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Book Talk: Forces of Nature in the Napoleonic Wars

· 5 pm – 6:30 pm · Marquez Hall, Colorado School of Mines

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Mines professor Joe Horan on his environmental history of the Napoleonic Wars: how armies on the march made “militarized landscapes” along their roads, leaving soldiers and civilians exposed to cold, hunger and epidemic disease, and how the movement of people, animals, plants and microbes shaped the rise and fall of Napoleon’s empire.

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