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Tag Archives: Napoleon III
Mary Chesnut & The Royals, Part 2
Though Mary Chesnut occasionally wrote about Queen Victoria, her more colorfully written royal gossip centered on Louis Napoleon and Eugenie, the Emperor and Empress of France. Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon (aka Napoleon III) presided as the first president … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Primary Sources
Tagged Empress Eugenie, Europe and the Civil War, France, Mary Chesnut, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III
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Sheridan and the Franco-Prussian War
150 years ago this month, the Franco-Prussian War broke out. By early September the Prussian/German forces had smashed two French armies, captured Emperor Napoleon III, and were marching to Paris to lay siege to the city. When the war ended … Continue reading
Artillery: Alfred Mordecai, the Napoleon, and Changing Artillery
Many know Arthur Fremantle, the famed British observer sent to the United States to observe the respective armies in the Civil War. Fremantle was just one of many observers from Great Britain, Prussia, France, and even Hungary sent by their … Continue reading
Posted in Artillery
Tagged 12-Pounder Napoleon, Alfred Mordecai, Army of the Potomac, Artillery-18, Cannon-Obusier, cannons, Crimean War, Delafield Commission, First Manassas, George B. McClellan, Henry Hunt, Howitzers, John Gibbon, Mortars, Napoleon III, Richard Delafield, Siege of Sevastopol
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