Volume 49 Issue 11 November 1999

Napoleon Bonaparte took power in France on November 9th/10th 1799, but how did his rise overthrow the revolution?

The pretender to the English throne was hanged on November 23rd, 1499

The editor of the Evening Standard reflects on the romantic roots of his interest in history.

David Rooney describes the extraordinary exploits of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German soldier who kept the Allies tied down in Africa throughout the Great War.

Dutch sovereignty was transferred to the United States of Indonesia on November 2nd, 1949.

Robert D. Storch argues that the state of policing before Peel was not always as bad as the reformers liked to claim.