Blurbs
BONAPARTE'S WARRIORS
Richard Howard
It is September 1803, and the uneasy peace between Bonaparte's France and his great rivals looks ever more precarious. The English are suspicious that Napoleon's motives for signing the treaty of Amiens were to give him time to mobilise his forces against them — and they were right. 200,000 men are arriving in camps on the French coast, readying for invasion.
Amongst them are Alain Lausard and his fellow dragoons, veterans of many of Bonaparte's greatest battles. But whilst Lausard lives for war, even he feels hesitant about the imminent attack. The French army may be the greatest in Europe, but on the high seas it is England who still dominate. And whilst Napoleon is confident of victory, he cannot but be distracted by intelligence reports of those plotting against him from within.
When Napoleon visits the camps, Lausard's regiment find themselves heading not for the Channel, but to Germany to arrest the Bourbon Duke of Enghien — the figurehead of the plotters' scheme. It is a move riven with danger: an invasion of neutral Germany could push Russia and Austria into a powerful alliance with England; and Lausard suspects that it is an, action not in the best interests of France, but of the First Consul himself... |
