L'Empereur Napoleon.' But gradually Napoleon came to think less about escape and more about how he would be remembered by future generations, spending hour after hour dictating the story of his campaigns to Count Las Cases, the companion who had travelled with him chiefly to act as his amanuensis. Terrible Exile brilliantly evokes the claustrophobic atmosphere of life on St Helena, offering a colourful and original history of the period as well as a persuasive psychological portrait of a great man in reduced circumstances. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Napoleonic history and is an important addition to our understanding of the subject.

Author : J Thomas Hindmarsh
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781465315083

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The Death of Napoleon: the Last Campaign by J Thomas Hindmarsh Pdf

Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5th, 1821 on the island of St Helena from complications of stomach cancer proven by autopsy. However, when analyses of trace elements on single strands of hair became available in the 1960s, it was found that some samples of his hair contained increased levels of arsenic which lead to claims that he had been deliberately poisoned. This book written by an expert toxiciologist and a surgeon/Napoleon scholar examines the proof for the diagnosis of stomach cancer. Also it reviews the evidence for arsenic poisoning and denounces this as a myth, based upon the absence of all the specific features and many of the cardinal non-specific features of arsenic poisoning, thus confirming that the Emperor died from stomach cancer.

Author : Trevor Burnard,John Garrigus
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293012

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The Plantation Machine by Trevor Burnard,John Garrigus Pdf

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and officials to become more efficient at exploiting their enslaved workers and serving their empires. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus find deep and unexpected similarities in these two prize colonies of empires that fought each other throughout the period. Jamaica and Saint-Domingue experienced, at nearly the same moment, a bitter feud between planters and governors, a violent conflict between masters and enslaved workers, a fateful tightening of racial laws, a steady expansion of the slave trade, and metropolitan criticism of planters' cruelty. The core of The Plantation Machine addresses the Seven Years' War and its aftermath. The events of that period, notably a slave poisoning scare in Saint-Domingue and a near-simultaneous slave revolt in Jamaica, cemented white dominance in both colonies. Burnard and Garrigus argue that local political concerns, not emerging racial ideologies, explain the rise of distinctive forms of racism in these two societies. The American Revolution provided another imperial crisis for the beneficiaries of the plantation machine, but by the 1780s whites in each place were prospering as never before—and blacks were suffering in new and disturbing ways. The result was that Jamaica and Saint-Domingue became vitally important parts of the late eighteenth-century American empires of Britain and France.

Author : Ben Weider,David Hapgood
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : France
ISBN : 9781583481509

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The Murder of Napoleon by Ben Weider,David Hapgood Pdf

The history books say that Napoleon died of natural causes. Napoleon himself, expiring at 51 after a lifetime of robust health, suspected otherwise and ordered a thorough autopsy. His suspicions were well-founded. So clever was the crime, however, that until recent developments in forensic science, it was impossible to prove a case of murder, let alone name the killer. Now, the authors of this fascinating book assert, it has been done-by a brilliant man whose 20-year inquest, a feat of detection, has produced one of history’s greatest surprises. What the critics say: "History at its most electrifying" - Newsweek "A nonfiction whodunit based on modern scientific technique" - New York Times "A spellbinding whodunit about one of history's greatest crimes" - History Book Club "Sensational ... as gripping as a detective novel yet scrupulously observant of historical fact" - Publishers Weekly "Thoroughly convincing... A major Odyssey in historical research" - Harold C. Deutsch, professor of military history, U.S. Army War College

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112108240943

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Sharpe's London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2929262

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Sharpe's London Magazine: a Journal of Entertainment and Instruction for General Reading... by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 22-23 include illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Author : Anna Maria Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555032375

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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall by Anna Maria Hall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081662185

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Sharpe's London Magazine by Anonim Pdf