"Seeking Books/Resources 1806-09 Neopolitan" Topic

New year, new project. Have really enjoyed playing the Austrians, great troops, awful command. Fun stuff. So I thought let's step it up a notch and do…Naples.

Did a tally of my books and resources on Naples and realized I really don't have much that covers them specifically, even if just a chapter.

Osprey MaA Italian and Neopolitan
Elting/Knotel volume that covers it, although sadly mostly 1812+
L'esercito Napoletano
Napoleon's Italian Navies Vol 2 – Murat's Neapolitan Navy 1806-1815 (might find fun side projects)
Some Histofig wayback grabs. Honestly one could paint everything just from this, but that isn't as deep or fun.

That is it. Sadly do not have the Rawkins. If anyone knows a place to purchase one, please do let me know.

Possibly that is the breadth worth chasing. However, if anyone knows of any other useful resources, books, etc I would appreciate it. Any language.

Thanks for supporting my surely enjoyable future tabletop losses.

There's this:

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I'll try and find a link to another free set of plates in an book online later when I get on my PC.

I love my Austrians

A useful set of uniforms plates of Murat's Neapolitan Army circa 1810 from the Houghton Collection, Harvard University which can be downloaded as a pdf (may take a little time for the pdf to come through to your e-mail address) link

No need to purchase the Murat book as Henri Boisselier's drawings are freely available from the website of Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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Will post a set of links to a host more Boisselier plates once I manage to sort out the linkages as currently they are refusing to display correctly!

Links now sorted – you will find a shed load of Henri Boisselier plates hosted on the website of Alfons Cànovas (25 pages worth with multiple images per page):
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Note there is no number 9 as Alfons clearly misnumbered items, you will see two number 12.
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Useful trilogy of books;
V. Ilari, P. Crociani, G. Boeri, Storia Militare del Regno Murattiano 1806-15, Widerholdt Frères, Invorio, 2007,
vol. I (Comando e Amministrazione),
vol. II (Armi e Corpi dell'Esercito),
vol. III (Gendarmeria, Legioni Provinciali, Marina, Indice biografico).

Also (note these are expensive and are the Italaian equivalent of Osprey MAA series):
L'esercito del Regno di Napoli 1806-1808 Vol. 1: Volume 5 (Quaderni Cenni)
Luca Stefano Cristini (Author), Quinto Cenni (Illustrator)
L'esercito del Regno di Napoli 1806-1808 Vol. 2: Volume 6 (Quaderni Cenni)
Luca Stefano Cristini (Author), Quinto Cenni (Illustrator)

I was going to point you at the 1810 uniform plates in the Houghton Collection but the Prince of Essling has already dome so but neither my link nor his seems to work.
The pdf is 12.7MB so not sure I could email it to you even if I had your address.

@ DevoutDavout,
Ping me an e-mail adress that will take enclosures & in return I will e-mail you images from the Houghton Collection. My e-mail is prinzessling at gmail.com

Ian

Wow, as usual a slight hope shot in the dark is a torrent of goodies. Thanks to you both.

BilyNM- I like Digby Smith and am tempted to buy the book anyway for completion, but it is "just" a book of plates. Not much writing. I will likely still get it at some point since that publishers books are always well made.

Ian – Thanks very much. That is a lot of plates to go through and new information to sort out. I appreciate it. An email was sent moments ago from the timestamp of this post. Thank you.

@DevoutDavout,

2 e-mails with the plates now sent – enjoy. (My first e-mail attempt bounced…)

Note Harvard have changed their search engine – new link for the plates: link

One further book – that I had forgotten:

Les Italiens De L'Empereur: Les Armées De La Péninsule Italienne 1800-1815
Andre Jouineau (Author), Jean Marie Mongin (Author)
Published by Heimdal, 2019
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2840485478
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2840485476

Ian

Thanks Prince!

Thanks for updating the other thread as well. I did not find it earlier. Which is odd, because usually google+tmp is very thorough.

Try MagWeb, link under First Empire magazine. Might have whatbyou need

Wow. Right there are the four First Empire articles. I spent a while looking and had no luck. Thank you!

Edit: I had not seen these before. Great information so far.