This web site is part of an educational project to fulfill course requirements for a class at the University of Texas at Austin: Library and Information Science 385T.16 - User-System Interface Design. This particular project was a two-week assignment designed to give a preliminary understanding of information design.The digital art work that is found on some of these pages is made available through the gracious efforts of John Schneider at the Napoleonic Literature web site. My thanks to him for making these reproductions available for non-commercial/ educational use.
To give the reader a better understanding of the context of Napoleon's Russian debacle, I have provided a brief overview of his life. The information is categorized under the following headings and contains a short bibliography.
The Early Years
Napoleon's Youth
The Russian Debacle
Napoleon's March through Russia
The Later Years and Beyond
Elba, Waterloo, and St. Helena