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The Emperor's Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Emilio Ocampo

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WINNER OF THE 2009 LITERARY AWARD, SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL NAPOLEONIC SOCIETY/LA SOCIETE NAPOLEONIENNE INTERNATIONALE OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC'S LITERARY COMMITTEE

The fascinating story of the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power

Napoleon's last campaign didn't end at Waterloo. After that fateful day on June 1815, hundreds if not thousands of veterans of Napoleon's army emigrated to America. Many went farther south and joined the rebels fighting for independence in the Spanish colonies, from Mexico to Buenos Aires. The Bonapartists roiled the Western World as they sought fortune, fame, and glory in the expanding United States and in the tumultuous Spanish Americas suffering from repression and civil disorder, and even in the states of Europe. They were joined by adventurers from other nations who shared their admiration for the fallen emperor.

This is the first full-length examination of the Bonapartists who emigrated from France after Napoleon's defeat and exile, who formed a loose confederation with adventurers and romantics, and who contemplated a new empire in the Western Hemisphere. The scheme had the support and encouragement of the fallen emperor himself and his brother Joseph, former King of Spain, who lived in exile in the United States.

Emilio Ocampo has examined archives on three continents and sources in several languages to ferret out the evidence--a monumental task considering that conspirators tried to leave no evidence of their plans, and that a failed plot, like failure in general, leaves few claimants. Ocampo reinterprets Latin American independence as an international event that drew in all the major powers. By illuminating the complex connections between the shattered France of the Bourbon restoration; an England threatened by radical politician inspired by the French Revolution; Napoleon in exile at St. Helena; the United States, where home-grown adventurers and French migrs alike saw opportunity; and the collapsing Spanish colonial empire, where revolutionaries were allying themselves with the veterans of Napoleon's Grande Arme, Ocampo brings together two bodies of scholarship: Napoleonic history and Latin American independence. He does so by tracing the steps of four of the most fascinating characters of the era: two Britons disaffected with their own government--Lord Thomas Cochrane and Sir Robert Wilson--and two former generals of Napolean's army named Charles Lallemand and Michel Brayer.

The Emperor's Last Campaign is a fascinating story, well told, and peopled with all sorts of improbable characters and schemes that perhaps just missed coming to full fruition but that in the process contributed to one of the most important events of the nineteenth century: the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power.

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  • Title The Emperor's Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America
  • Author Emilio Ocampo
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
  • Publication date 2009-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780817316464 / 0817316469
  • Weight 2.17 lbs (0.98 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.31 x 1.75 in (22.96 x 16.03 x 4.45 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Latin America - History - Wars of, Napoleon - Relations with Latin Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008035773
  • Dewey Decimal Code 980.02

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 04/10/2009, Page 16
  • Library Journal, 06/15/2009, Page 82

About the author

Originally trained as an economist and after having worked for more than a decade as an investment banker on Wall Street, in 2002 Emilio Ocampo became an historian. Since then, he has written three books and more than a dozen articles dealing with early nineteenth century history in Europe and America. He is currently based in Buenos Aires where he works as a consultant and teaches at the Univesidad del CEMA.

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