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4 Feb 2010, 8:21 am
In 1861, the Confederacy sent John Sliddell, a southern statesman from Louisiana, to the Court of Louis Napoleon III, in order to obtain diplomatic recognition by France as well as to try to enlist France as an ally against the United States. ...Sliddell spoke excellent French (his wife was the ‘queen’ of French creole society in Louisiana) and his daughter Mathilde was known throughout the South for her beauty. ...On arrival in Paris, Sliddell’s courtly manners, and… [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 1:01 am
On one level, the book gives you the story of how Admiral Horatio Nelson led the British fleet to victory over Napoleon’s navy and thus ended any threat to England by Napoleon. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 8:04 am
Guillermo Napoleon Lopez, Miami, Florida, was disbarred from practicing law immediately following an October 19, 2010, court order. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 10:01 am
via pjmedia.com The Catalans have been calling for independence at least since the time of Napoleon, as anyone who has read the Aubrey/Maturin novels knows. [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 8:21 pm
Two hoary maxims that Napoleon ignored were never fight a two front war and never invade Russia in the winter. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 9:00 pm
Napoleon Community Schools, 137 S. [read post]
17 May 2023, 6:43 am
Hirsch (Napoleon Jones Professor of Law and Herzog Endowed Scholar, University of San Diego School of Law) recently posted on SSRN his article entitled Intercategorical Analysis of Law which is forthcoming in the Washington University Jurisprudence Review. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 8:24 am
The International Committee of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section ("TIPS") will meet in New Orleans this Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. in the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, Napoleon Room, 41st Floor. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 4:27 pm
[hat tip to Prettier Than Napoleon blog] [read post]
14 Mar 2020, 8:00 am
Daniel Shaviro (NYU), Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age (Anthem Press 2020): We are an intensely social species, and often a rivalrous one, prone to measuring ourselves in terms of others, and often directly against others. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 10:34 pm
Napoleon said something like "I choose my generals because they're lucky, not because they're smart. [read post]
5 Nov 2011, 11:27 am
Napoleon Bracy Jr., D-Prichard, for using his official letterhead to advocate leniency for a brother-in-law convicted of a federal drug offense. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 5:13 am
Adam Hirsch (Napoleon Jones Professor of Law and Herzog Endowed Scholar, University of San Diego School of Law) has recently posted on SSRN his article entitled Beyond Privity of Blood: Intestacy and Charity. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 7:34 am
In Chapter 32 of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Jos Sedley, whom Thakeray describes as a "very stout, puffy man, in buckskins and Hessian boots," panics that the allied forces had been overrun in Belgium and that Napoleon's army will... [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 2:17 pm
That's Napoleon Dynamite.) [read post]
22 Nov 2013, 3:32 pm
The American Prospect: Razing Arizona Women's Health Care, by Amelia Thomson-Deveaux: Like Napoleon forging into the Russian winter, anti-choice politicians are loath to give up on abortion restrictions, however minor, until the Supreme Court forces them to. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 5:21 am
Napoleon Bonaparte Twenty years ago on that day the Berlin Wall fell down. [read post]
24 Mar 2005, 8:11 am
No sooner do I discover and rave about the band Louis XIV then I find myself in possession of a ticket to a show they're playing. [read post]
25 Jul 2019, 3:04 pm
” Various states in the US do, however, apply a civil or Napoleonic code, such as Louisiana and Puerto Rico. [read post]
26 May 2021, 10:59 am
At the end of 1804, Napoleon had himself crowned as emperor. [read post]
