Before and After Waterloo: Observations on the Napoleonic Era in Continental Europe Before & After its Principal Conflicts

Views of Europe during the Napoleonic Age

The last years of the 18th Century and the first years of the nineteenth century were typified by revolution and warfare. Europe was torn apart by conflict as the hereditary rulers of the Continent fought to defeat first Revolutionary, then Consulate and finally the Imperial France of Napoleon Bonaparte. The authors of the letters which comprise this book were distinctive in that as educated and well placed English people they travelled to the Contin...