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CONTENTS
T HE N APOLEONIC W ARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The Emperor and Trafalgar . . . . . . . . . . . 24
From Austerlitz to Tilsit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Interlude: Portugal
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Peninsular War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Map: Europe in 1810
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Interlude: India
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Interlude: Russia
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Map: The Iberian Peninsula
. . . . . . . . . 27
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
The Ongoing War at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
The Retreat from Moscow. . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Interlude: The Infant Republic
Interlude: Prussia
. . . . . 29
Downfall of the Emperor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Interlude: Colonies in Revolt
. . . . . . 30
T HE W AR OF 1812 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Defense of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
What If . . . A Close Run Thing
. . . . . 31
Interlude: The Ottoman Empire
. . . . . 31
The Battle of New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Map: Europe After the
Congress of Vienna
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
T HE H UNDRED D AYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Escape from Elba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Waterloo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
What If . . . Escape from St. Helena
. . 33
A FTERMATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
The New World Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Death of an Emperor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
I NTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . 4
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About GURPS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Revolutionary Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
T HE R EVOLUTIONARY W ARS . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Defending the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Interlude: Italy
Interlude: Holland
2. P EOPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
R ULERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
N APOLEON B ONAPARTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Catherine the Great . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
George III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
George IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. . . . . . . 38
Tipu Sultan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
S TATESMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Joseph Fouché . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Manuel de Godoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Lord Frederick North. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
William Pitt the Younger . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 41
George Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
A DMIRALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Thomas Cochrane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Stephen Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Horatio Nelson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Sir Sidney Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Pierre-André Suffren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
G ENERALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Eugène de Beauharnais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Louis-Nicolas Davout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Colquhoun Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Andre Masséna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Joachim Murat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Michel Ney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington . . 49
R EVOLUTIONARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Georges-Jacques Danton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Comte Honoré Gabriel Riqueti
de Mirabeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Maximilien Robespierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. H ISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
T HE S TATE OF THE W ORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Map: Empires of the World – 1769
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Interlude: Ireland
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Italian Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Interlude: Austria
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Interlude: Spain
. . . . . 6
Timeline
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Map: The American Colonies in 1775
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Interlude: England
. . 8
The Conquest of Corsica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
T HE A MERICAN W AR OF I NDEPENDENCE . . . 8
The American Quarrel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
First Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Sons of Liberty
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
First Consul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
From Marengo to the Treaty of Amiens . 22
Interlude: The West Indies
. . . . . . . . . 23
What If . . . French Victory
at Trafalgar
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
What If . . . A British America
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
T HE P EACE OF A MIENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Interlude: The Baltic
. . . . . . 10
The Declaration of Independence . . . . . . 10
The Surrender at Saratoga . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
All the World Against Them
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
. . . . . . . . 11
Enter the French. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Divided Loyalties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Southern Campaigns. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
France Under Louis XVI
. . . . . . . . . . 13
T HE F RENCH R EVOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Countdown to Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Bourgeois Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Map: Paris in the French Revolution
. 14
The Popular Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Girondins and Jacobins
. . . . . . . . . . . 15
Victims of the Guillotine
. . . . . . . . . . 15
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
A New Constitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Death of a King . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Map: Revolutionary France
Let Them Eat Cake
. 16
What If . . .
Ending the Revolution
. . . . . . 17
Days of Terror . . . . . . . . . 17
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CONTENTS
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4. M ILITARY L IFE . . . . . . 69
S AILORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Pressed Men and Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . 70
Life at Sea
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Theobald Wolfe Tone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
O THER E MINENT P ERSONAGES . . . . . . . . . . 51
Edmund Burke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Jacques-Louis David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Thomas Paine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Jean-Jacques Rousseau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Germaine de Staël . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
N APOLEON ’ S S IBLINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Joseph Bonaparte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Lucien Bonaparte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Elisa Bonaparte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Louis Bonaparte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Pauline Bonaparte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Caroline Bonaparte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Jérôme Bonaparte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3. E VERYDAY L IFE . . . . . 56
