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December 20, 2024
Basil Hall was a British naval officer, traveller and author who wrote engaging books about his trips to Asia, South America and North America in the early 1800s. In 1817, Hall met with defeated French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena. A dozen years later, Hall’s publication about his travels in the United States caused a “moral earthquake” among Americans.
Napoleon in America
What if Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from St. Helena and wound up in the United States? Kirkus Reviews calls the first book in Shannon’s Napoleon series “evocative and immersive.”
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Shannon interviewed on American History Hit
November 23, 2023
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Don Wildman for an episode of American History Hit entitled “Napoleon in America”: What impact did Napoleon have on the United States? And what if he had crossed the Atlantic?