“The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.” — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His observation helps… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
“The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way,… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.” — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
“The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
“Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.” — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
“Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men,… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share