F OOD AND D RINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
C LOTHING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
E NTERTAINMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
T RAVEL BY L AND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
T RAVEL BY S EA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
M ONEY AND T RADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
C RIME AND P UNISHMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Slaves and Slavery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
All the World’s Fleets
. . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Abstract Naval Battles
. . . . . . . . . . . . 74
The Real Enemy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Prisoners and Parole
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
S OLDIERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Types of Soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Officers and Gentlemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Imperial Guard
. . 100
New Advantage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Women in the Era
Templates from GURPS Warriors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Daily Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Distinctive British Forces
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
New Skill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
L ANGUAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
E CONOMICS , J OBS , AND W EALTH . . . . . . . 105
Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Wealth and Social Status . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Job Table
The Blue Devils
. . . . . . . . . 79
The Purchase System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
In Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Napoleon’s Military Success
Flogging Rules
. . . . . . . 83
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
E QUIPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Weapon Table
. . . . . . . . . . . . 83
S PIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
On His Majesty’s Secret Service . . . . . . . 84
The Men from the Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . 85
All the World’s Armies
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
7. C AMPAIGNS . . . . . . . . 111
T YPES OF C AMPAIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
I N THE S HADOW OF THE E AGLES . . . . . . . 112
Adventure Ideas: Army Campaigns
5. A RTS AND S CIENCES . . 86
P HILOSOPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Mercantilism vs. Free Trade
. 113
H EARTS OF O AK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Adventure Ideas: Naval Campaigns
. . . . . . . 87
Freemasonry and Secret Societies
. . . 88
T HE A RTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
The Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
A Night at the Opera
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
R ELIGION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
S OCIAL C LASSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Nobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Duelling
114
P RIVATEERS AND P IRATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
The Barbary Pirates
. . . . . . . . . . . . 115
. . . . . . . . . . . . 116
T RADERS , S LAVERS , AND S MUGGLERS . . . 116
For King and Company
Protecting the Prince
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Visual Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
A DVANCES IN S CIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Scientific Academies and the
Pursuit of Knowledge
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Gentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Clergy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Townsfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
A Tale of Two Cities
. . . . . . . . . . 117
T HE U NDISCOVERED C OUNTRY . . . . . . . . 118
Unwilling Colonists in Australia . . . . . . 118
S PIES AND S PYMASTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Peasants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
L IFE IN THE A MERICAN C OLONIES . . . . . . . 65
Map: Pre-Revolutionary France
. . . . . . . . . . . . 91
A DVANCES IN M EDICINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Practitioners and Treatments
119
. . . . . . 92
P OLITICIANS , R EBELS , AND
R EACTIONARIES
. . . . . 65
. . . . . . . . . . . 93
A DVANCES IN T ECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . 93
6. C HARACTERS . . . . . . . 95
C HARACTER T YPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
A DVANTAGES , D ISADVANTAGES ,
AND S KILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Voyages of Exploration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
L IFE IN R EVOLUTIONARY F RANCE . . . . . . . 67
Dechristianization and the
Supreme Being
Nabobs of the Indies
A Lost Dauphin
and the Great Pretenders
. . . . . . . . 120
The Honorable Members of Parliament
121
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
The Revolutionary Calendar
Time Travelers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Scarlet Pimpernels
. . . . . . . 67
L IFE IN I MPERIAL F RANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
T HE C ONSERVATIVE R EACTION
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
The Grand Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
P AWNS OF THE S ECRET M ASTERS . . . . . . 123
O THER C AMPAIGNS AND C ROSSOVERS . . . 124
GURPS Swashbucklers
. . . . . . . . . 68
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Pioneer Campaigns and
GURPS Old West
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Science:
GURPS High-Tech,
GURPS Steampunk,
GURPS Steam-Tech,
and
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
GURPS Horror, GURPS Undead,
and
GURPS Vehicles
GURPS Voodoo
. . . . . . . . . . . . 125
GURPS Screampunk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
GURPS Goblins
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
GURPS Castle Falkenstein
. . . . . . . . . . 125
GURPS Space
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
B IBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . 126
I NDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Age of Napoleon.
It is an age of conflict, of revolution, and of war. In Amer-
ica, a rebellion will liberate the New World from the control of
the Old World. In France, the middle classes and the mob will
challenge the power and privileges of the aristocracy and the
monarchy, overthrowing both. And in the maelstrom of vio-
lence, Napoleon Bonaparte, an obscure artillery officer from
Corsica, will both save and destroy the French Revolution,
crowning himself Emperor.
Napoleon’s dreams of empire – in Europe, in India, and in
the Americas – will engulf the entire world in war.
Into this crucible of revolution and war will be swept aris-
tocrat and commoner alike. Politicians seek high office, power,
and an opportunity to enrich themselves. Merchants, slavers,
and smugglers profit from trading ventures, legal and other-
wise. Explorers and scientists expand the bounds of what is
known. Rebels and revolutionaries plot to oust corrupt govern-
ments. Royalists rescue aristocrats from the guillotine and seek
to restore the old order. Informers and spies at every level of
society report to their masters, while secret police agents seek
to infiltrate and unmask the intriguers. Soldiers and sailors
fight for ideals and glory in battles whose fame endures to the
present day, and their generals and admirals decide the fate of
nations and colonial empires. Behind the scenes, secret soci-
eties are formed to pursue the hidden agendas of their founders.
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About the Author
Born in Northern Ireland, Nicholas H. M. Caldwell now
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ing since he was 12, and was immersed in science fiction, fan-
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