The secret war against Napoleon: Britain's assassination plot on the French emperor
"The story of the British government's determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible. Between two assassination attempts--in 1800 and 1804--on Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a propaganda campaign of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade Geor...
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| Summary: | "The story of the British government's determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible. Between two assassination attempts--in 1800 and 1804--on Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a propaganda campaign of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death against one man: the Corsican usurper and tyrant."-- |
| Physical Description: | xxv, 420 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts |
| ISBN: | 9781643130576 |
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Contents
List of Maps ix
Cast of Characters xiii
3 nivose, year ix i
1 Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair 9
2 Responding to Cataclysm 24
3 Bellum Internecinum . 42
4 The Modern Alexander 58
5 The English Conspiracy 79
6 The Infernal Machine 95
7 The Character of Bonaparte 109
8 The Peace and the Press 125
9 Rousing the Nation 146
10 Grand Conspiracy 170
11 Reactivating the Spies 185
12 Atrocities of the Corsican Demon 201
13 Landing the Assassins 222
14 Mehee de la Touche 236
15 Paris in Panic 255
16 Worse than a Crime 2 77
17 The Eagle Does Not Catch Flies 292
18 Trials and Executions 312
19 The Emperor Napoleon 326
20 Epilogue 343
Acknowledgements 357
Notes 359
Select Bibliography 385
Index 405 |
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