Napoleon and His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal
Friday 16 October
Castle Hill Baptist Church
7.30pm
Join award-winning and bestselling historian, Andrew Roberts, to explore the story of Napoleon and the elite generals who built him up … and ultimately led to his ruin.
In 1804, immediately after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme martial rank of the Empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some of his most outstanding generals: some the sons of aristocrats, others the sons of innkeepers or coopers, all now carried the baton of a Marshal of France.
Yet Napoleon was to find that he had created a nest of vipers, whose lust for glory descended into destructive competitiveness and mutual recrimination ... and, in the end, just two of them rode beside him at Waterloo.