I wanted to rule the world
David A. Bell: Napoleon’s Global War, 3 December 2020
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
by Alexander Mikaberidze.
Oxford, 936 pp., £25.99, April 2020,978 0 19 995106 2 Show More
by Alexander Mikaberidze.
Oxford, 936 pp., £25.99, April 2020,
“... Joseph became king of Naples in 1806. Renamed the Royal Africans and briefly commanded by Joseph Hugo, father of Victor, they fought Calabrian guerrillas before joining Napoleon’s campaigns in Germany and Russia. A strange and bitter journey, which took men from Africa to the Caribbean, to France, to Italy, and then to the retreat from Moscow in 1812, each ... ”