Found 129 results for "Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 in fiction"
by Лев Толстой
"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.
by Stendhal
ON the 15th of May, 1796, General Bonaparte marched into the city of Milan, at the head of the youthful army which had j...
by C. S. Forester
A JANUARY GALE was roaring up the Channel, blustering loudly, and bearing on its bosom rain squalls whose big drops ratt...
by Patrick O'Brian
THE MUSIC-ROOM IN the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant...
by Thomas Hardy
In the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women, when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a ca...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
It was the old Brigadier who was talking in the cafe.
by Thomas Hardy
Enter the Ancient Spirit and Chorus of the Years, the Spirit and Chorus of the Pities, the Shade of the Earth, the Spiri...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
YOU do very well, my friends, to treat me with some little reverence, for in honouring me you are honouring both France ...
by C. S. Forester, C.S.Forester
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BUSH came on board H.M.S. Renown as she lay at anchor in the Hamoaze and reported himself to the offi...
by C. S. Forester
THE CHAPEL STALL of carved oak in which Sir Horatio Hornblower was sitting was most uncomfortable, and the sermon which ...
by James Fenimore Cooper
The charms of the Tyrrhrnian Sea have been sung since the days of Homer.
by Arthur Conan Doyle
It is strange to me, Jock Calder of West Inch, to feel that though now, in the very centre of the nineteenth century, I ...
by R. D. Blackmore
In the days when England trusted mainly to the vigor and valor of one man, against a world of enemies, no part of her co...
by C. S. Forester
CAPTAIN SIR HORATIO HORNBLOWER sat in his bath, regarding with distaste his legs dangling over the end.
by C. S. Forester, C.S.Forester
HAVING CLIMBED up through the locks, the canal boat was now winding over the pleasant Cotswold country. Hornblower was b...