Introduction: Message in a bottle
1 Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 1, part 2, p. 122
2 Tench, W., quoted in Becke, L. and Jeffrey, W., The Naval Pioneers of Australia, John Murray, London, 1899, p. 138
3 Ibid.
4 Hunter, J., An Historic Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, John Stockdale, London, 1793, p. 76
Chapter 1: Of savages and kings
1 The Oxford Journal, 1 June 1793, p. 2
2 Tench, W., A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, Nicol, G. and Sewell, J., London, 1793, ch. 4
3 Ibid.
4 2 Samuel 1:1–14 King James version
5 Bourrienne, L., edited by Phipps, R., Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1891, p. 26
6 The London Packet, 23 January 1793, p. 2
7 The Times (London), 25 January 1793, p. 2
Chapter 2: Cheating the blade
1 Beauharnais, A., Letter to his wife Rose de Beauharnais, quoted in Blanc, O., Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution, Noonday Press, New York, 1989, p. 46
2 Robespierre, M., Report on the Principles of Public Morality, 5 February 1794
3 Beauharnais, E., Memoires, Audin Libraire, Paris, 1826, I.30
Chapter 3: Where the heart is
1 Hunter, J., to Stephens, P., Letter, 17 August 1794, Historical Records of New South Wales, 1978: 282
2 Milius, P., Récit du Voyage aux Terres Australes, Société havraise d’etudes diverses, Le Havre, 1987, p. 49
Chapter 4: Something in the way she moves
1 Juno, L., The Memoirs of the Duchess of Abrantes, 1830, (trans.) Shelley, G., Jamie Hamilton, London, 1929, vol. 1, p. 10
2 Bourrienne, L., Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, p. 20
Chapter 5: Love hurts
1 Martini, J., ‘Plaisir d’Amour’, love song, 1784
2 Bonaparte, N., Lettres d’amour à Josephine, Jean Tulard, Paris, 1981, p. 45
3 Bonaparte, N., Letter, December 1795, Hall, H. F., (trans.) Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, 1796–1812, J. M. Dent and Co., London, 1901
4 Bourrienne, L., Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, vol. 3, ch. 13
5 Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
6 Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
7 Bourrienne, L., Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, vol. 3, ch. 13
8 Ibid.
9 Letter, 17 September 1896, Hall, Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
Chapter 6: The quest for the new
1 Rowell, D., Paris: The ‘New Rome’ of Napoleon I, Bloomsbury, London, 2012, p. 143
2 Wairy, L., Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, by Constant, Premier Valet de Chambre, trans. Walter Clark, Merriam, New York, 1895, vol. 1, ch. 3
3 Bourrienne, L., The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, 1832, p. 188
Chapter 7: At home with the Bonapartes
1 Chaptal, J., Mes Souvenirs sur Napoleon, E. Plon, Nourrit & Co, Paris, 1893, quoted in The Maitland Mercury, 16 November 1893, p. 3
2 Ibid.
3 Letter, 27 January 1801, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
4 Masson, F., Napoleon and the Fair Sex (trans.), William Heinemann, London, 1896, ch. 3
5 Ventenat, E., Jardin de la Malmaison, De Crapelet, Paris 1803, i–ii
6 Ducrest, G., Mémoirs sur l’imperatrice Joséphine, ses contemporains, la cour de Navarre et de la Malmaison, Chez Colburn, Paris, 1828, p. 311
7 Chaptal, Mes Souvenirs sur Napoleon, p. 3
Chapter 8: A Jonah comes aboard
1 Le Moniteur, 16 September 1800
Chapter 9: The New Columbus
1 Leitzmann, A. (ed.), Alexander Wilhelm von Humboldt, Diary, vol. 1, Berlin, 1916, p. 376
2 Walls, L., The Passage to Cosmos, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011, p. 327
3 Humboldt, A., Journal Parisien 1797–1799, (trans.) Beyer, E., Actes Sud, Paris, 2001, p. 83
Chapter 10: Trouble in paradise
1 ‘The Shamrock Green’, nineteenth-century broadside ballad, origin unknown
2 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803, (trans.) Cornell, C., Marine Records, Archives Nationales, Paris, 1974, p. 340
Chapter 11: The riddle of the helmsman
1 Milius., P., Voyage aux Terres Australes, 1800–1804, National Library of Australia, manuscript on microfilm G7755-7756
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, vol. 6, 5 May 1838, p. 71
5 Molloy, G., Letter to James Mangles, quoted in Pickering, W., The Letter of Georgiana Molloy, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, vol. 1, 1929, p. 75
Chapter 12: The best of enemies
1 Flinders, M., A Voyage to Terra Australis, vol. 1, G. & W. Nicol, London, 1814, p. 188
2 Baudin, N., Report to the French Minister of Marine, 1802, (trans.) in Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R. N., Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1914, Appendix A
