In these pages I’m grouping ongoing work on various themes that interest me. I’ve tried to give them chronologically below. Under each heading I’ve gathered source material (such as translations of letters or memoirs), and will later add fragments of writing and reference materila (such as bibliographies or biographies) which are relevant to the theme.
At present the areas of research are:
1797 to 1800
Nelson and the Revolution at Naples, primarily the events of June and July 1799
1798 to 1801
1800 to 1805
Napoleon’s secret police and the plots to assassinate Napoleon
1801 to 1804
Napoleon and Saint Domingue: slavery, sugar and Yellow Fever
1812
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, eyewitness accounts from both sides
1815
The death of Joachim Murat, on events in France and Naples in 1815
The surrender of Napoleon, and the many different eyewitness accounts covering the summer of 1815 at Paris and Rochefort
General
Prisoners of War in the Napoleonic Wars
and
Memoirs, letters and recollections by Napoleonic soldiers, various