Empire's Eagles
Subtitle: The Fate of the Napoleonic Elite in America
By: Thomas E. Crocker
Publisher: Prometheus
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781633886551
Subjects: French; History; Exiles; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Aristocracy (Social class); French Americans; Emigration and immigration; Français; Histoire; Guerres napoléoniennes, 1800-1815; Américains d'origine française; History: Modern / 19th Century; History: Military / Napoleonic Wars
Description: The never-before told story of how Napoleon's top brass escaped to America after Waterloo.
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Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: List of Illustrations and Maps; title: Preface; title: Chapter 1Little Drummer Boy; title: Chapter 2 Bonaparte's Retreat; title: Chapter 3 The Enabler; title: Chapter 4 The Hounds of Retribution; title: Chapter 5 The Philadelphia Story; title: Chapter 6 The Altruistic Adventurers; title: Chapter 7 The Alarming Adventurers; title: Chapter 8 The Strange Case of Michel Ney, the "Bravest of the Brave," Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moscow, and Marshal of France; title: Chapter 9 The Flight, Trial, and Execution of Marshal Ney; title: Chapter 10 The Eyewitnesses; title: Chapter 11 Was Marshal Ney Executed?; title: Appendix A Principal U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Makers Responsible for France, 1809-1823; title: Appendix B Letter from P. S. Ney to Former President James Madison; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index; title: About the Author