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Waterloo : the history of four days, three armies and three battles /
Published 2014Subjects: “…Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815…”
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Civil rights, workers, women, financial figures and the orator, landlord Henry Hunt. The Peterloo Massacre in Manchester on August 16, 1819
Published 2020-04-01Subjects: Get full text
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La culture matérielle napoléonienne dans les expositions de l’après-Waterloo à Londres, 1815-1819
Published 2021-11-01“…This article examines exhibitions of Napoleonic art and material culture exhibited in London in the immediate years following the battle of Waterloo. Focusing on three main museums and exhibition spaces, George Palmer’s Waterloo Museum, William Bullock’s Egyptian Hall and the Waterloo Rooms in Pall Mall, it explores how display of Napoleonic art, furniture, clothing and weaponry to British audiences illuminates a tension in British public consciousness of Napoleon, the Napoleonic Wars and British cultural life. …”
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Indigenous resistance in the Anglo-Zulu War
Published 2023-12-01“…This defeat resulted in the worst single day’s loss of life suffered by British troops between the battle of Waterloo in June 1815 and the opening campaigns of the Great War in August 1914. …”
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The Newspaper as Nationalist Icon, or How to Paint 'Imagined Communities'
Published 2008-06-01“…Through a careful examination of the conditions under which Sir David Wilkie painted and exhibited his most well-received painting, 'Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the London Gazette Extraordinary of Thursday, June 22nd, 1815, Announcing the Battle at Waterloo!!!' (1822), this paper asserts that Wilkie established the primary iconographic conventions for newspapers in the nineteenth century. …”
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Aux confins du fantastique et du réel, le légendaire plus que l’historique
Published 2012-01-01“…Taking as its starting point two crucial moments of the Belgian history – the events that took place in 16th (the reign of Charles V and afterwards) and in 19th centuries (from the Battle of Waterloo until the Belgian Revolution in 1830) – the paper demonstrates how non-French literature written in French was born in a country where this language actually came into being, but which, nevertheless, never came as far as to acquire the status of a nation state. …”
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LA GESTION D’ESPACEEN PEINTUREET POESIE / ŞİİR VE RESİMDE BOŞLUKLARIN ANLAMI
Published 2017-11-01“…Victor Hugo describing in Les Miserables, the battle of Waterloo composed as a painter, with the means of language. …”
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The Future of Winckelmann’s Classical Form: Walter Pater and Frederic Leighton
Published 2021-12-01“…According to such accounts, the anti-classical reaction that followed the Battle of Waterloo and the demise of Neoclassicism was itself a motive force in the generation of modern art and modernism. …”
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Sbandata e fuga di un esercito. Cittaducale, pomeriggio del 7 marzo 1821
Published 2023-11-01“…With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Waterloo and the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna (June 1815), many rulers of the Ancient Regime were resettled on their thrones. …”
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Duke of Wellington and his role in British foreign policy 1814-1828
Published 2023-12-01“…The study of military and political personalities has attracted the attention of researchers in history, because those personalities have drawn with their political and military career an important record for recording historical events, especially since the career of those personalities has represented stages of development and modernity in the military and political aspect, this is if one of them has emerged in a certain aspect such as being a military or a political, so what about the one who was able to combine the two aspects, and an example of that is the personality of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, who is one of the important personalities of Britain and one of its greatest military leaders, so he was the subject of interest of many writers of personal biographies, but most of them focused on the few years of the Duke's military career, especially with the rise of his star in the Battle of Waterloo, which made them neglect the political aspect in the Duke's life, that aspect in which he played a pivotal role that showed the nature of Britain's foreign policy after the Napoleonic wars in Europe and the resulting clear disturbance in the general situation in Europe. …”
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