The Age of Napoleonさんのイラストまとめ

'The Battle of Zurich, 25 September 1799' by François Bouchot, 1837, featuring André Masséna at the moment of one of his greatest victories

"The Action and Capture of the Spanish Xebeque Frigate El Gamo" by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1845. It depicts the capture of a much larger Spanish ship by the tiny, 14-gun brig HMS Speedy, commanded by Thomas Cochrane.

Infantry officer's uniform from the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, c.1800. Münster was one of the many minor German states of the Holy Roman Empire. (illustration by Richard Knötel)

Next episode, we'll be hearing from a figure who is probably already familiar to many of you: William Pitt the Younger, the youngest Prime Minister in British history, and according to some, one of the best.

Portrait of Italian opera singer Giuseppina Grassini by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1805. Grassini became Napoleon's mistress shortly after Marengo, and returned with him to Paris. Later in life, she also had an affair with the Duke of Wellington.

Two iconic depictions of the same event: on the left by Jacques-Louis David, and on the right by Paul Delaroche. I'll leave it to you to guess which is closer to reality.

Happy (?) Battle of the Nile day

An extremely weird cookie ad which references the terrible conditions during the Siege of Genoa in the summer of 1800

'Suvorov Crossing the St. Gotthard Pass' by Alexander Kotzebue

Sanité Bélair, who served as a lieutenant under Haitian rebel general Toussaint Louverture, making her one of the only female military officers of the Napoleonic era. This portrait of her appears on the Haitian 10 gourde banknote.