One tough woman. And she never even needed spectacles!Elizabeth Hatzler was one- a remarkable Frenchwoman who went to war with her husband and took part in and survived Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign, at one stage dragging her injured husband by sledge over frozen ground for nine weeks.
Her obituary makes fascinating reading
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Napoleonic Wars
- Margaret
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Browse over 5000 historical novel listings (probably well over 5000 by now, but I haven't re-counted lately) and over 700 reviews at www.HistoricalNovels.info
I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Last Love by Thomas Costain, which is about Napoleon's exile on the island of St. Helena and his friendship with young Betsy Balcombe (sp?). She later wrote about her experiences, and there's some interesting info here. There's also a YA version called Betsy and the Emperor and from googling there's been talk of making that into a movie.
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Women in Napoleonic Wars
I am researching what will be my second and last Napoleonic Wars novel and it will feature women fighters of the Spanish guerrilla movement. From 1809 onwards the guerrillas caused havoc fro the French and a good number of them were women
- Antoine Vanner
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One of whom, code named "The Needle" (La Aguja) was involved with Richard Sharpe ane had a daughter by him - Bernard Cornwell covered the story
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The Peninsular
If as I am doing, a writer tries to fictionalise the Peninsular war from another perspective than the usual "Sharpesque" re-telling of the major battles, the most striking thing is how little actually happened! From 1807 to 1813, just into 1814, most of the time the two armies were actively looking for each other or deliberately avoiding each other.