Acknowledgments and References

Acknowledgments

The images and works selected for this exhibit are from various collections stewarded by DePaul University Special Collections and Archives. All items and section captions were written by DePaul University Special Collections and Archives staff.

This digital exhibit was organized by DePaul University Special Collections and Archives staff and on display in the John T. Richardson Library from January through May 2015. The exhibit was revised by Jade Ryerson, DePaul University Special Collections and Archives Department Student Assistant in February 2021 due to Omeka.net upgrades.

The digitization of the books, photographs, and documents was completed by staff members in DePaul Library's Digital Projects Department.

References

Bibliography of items selected for Before Waterloo: Imminent Danger.

Introduction

Who is Bonaparte? London: Printed for James Asperne… by J. and E. Hodson…, [1803]. SpCN. 940.27 W628a1803

Mounting Fears and Attempts at Peace

Consular games - the game of brag - the game of hazard / Woodward del. ; etch'd by Roberts. London : Pub. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle row Holborn, [ca. 1804] etching, hand-colored. From: Broadley, Alexander Meyrick. Napoleon in Caricature 1795-1821 / with an introductory essay on pictorial satire as a factor in Napoleonic history, by J. Holland Rose... London, John Lane; New York, John Lane Company, 1911. SpCN. 944.05 B863N

The day of alarm: being a progressive view of the spirit and designs of the leading men in France, before and during the war, and principally since the peace, exhibiting the plans and maxims adopted in their councils, respecting foreign states ; with adimadversions upon the allegations of French writers against the government and people of Great Britain; and historical strictures on the conduct of the French in their intercourse with other nations. London : printed for J. Hatchard, 1803. SPCN. 944.04 D273

France. Official Correspondence between Great Britain and France, on the Subject of the Late Negotiations; with His Majesty’s Declaration. To which is prefixed, the preliminary and definitive Treaties of Peace; with an appendix, containing Colonel Sebastiani’s Report to the First Consul, &c. &c. 2nd ed. London : Printed by D.N. Shury, for J. Ginger, 1803. SpCN. 944.05 F815tG21803

France. Sovereign (1799-1814: Napoleon I) Proclamation of the First Consul intended to be issued immediately on the landing of the French army in England: with a copy of the original letter, in which it was inclosed, addressed to Sir ------, Bart., member of Parliament; in French and English. London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1804. SpCN. 940.27 F815p1804

Moore, Peter. A Voice from London to the voice from St. Helena; or, The Pitt system developed in a publication, from autographs of certain missions, from the British ministers, to France, in the years 1788, 1799, 1801; prefaced by a brief sketch of Napoleon's pacific views, and of the existing state of things--, London, S. Couchman, 1823. SPCN. 944.05 M823V

Pitt, William. Substance of Mr. Pitt’s Speech in the House of Commons, on Monday, the 3d [sic!] of February, 1800, on the subject of his majesty’s message respecting the late overtures for peace from Bonaparte: in which are clearly developed the origin and the progress of the war and proving, that on the part of this country it is a war of defense only. Bristol : J. Rudhall, 1800. SpCN. 940.27 P688s1800

Rennell, James. War with France: The Only Security of Britain, at the Present Momentous Crisis: Set Forth in an Earnest Address to his Fellow-subjects / by an old Englishman. London : Chapman, 1794. SPCN. 944.04 F773PT.3

Expressions of National Sentiment

The Anti-Gallican. [London : s.n.], 1804 ; (London : Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry; and J. Asperne, Cornhill by J. and E. Hodson). SPCN. 941.073 A629A

The Atrocities of the Corsican daemon ; or, A glance at Buonaparte ... London, Printed at the Minerva-press, for Lane, Newman, and Co., 1803. SPCN. 944.05 A882

Combe, William. The Life of Napoleon: a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos / by Doctor Syntax [pseud.] ; embellished with thirty engravings by G. Cruikshank. London : T. Tegg, W. Allason; Edinburgh, J. Dick, 1815. SpCN. 821.7 C729L1815

Huddesford, George. Bonaparte : an heroic ballad with a sermon in its belly, which that renowned warrior and most revered theologian preached at his visitation of the good people of Egypt with explanatory notes. London : Printed for J. Hatchard, 1803. SpCN. 821.6 H884b1803

Invasion Defeated / by the author of The State of Things, for 1803. London: Printed for J. Hatchard, 1803. SpCN. 941.073 I621h1803

Napoleonic Broadsides

In Case of the Actual Invasion. Newcastle: Printed for Hodgson, [1803?]. SpCN. 940.27 I351h1803

John Bull’s Invitation to Bonaparte: A New Song. [London] : Printed for J. Ginger ... ; Wheeler, printer ..., [1803-1804?]. SpCN. 940.27 J654g1803

Loyal subject. A Relish for Old Nick: Song, on the Threatened Invasion, Tune---Vicar and Moses / A loyal subject. [London] : Printed for J. Wallis ... by J. Crowder and E. Hemsted, [1803]. SpCN. 940.27 L923r1803

Shopkeeper. Fellow Citizens: Bonaparte Threatens to Invade Us ... / A Shopkeeper. [London] : Printed for J. Ginger, [1803]. SpCN. 940.27 S559f1803

Song: to the tune of "Hearts of oak, &c." [London] : Printed for J. Hatchard, [1803 (London] : Brettell). SpCN. 940.27 S698h1803

To the infamous wretch, if there be such an one in England, who dares to talk of, or even hopes to find mercy in the breast of the Corsican Bonaparte, the eternal sworn foe of England, the conqueror and grand subjugator of France. [London] : Printed for J. Ginger, 169 Piccadilly ... W. Marchant, printer ... [1803?]. SpCN. 940.27 T627g1803

The Volunteers

The Anti-Gallican. [London : s.n.], 1804 ; (London : Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry; and J. Asperne, Cornhill by J. and E. Hodson). SPCN. 941.073 A629A

Cruikshank, George. A Pop-gun Fired off by George Cruikshank: In Defence of the British Volunteers of 1803, against the uncivil attack upon that body by General W. Napier, London : Published for the author by W. Kent and Co. (Late D. Bogue) ..., [1860]. SPC. 741.6 C955P

By Sea or By Air

Star Strategies

Worsdale, John. The Nativity of Napoleon Bonaparte, Wmperor of France; calculated according to the genuine rules and precepts of the learned Claudius Ptolemy ... To which is added, an examination of a treatise published on this geniture, exhibiting the cause of error in the radix, etc., Stockport, Northall & Dawson, [1805]. SPCN. 944.05 O68NPT.2