by cameron | Oct 6, 2013 | Napoleon news
From the website of Artec3D: Marking the 200th anniversary of that battle, the Russian Academy of Sciences, commissioned Artec to help with excavation and documentation of the battle field. Artec was tasked with scanning all human and battle-horse remains. The job was...
by cameron | May 28, 2013 | Napoleon news
I was reading about Frederick The Great of Prussia last night when I came across this picture. I thought… hmmmm… that hat looks familiar! Napoleon apparently adopted the hat from Frederick The Great of Prussia, whom he greatly admired, who in turn...
by cameron | May 15, 2013 | Blog
Today I learned something new about Napoleon. Apparently he was the first person to use the term “idéologue” pejoratively to describe his opponents – the French politically liberal intellectuals such as Benjamin Constant, Pierre Jean George...
by cameron | Apr 15, 2013 | Blog, Games
Napoleon The Waterloo Campaign 4th Edition is the latest version of the classic boardgame – was a Kickstarter campaign that was fully (in fact, over-)funded about 18 hours ago. Congrats to Tom Dalgliesh from Columbia Games. People who pledge $295 or more will...
by cameron | Mar 11, 2013 | Blog
One of Chrissy’s cousins just sent me this story in the Smithsonian Magazine that tells the story of how one man claimed he had plans to rescue Napoleon from St Helena… WITH A SUBMARINE. I’ve never heard it before so I thought I’d share it. In...
