An account of my life, Aart Kool, 1787-1862
Subtitle: a Dutch engineering officer in Napoleon's campaign to Moscow
By: translated and introduced by Tone Borren
Contributors: Borren, A. J.
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Translated from: dut
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9781877577901
Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Campaigns; Personal narratives
Other titles: Kool, Aart, 1787-1862
Description: "In 1812 Aart Kool was a young Dutch engineering officer in Napoleon’s army on the march to Moscow. Of the 600,000 troops in that infamous campaign, only 15,000 made it home. Aart was one. Twenty-five years later he wrote a vivid and engrossing account of his involvement in this setback for the French empire. A century later, on the anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat, his story was published in a Rotterdam newspaper. Now, two hundred years after 1812, it has been translated into English and is published here for the first time." --Publisher description.
Notes: "A century after Napoleon's campaign, Aart's grandson Pieter Cornelis Kool delivered part of this account to a newspaper in Rotterdam, the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, which published it in serial form. A local publishing company then printed the newspaper material with some introductory words written by Pieter. The manuscript is available at the International Institute of Social Geschiedenis (History), the IISG in Amsterdam"--P. 7.