3 Ibid.
4 Baudin, N., Journal (trans.) in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, South Australia Branch, vol. 2, 1910–11, p. 28
5 Banks, J., Letter to Governor King, 1 January 1801, King Family Correspondence and Memoranda 1775–1806, Mitchell Library, Sydney
6 Baudin, N., Report to the French Minister of Marine, 1802, (trans.) in Scott, The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R. N., Appendix A
7 Baudin, N., Letter to Governor King, 23 December 1802, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 5, pp. 826–827
8 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicholas Baudin, January 1803
9 Baudin, N., Letter to Governor King, 23 June 1802, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 4, pp. 947–948
10 Péron, F., Rapport sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle-Hollande [Report on the English Colonies of New Holland] 1803, Decaen Papers, vol. 92, folio 2, p. 6
11 King, P., Letter to Commodore Baudin, 23 June 1802, King Papers, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 4, p. 949
12 King, P., Letter to Joseph Banks, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 133
13 Ibid.
14 Baudin, N., Report to the French Minister of Marine, 1802, quoted in Horner, F., The French Reconnaisance: Baudin in Australia 1801–1803, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987, p. 273
15 Péron, F., Rapport sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle-Hollande [Report on the English Colonies of New Holland] 1803, Decaen Papers, vol. 92, folio 2, pp. 3–4
Chapter 13: Knaves of swords
1 Péron, F., Rapport de François Péron au Général Decaen sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle Hollande, 1802, Decaen Papers, (trans.) in Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R. N., Appendix B
2 Blaxland, J., Letter to Lord Liverpool, Secretary for War and the Colonies, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 238
3 Author unknown, Memorandum Concerning New South Wales, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 250
4 Anonymous, Report to General Decaen, 1802, Decaen Papers, vol. 92, p. 74
Chapter 14: ‘The ladies are almost quite naked’
1 Alger, J., Napoleon’s British Visitors and Captives 1801–1815, Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1904, p. 17
2 Phillips, R., Practical Guide during a Journey from London to Paris with a Correct Description of All the Objects Deserving of Notice in the French Metropolis, Phillips, London, 1802
3 The Times (London), 1 December 1802, p. 2
4 The Times (London), 9 February 1803, p. 2
5 The Times (London), 23 September 1803, p. 2
6 The Sydney Gazette, 5 March 1803, p. 4
Chapter 15: The perfect host
1 Bowes Smyth, A., Journal, 6 February 1788
2 Baudin, N., Open letter to the governors of Isle de France and Réunion Island, 1802, Decaen Papers, vol. 84
3 Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., ch. 17
Chapter 16: A day at the races
1 Péron, F., Rapport de François Péron au Général Decaen sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle Hollande, (trans.) in Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R. N., Appendix B
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Humbert, J., ‘Declaration to the Irish’, 22 August 1798
6 Farrell, J., History of the County Longford, Dollard, Dublin, 1891, p. 167
7 Bryan, W. J., The World’s Famous Orations, Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1906, vol. 6, pp. 132–136
8 Scott, E., Terre Napoleon, Methuen & Co, London, 1910, ch. 9
Chapter 17: The lie of the land
1 Péron, F., Rapport de François Péron au Général Decaen sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle Hollande, (trans.) in Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., Appendix B
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
Chapter 18: The wall
1 Ibid.
2 Ibid.
3 Péron, F., A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, (trans.) in Phillips, R., London, 1809, p. 308
4 The Sydney Gazette, 5 March 1803, p. 3
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Péron, F., A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, p. 393
8 Péron, F., A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, p. 394
9 King, P., Despatch to Lord Hobart, 31 December 1802, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 4, p. 929
Chapter 19: The collectible continent
1 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803
2 Hill, D., The Great Race, William Heinemann, Sydney, 2012, p. 198
3 Baudin, N., Letter to Governor King, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 4, p. 1006
4 Baudin, N., Letter to Governor King, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 829
5 Baudin, N., Letter to King, quoted in Backhouse Walker, J., Early Tasmania, Government Printer, Tasmania, 1902, p. 21
6 Paterson, W., Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, circa August 1803, Banks Papers, State Library of New South Wales, series 27, 28
