This is Victoria
Hinshaw, welcoming you to our journey to Waterloo and back. Tomorrow morning and for subsequent Mondays through
December 1, I will post lessons here on Yahoo groups.
I will also post them
on a blog I have begun for this course
which will have
pictures to accompany the text.
The first lesson is
designed to provide the context for the rest of the course, though I am sure most
of you are already quite familiar with the material covered.
I will also post some
files on the Academe Yahoo group site and on the blog as well. I’ll let you know when these are posted.YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT, STUDENTS:
Please introduce yourselves and tell us your writing interests. Why are you participating in this course? Do you have some specific goals such as how to situate your hero or heroine on the battlefield?
I hope we have a lively
discussion here on Yahoo groups.
Regency Academe: The Battle
That Reshaped Europe: Before, During,
and After the British Victory at Waterloo 1815
Instructor: Victoria
Hinshaw
Six weeks: Lessons
posted Mondays Oct. 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24, Dec. 1
Week one: Napoleon and the events leading up to the
Peninsular War; George III’s Britain
Week two: Napoleon’s Europe; Trafalgar; The Peninsular
War; The Duke of Wellington
Week three: Napoleon’s
first abdication; The Congress of Vienna, Napoleon’s Hundred Days; the War of
1812 with the US
Week four: The Waterloo Battle Itself
Week five: The Battle’s Aftermath: Europe and the
British Empire
Week six: Final Week:
200 years after Waterloo: the coming celebrations, additional sidelights, and a
list of memoirs; wrap up discussions
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