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In a dark landscape, the wounded Cuirassier flees the battle, going down a slope with his horse. This is how French painter Théodore Géricault (born 1791) represents the debacle of the Napoleonic armies against the coalition during the campaign in France in 1814.

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2021-09-26

Navy fortified a tiny pinnacle of rock off French-held in 1804-05 by hoisting guns up high cliffs. Rated as a sloop, it held out for 17 months despite shortages of food & drinking water. Click: https://t.co/Y6tP11TgzB

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2021-09-25

This week's podcast guest, Prof. Anders Engberg-Pedersen, argues that the Napoleonic Wars not only changed the nature of warfare but also revolutionised people's understanding of chance, contingency and probability, inspiring a new discourse of knowledge: https://t.co/WG8yUUN1jA

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2021-09-23

Here is my Napoleonic Neapolitan Fella! Possibly the quickest and fastest art I’ve made so far as of now, this one is satisfying to draw so cheers!

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2021-09-23

On today's podcast, Prof. Anders Engberg-Pedersen explains that the the scale of the Napoleonic Wars changed how comprehensible people thought war was, with a move from universal principles to an emphasis on chaos, uncertainty & the fog of war:https://t.co/WG8yUV4Cb8

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2021-09-22

Our last few podcast episodes have focused on the different ways we visualise 21st-century conflicts, especially and Next week, we will be going back in time to the Napoleonic wars to discuss how they changed our perceptions of chance and risk.

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2021-09-19

Women (lately I can’t help myself with Elsa XD) in napoleonic style uniforms is really my soft spot, aaahhhh…

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2021-09-18

Next episode I get to talk about one of my favorite Napoleonic characters: General Karl Mack von Leiberich, a man who turned incompetence into a form of art

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2021-09-15

Listing my of (special mention)



FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY & NAPOLEONIC WARS
(1792-1815)

Cue the La Marseillaise!

The wars that made the modern world - and precursor to the modern world wars

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2021-09-11

Colossus

Video about the painting: https://t.co/ObB8tPtaAP

Goya Goya's epic portrayal of the horrors of war from the Era, Ares portrayed as the https://t.co/HUvrjsnlKh

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2021-09-05

RT : Small and lightly armed British privateer, alone and far from any base to fall back on, did not hesitate to take on two Spanish warships in ferocious action off coast of Peru on 1801. https://t.co/r9rTGuiy20

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2021-08-25

The warship was named after a French general of the Napoleonic Wars, Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult. As well as looting Europe's art work's he was responsible for the creation of the French Foreign Legion https://t.co/3zEHeXuV0d

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2021-08-14

Napoleonic Melusine, still love this picture :3

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2021-08-12

In 1815 frigate turned troopship HMS Penelope was wrecked on the coast. It became notorious for the breakdown in discipline of her crew, albeit in atrocious circumstances. Click: https://t.co/r4oAsIVGNk

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2021-08-08

Hilo sobre

El Drachenfest es un evento de ROL en vivo, es decir, tu encarnas a tu personaje, de ambientacion multiepoca.

Hay desde cavernicolas, hasta tercios españoles y tropas napoleonicas.

Aproximadamento son 6000 jugadores. y la duracion es de 1 semana aprox.

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2021-08-01

commissioned some great art by of 2 very gay VtM characters in my games: lilith, a sadistic, sardonic sabbat tremere & evie played by , a chivalric nosferatu and napoleonic war veteran. they're a killer couple that you don't want to meet in a dark alleyway...

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2021-07-25

A French privateer, originally built as a polacca, was to serve under the flags of four nations in just 8 years. She fought her most remarkable action as the brig-of-war HMS Transfer in 1799. Click: https://t.co/1GIwnPpAOw

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2021-07-24

Colossus

Video about the painting: https://t.co/ObB8tPtaAP

Goya Goya's epic portrayal of the horrors of war from the Era, Ares portrayed as the https://t.co/HUvrjsnlKh

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2021-07-23

Colossus

Goya's epic portrayal of the horrors of war from the Era, Ares portrayed as the https://t.co/mcQg2kpnVZ

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2021-07-20