New Napoleon Mapping

History Today has used Knight Lab's StoryMap JS narrative mapping platform to plot the ascent of Napoleon from his seizure of power, through the Napoleonic Wars, to his defeat as well as exile at Elba.

You tin progress through the even out of Napoleon's reign past times using the forrad as well as dorsum arrows. You tin too mouse-over the map to sentiment all the mapped locations as well as choose a mark to jump to that business office of the history.

The Napoleonic Era map too includes links from many of the mapped stages inward Napoleon's history to relevant articles inward History Today (subscription only).


Napoleon's March is a practiced endeavor at reproducing Charles Minard's famous menstruum map of Napoleon's Russian crusade using a modern interactive mapping platform. Charles Minard was a pioneer of the purpose of graphics inward technology scientific discipline as well as statistics. Probably his close famous creation was his menstruum map showing Napoleon's disastrous Russian crusade of 1812. His map displayed:

• the army's place as well as direction, showing where units separate off as well as rejoined
• the declining size of the regular army
• the freezing temperatures (by date) during the retreat

Napoleon's March is a practiced endeavor at a slippy map visualization of the Napoleonic army's movements as well as dwindling size. The alone matter missing from the map is Minard's temperature nautical chart that visualized the freezing temperatures faced past times Napoleon's regular army equally they pushed eastwards.

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