The Napoleonic
Archive
A chronicle of the age of powder and ambition: the battles, the men, the regiments, and the fiction of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe.
Between the storming of the Bastille and the fall of the Emperor at Waterloo, a quarter-century of war reshaped Europe. Line infantry traded volleys at sixty paces; cuirassiers broke on British squares; riflemen stalked the sierras of Spain. The Napoleonic Archive gathers the campaigns, the captains and the common soldiers of that age, and, beside the history, the fiction it inspired: the green-jacketed rogue Richard Sharpe, climbing from the gutters of London to the epaulettes of a Chosen Man.
The Archive
Battles
From Austerlitz's frozen ponds to the rye-trampled ridge of Mont-Saint-Jean, the engagements that shook Europe.
People
Emperors and rifle sergeants, marshals and drummer boys. The faces beneath the bicornes and shakos.
Regiments
The 95th Rifles, the Old Guard, the Highland Black Watch: colours, facings, and the men who marched behind them.
Stories
First-hand accounts from officers, riflemen, vivandières and surgeons: the war in their own ink.
Fiction
Richard Sharpe from the breach at Badajoz to the slopes of Waterloo: Cornwell's chronicle, book by book.
Resources
Reading lists, museums, archives and maps for the student, the re-enactor, and the armchair general.
Dispatches from the Archive
Join the newsletter for battle dispatches, regimental histories, and new voices from the archive. No advertising. Unsubscribe at any time.
“It has been a damned nice thing, the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life.”