#Napoleonic

Aris Roussinos

arisroussinos

The flipside of secessionist nationalist movements in the UK (and which I hadn’t considered) is the creation of a Unionist identity which is explicitly a rival nationalist project, which is

Greg Chivers

defnotscifi

They didn’t have memes in the Napoleonic Wars, but if they did, something like this would probably do the rounds.These are two images of the same event – Napoleon crossing

Jason Hughes

JasonLHughes

Ok, so this the promised thread of my favorite Napoleonic era uniforms. This list is completely subjective, which is why I really want you all to reply with your favorite

SimesP

SimesP

I’m f@cking fuming!One of my best friends, Malc, died of cancer the week before lockdown. Because I had briefly interacted with a workmate who had tested positive for COVID-19, I

Boris Ryvkin

BRyvkin

A play-by-play thread to commemorate the 205th anniversary of the pivotal Battle of #Waterloo, which ended the Napoleonic Wars and changed the course of history, using clips from film depictions

Laura O'Brien

lrbobrien

One of the biggest things I’ve taken from this past week:there are a lot of people who should do some reading around the specific political and historic meaning of the

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs. There’s a

Stonewall Jackson

1776Stonewall

Today In History, 1812: The "War Of 1812" begins. Obviously a lot to go over here. This is going to be one of my longer threads, but even with that

Warren Smith

wampasmudge

The Warwickshire Yeomanry was a volunteer Cavalry Regiment raised in 1794 to defend the United Kingdom against invasion by the French in the Napoleonic Wars. Two Squadrons of the Regiment

Zack White / 'The Napoleonicist'

ZwhiteHistory

This is a longstanding dispute that I often hear from fans of Napoleon. I'm afraid that it is based on a very narrow analysis of the emperor's actions. As its

Michael Peel

Mikepeeljourno

Today is the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo that ended the Napoleonic Wars. Last weekend I visited the site of a bloody struggle in which more than a

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

[Thread] Napoleon’s Grande Armée veterans.Some of the earliest photographs of veterans are a series of fifteen original sepia views of members of Napoleon’s army taken when these old soldiers were

Zachery Tyson✍️🇺🇸

ZaknafeinDC

I started writing an article about the deep roots of the intelligence-policy divide before Kent and Kendall and ended up writing an article about how Kendall was actually right, and

Vapor Weyve

Nymphomachy

Here, a masterthread of stupid stories I've told, based on my ability to remember having told themThe story about how I angrily gave myself an award:https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1115288082419474432 Story about how my

Aristocratic Fury

LandsknechtPike

One of the crucial differences between modern wars and medieval wars is that in the middle ages, warfare was generally the domain of the wealthier and upper classes, while today

Uberboyo

uberboyo

There is literally NO point in talking about political ideasUNLESS you are discussing psychologyALL modern debates about RIGHTSAll REACTIONARY critiques of "DEMOCRACY"Are IGNORANT of WHY democracy is so popularDEMOCRACY MEANS