The Napoleonic Wars Forum

This is what Americans would call a "Hail Mary" but... From my notes on (then) Lieutenant or Rittmeister Anton Gundakar, Graf von Starhemberg of the Kavanagh Kuirassier regiment.. "during the siege and fall of Mantua, during the advance into the Riviera, during the occupation of the Papal States and Tuscany... probably served as an adc to his corps commander, the FML Baron Michael Fröhlich, on missions to the British Commodore Thomas Troubridge". Troubridge was from very humble origins. Would he speak any foreign languages? I assume Starhemberg, an Austrian of Moravian descent, probably educated privately (no mention of his attendance at th Maria Theresa college) but maybe at a military school would speak German and as a gentleman French too, Italian also but at this point in history maybe not English? Troubridge went into the navy at an early age and would not probably have been exposed to much language tuition. How would they communicate? Perhaps a Neapolitan interpreter? I am assuming the communication would be in code and require multiple interpreters. K.

Daniel Gottfried Wilhelm (named "Karl") Freiherr von Stutterheim 1770-1811 This general, considered by many to be one of the most competent in Austrian service committed suicide in 1811 over a scandal. Does anyone have details of this scandal? K

Napoleonic Governance and the Integration of Europe: Managing the Empire, Winning the Peace? (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850) Doina Pasca Harsanyi & Alexander Mikaberidze (eds.) Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 10, 2025 Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages ISBN: ‎ 9783031964664 Between 1792 and 1815 Europe was plunged into a period of profound turmoil and transformation. The French Revolution unleashed a torrent of political, social, cultural, and military changes. Napoleon extended them beyond the country’s frontiers. The ensuing struggle was immense in its scale and intensity. Never before had European states resorted to a mobilization of civilian and military resources as comprehensive as during this period. This book explores the practical and philosophical challenges that Napoleonic administrators encountered in their quest to establish and legitimize French imperium in conquered territories. The dualities at the basis of the Napoleonic Empire – progress and exploitation; emancipation and occupation; national liberation and occupation – have been the object of previous studies. The contributions brought together in this edited collection build on recent historiographical work to explore in depth the dynamics such dualities generated on the ground in different regions of the empire.