7 Robbins, C., Letter to Governor King, 18 January 1803, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 5, pp. 5–6
8 Ibid.
Chapter 20: Fearless predictions
1 Péron, F., Rapport sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle-Hollande [Report on the English Colonies of New Holland] 1803, Decaen Papers, vol. 92
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Grenville Papers, 16 November 1806, Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1905, vol. 8, pp. 435–436
Chapter 21: Wider still and wider
1 Péron, F., Rapport de François Péron au Général Decaen sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle Hollande, (trans.) in Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., Appendix B
2 Ibid.
3 Baudin, N., to King, P., Letter, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 832
4 Péron, F., Rapport de François Péron au Général Decaen sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle Hollande, (trans.) in Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., Appendix B
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
Chapter 22: Blind luck and broken hearts
1 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803, p. 510
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803, p. 476
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Bonwick, J., The Last of the Tasmanians, or The Black War of Van Diemen’s Land, Sampson Low, Son & Marston, London, 1870, p. 20
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
Chapter 23: Josephine’s Ark
1 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803
2 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803
3 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803
4 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803
5 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803
6 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803
7 Baudin, N., The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, 1803
Chapter 24: Death and daydreams
1 Péron, F., Rapport de François Péron au Général Decaen sur les Colonies Anglaises de la Nouvelle Hollande, (trans.) in Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., Appendix B
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
Chapter 25: Spite
1 Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., ch. 22
2 Baudin, N., Open letter to the governors of Isle de France and Reunion Island, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 4, p. 968
3 Flinders, M., A Voyage to Terra Australis, vol. 2, Bulmer & Co, London, 1814, p. 489
4 Flinders, M., Letter to Joseph Banks, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 49
5 Flinders, M., Letter to General Decaen, 28 December 1803, Decaen Papers
6 Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., ch. 27
7 Ibid.
Chapter 26: The amazing giant rat
1 Banks, J., Endeavour Journal, State Library of New South Wales, p. 219
2 Ibid.
3 Frazer’s Magazine for Town and Country, vol. 21, no. 121, January 1840, p. 293
4 Printed handbill for the Gilbert Pidcock Menagerie, circa 1797
5 Printed handbill for the Gilbert Pidcock Menagerie, circa 1797
6 Blagden, C., Letters to Joseph Banks, 1803, National History Museum, London, Dawson Turner Collection iii, pp. 170–174
7 Ibid.
Chapter 27: The garden of France
1 Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., ch. 17
2 Ibid.
3 Laborde, A., Description des Nouveaux Jardins de la France et de ses Anciens Châteaux, De L’Imprimerie de Delance, Paris, 1808, p. 65
