The writer Edward Sterling aka Vetus attacked Napoleon vociferously in The Times. Vetus wanted the Allies to fight on, depose Napoleon and restore the Bourbons to the French throne. (103) Hazlitt favoured a dialogue with…
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William Hazlitt and Napoleon – 2
On April 10th, 1798, his twentieth birthday, William set off on a roundabout jaunt of nearly two hundred miles to met his soulmate Coleridge in the Vale of Llangollen. When he arrived on May 20th…
William Hazlitt and Napoleon – 1
To him, Napoleon’s defeat represented « the utter extinction of human liberty from the earth. » (1) It is very difficult for the British people to discern their true history and what really happened in the past…