The Napoleon Series

Acknowledging the extraordinary talents of the man who defined an age (1789-1821) and the remarkable men and women who peopled and shaped it, the Napoleon Series seeks to promote the continued, scholarly exploration of that age. The Napoleon Series is dedicated to the free exchange of ideas and information with good will, intellectual integrity, and respect for divergent perspectives, journeying in international fellowship to probe and illuminate the history of an era whose reverberations still echo today.

Robert Burnham, Editor-in-Chief

With the beginning of the new year, the Napoleon Series starts its third decade of being online! We continue to expand at an amazing rate and have over 10,000 visitors a day. Our Discussion Forum is the premier forum for Napoleonic history on the internet, with over 950 registered members.

Interested in Contributing a Paper to the Napoleon Series? We have developed a writing and style guide! The following guidelines are to be used for all contributions to the Napoleon Series website. This includes articles, book reviews, commentaries and other material. They were developed so that all contributions published by the Napoleon Series will have a uniform look and to minimize the amount of time required to format the papers for the internet. Unless given prior approval by the editor, all papers must follow these guidelines. Those papers that do not follow these guidelines will be sent back to the author for revision. This guide is not intended to limit the content of any contribution; rather it is designed to aid authors in properly formatting their articles and to reduce the amount of time spent editing the articles. A copy of the guide can be found at: Napoleon Series Format and Style Guide

The 2017 Napoleon Series Fund-Raiser: the Napoleon Series will receive a 10% commission for every copy of John Hussey's new book Waterloo: the Campaign of 1815 that is ordered through the Pen & Sword website using the code NSERIES25. Those who order the book will also receive a 15% discount! To receive the discount, when at the check-out you will be asked for a discount count code. Enter NSERIES25

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2016 Napoleon Series Writing Contest! This contest honors the many great papers that were published by the Napoleon Series in 2015. Click on the link to see the winning entries! 2016 Napoleon Series Writing Contest
	Frequently Asked Questions
	What's New? The Napoleon Series has over 14000 articles, maps, illustrations, reviews, photographs, and charts! We added over 500 new items last year! This past year we have focued on primary source material, with hundreds of pages of new or hard to find information. We keep our readers current by updating our "What's New" Section twice every month. To see previous years' listings, click on: What We Haved Added over the Years
	The War of 1812 Magazine is a regular feature that is published on the Napoleon Series. The aim of the magazine is to offer information, discussion, and a place to learn about an oft-neglected aspect of the Napoleonic Wars, the first and only war fought between Great Britain and the United States, from 1812 to 1814. I would like to welcome Matthew MacVittie, the new editor of the War of 1812 Magazine, to the Napoleon Series! Recent articles include: Pirates and Robbers: American Privateers on the St. Lawrence River: An Operational History by Gary M. Gibson which Theaters of War Experienced the Largest Number of Military Actions during the War of 1812? by Ralph Eshelman War of 1812 Chronology compiled by Ralph Eshelman and Donald Hickey A List of Anglo-American War of 1812 Land Battles, Actions, and Engagements; Naval and Maritime Actions and those Engagements involving Civilians, Native Peoples and Non-Combatants. Database compiled by Ralph Eshelman, Faye Kert, Sandy Antal, Jim Ellis, John Grodzinski, James Cusick, Donald Hickey, Donald Graves, Gene Allen Smith and Gary Gibson Queenston Heights, October 1812: Two Canadian Eyewitnesses by Donald E. Graves A Portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bisshopp by John R. Grodzinski C. P. Stacey and Alternative History by Gary M. Gibson From Steuben to Scott: The Adoption of French Infantry Tactics by the United States Army, 1807-1816 by Donald E. Graves
	Discussion Forum We have a very active discussion forum with a searchable archives of over 100,000 messages dating back to 2001.
	Military contains hundreds of articles, images, and maps in a variety of military topics, divided into the following major sections: organization and uniforms, campaigns and battles, virtual battlefield tours, and a map archive. Recent additions include: Eamonn O'Keeffe's Fops under Fire: British Drum-Majors in Action during the Napoleonic Wars Andrew Bamford provides monthly strength reports for every unit in the British Army in British Army Individual Unit Strengths: 1808-1815 Steve Brown's British Artillery Companies and the Men Who Led Them – 1793 To 1815 Susan Howard's The Bailen Enquiry Ron McGuigan and Robert Burnham's British General Officer Casualties in Wellington’s Army: 1808 – 1815 Paul Dawson's Flanquer-Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard Greg Gorsuch's translation of The Campaign of 1814, Volume IV
	Research has articles and primary source material on mostly non-military subjects, such as: biographies, eyewitness accounts, government, politics, and society. Here you can find: Richard Smith's Getting Lost and Finding the Way: the Use, Misuse and Non-use of Maps and Reconnaissance for Route Planning in the Peninsular War (1807 – 1814) Marc Schaftenaar translates Fighting with and against Napoleon: The Memoirs of Jan Willem van Wetering Robert Burnham's British Memoirs of the Napoleonic Wars Tony Broughton's Napoleon's Nobles Lionel S. Challis's "Peninsula Roll Call" Major Phonexayphova's Expectations and Resentment: the Roots of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Ambition and Success
	Reviews contains reviews of new and out-of-print books, as well as web sites, multimedia, miniatures and periodicals. Among them are: John Hussey's Waterloo: the Campaign of 1815 Wellington's Redjackets Through Spain with Wellington: The Letters of Lieutenant Peter Le Mesurier of the ‘Fighting Ninth’ The Royal Saxon Army: 1792 – 1814 To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian Napoleon and Italy: a Military History of Napoleonic Italy, 1805 – 1815 Boots and Saddles: Horses and Riders of Wellington's Army With the 1st Foot Guards in the Peninsular and at Waterloo: the Letters of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pack, 1806 – 1816 Picton’s Division at Waterloo The Memoirs of Baron von Müffling: a Prussian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars Men of the 1st Foot Guards at Waterloo and Beyond
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	The International Napoleonic Society (INS) is a primary sponsor of the Napoleon Series. This non-profit organization, established by Ben Weider, is an educational body whose goal is to promote the study of the Napoleonic Era in accordance with proper academic standards.

We welcome written submissions. If you have any questions, or would like to contribute a review or article, please feel free to contact the Editor-in-Chief, Robert Burnham.

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