Napoleon Mapping

History Today has used Knight Lab's StoryMap JS narrative mapping platform to plot the ascent of Napoleon from his seizure of power, through the Napoleonic Wars, to his defeat in addition to exile at Elba.

You tin progress through the storey of Napoleon's reign past times using the forwards in addition to dorsum arrows. You tin too mouse-over the map to persuasion all the mapped locations in addition to pick out a marking to saltation to that business office of the history.

The Napoleonic Era map too includes links from many of the mapped stages inwards Napoleon's history to relevant articles inwards History Today (subscription only).


Napoleon's March is a proficient endeavour at reproducing Charles Minard's famous menses map of Napoleon's Russian drive using a modern interactive mapping platform. Charles Minard was a pioneer of the piece of job of graphics inwards technology scientific discipline in addition to statistics. Probably his close famous creation was his menses map showing Napoleon's disastrous Russian drive of 1812. His map displayed:

• the army's place in addition to direction, showing where units separate off in addition to rejoined
• the declining size of the regular army
• the freezing temperatures (by date) during the retreat

Napoleon's March is a proficient endeavour at a slippy map visualization of the Napoleonic army's movements in addition to dwindling size. The alone matter missing from the map is Minard's temperature nautical chart that visualized the freezing temperatures faced past times Napoleon's regular army every bit they pushed eastwards.