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Sunday, November 24, 2019

Napoleon Mapping


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

You tin progress through the storey of Napoleon's reign past times using the frontward too dorsum arrows. You tin likewise mouse-over the map to persuasion all the mapped locations too pick out a marking to jump to that business office of the history.

The Napoleonic Era map likewise 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 proficient examine at reproducing Charles Minard's famous menses map of Napoleon's Russian own using a modern interactive mapping platform. Charles Minard was a pioneer of the role of graphics inward technology scientific discipline too statistics. Probably his close famous creation was his menses map showing Napoleon's disastrous Russian own of 1812. His map displayed:

  • the army's place too direction, showing where units dissever off too rejoined
  • the declining size of the dry soil forces
  • the freezing temperatures (by date) during the retreat
Napoleon's March is a proficient examine at a slippy map visualization of the Napoleonic army's movements too dwindling size. The alone affair missing from the map is Minard's temperature nautical chart that visualized the freezing temperatures faced past times Napoleon's dry soil forces every bit they pushed eastwards.