BASF Lecture: Geht nach England: Hamburg and the Napoleonic Wars
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Online
Speaker: Jan Rueger (Birkbeck)
On 19 November 1806, Napoleon’s troops occupied Hamburg. From then until May 1814, the Hanseatic city was under French control but it continued to be closely linked with Britain. The lecture focusses on the ways in which this fraught time was experienced by the Hamburgers. Their city became the most important entry point used by the British in the clandestine war against the French and it functioned as a gateway for all those bound for Britain. As a result, the Napoleonic Wars created an extraordinary Anglo-German symbiosis: a dense network of officers, soldiers, agents, bankers, merchants and smugglers who worked together to break Napoleon’s rule and, in turn, deepened the ties that linked Britain and Northern Germany.
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Department of History, Classics and Archaeology