4 Chevallier, B., Malmaison, Ministry of Culture, Paris, 1989, p. 114
Chapter 28: A king in another country
1 Stewart, J., Letter, 26 August 1800, Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, 31 January 1801
2 Paterson, W., Journal, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 4, p. 309
3 Johnston, G., Letter to Governor King, 5 March 1804
4 Johnston, G., Letter to Captain John Piper, 12 April 1804
5 Ibid.
Chapter 29: The people’s empress
1 Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, p. 255
2 Masson, F., Napoleon and the Fair Sex, pp. 336–337
3 Junot, L., Memoirs of Madame Junot, Duchesse d’Abrantès, vol. 2, Richard Bentley, London, 1883, p. 347
4 Rémusat, C., Memoirs of Madame de Rémusat, (trans.) Hoey, C., and Lillie, J., Appleton & Co, New York, 1880, p. 221
5 Ibid.
6 Oath sworn by Napoleon at his coronation, 2 December 1804
7 The Sydney Gazette, 30 December 1804, p. 2
8 Thiébault, P., Memoirs of Baron Thiébault, vol. 2, Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1896, p. 114
9 Wairy, L., Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, vol. 3, ch. 30
Chapter 30: The battle of the coney park
1 Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, p. 180
2 Ibid.
3 Thiébault, Memoirs of Baron Thiébault, vol. 2, pp. 185–186
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
Chapter 31: Heroes and monsters
1 The Sydney Gazette, 30 December 1802, p. 2
2 Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 1 May 1805
3 Wegler, F. and Ries, F., Biographische Notizen über Ludwig van Beethoven, Bädeker, Koblenz, 1838
4 Rémusat, Memoirs, p. 206
5 Letter, 2 November 1806, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
6 Ibid.
7 Letter, 3 November 1806, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
Chapter 32: Misfits
1 Letter, 6 April 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
2 Letter, 14 April 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
3 Letter, 24 April 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
4 Letter, 2 May 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
5 Ibid.
6 Letter, 10 May 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
7 Letter, 14 May 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
8 Letter, 20 May 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
9 Letter, 6 July 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
10 Letter, 8 July 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
11 Letter, 18 July 1807, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
Chapter 33: Starstruck
1 Hooker, W. J., Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809, J. Keymer, Yarmouth, 1811, pp. 44–45
2 The Quarterly Review, London, March–June 1812, vol. 3, p. 88
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Hooker, W. J., Journal of a Tour in Iceland, p. 48
7 Hooker, W. J., Journal of a Tour in Iceland, p. 73
Chapter 34: ‘A small place in your memory’
1 Letter, 24 July 1809, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
2 Letter, 21 August 1809, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
3 Letter, 26 August 1809, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
4 Letter, 31 August 1809, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
5 Letter, 25 September 1809, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
6 Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, pp. 255–256
7 Ibid.
8 Letter, April 1810, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
9 Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, p. 239
10 Ibid.
11 Letter, 6 December 1809, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
12 Letter, 18 April 1810, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
13 Letter, 21 April 1810, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
14 De la Cases, E., Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, K. Lexington, London, 1823, vol. 2, part 3, pp. 303–304
15 Letter, January 1810, Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Wairy, L., Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, vol. 3, ch. 25
Chapter 35: The warhorse regrets
1 Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., ch. 26
2 Flinders, M., Diary, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 106
3 Bonaparte, N., Order to Squadron, Correspondence, vol. 20, document 15–544
Chapter 36: What might have happened
1 King, P., Letter to Lord Hobart, 14 August 1804, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol. 5
Chapter 37: What really happened
1 Toussaint, A., La Route des îles, Sevpen, Paris, 1967, Appendix 1
Chapter 38: Dynasty
1 Wairy, L., Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, p. 466
2 The Sydney Gazette, 5 October 1811, p. 2
3 Wairy, L., Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, pp. 466–467
4 Wairy, L., Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, vol. 3, ch. 3
5 Wairy, L., Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, pp. 467–468
Chapter 39: Sea of lies
1 The Quarterly Review, London, August 1810, pp. 42–43
2 Flinders, M., A Voyage to Terra Australis, vol. 2, p. 470
3 The Quarterly Review, London, October 1814, pp. 11–13
4 Ibid.
Chapter 40: ‘It grows late, boys’
1 Flinders, M., A Voyage to Terra Australis, vol. 1, Bulmer & Co, London, 1814, iii
2 Foigny, G., A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, by James Sadeur, a Frenchman, John Dutton, London, 1693
3 Ibid.
4 Foigny, A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, p. 36
5 Foigny, A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, p. 63
6 Foigny, A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis
7 Foigny, A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, p. 140
8 Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., ch. 27
9 Ibid.
10 Pitot, T., Letter to Louis de Bougainville, 11 October 1804
11 Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., ch. 28
12 Scott, E., The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., ch. 27
Chapter 41: The price of peace
1 Proclamation of the Allies, 31 March 1814
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
Chapter 42: The swans have flown
1 Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, p. 256
2 Hall, H. F., Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, p. 257
3 Ibid.
4 Chateaubriand, F., Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, (trans.) De Mattos, A., Fremantle & Co, London, 1902, vol. 3, p. 186
5 Wraxall, L., and Wehrhan, R., Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Hurst and Blackett, London, 1864, vol. 2, p. 102
Chapter 43: Another muddy field
1 The Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh), 3 July 1815, p. 3
2 Ainé, J., quoted in Macbride, M. (ed.), With Napoleon at Waterloo and other Unpublished Documents of the Waterloo and Peninsula Campaigns, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1911, pp. 181–185
Chapter 44: ‘The bow is unstrung’
1 Bonaparte, N., Letter to Count de Las Casas, 17 March 1816, Bibliothèque Impériale, Paris, 1839
2 Bourrienne, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, ch. 13
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
Chapter 45: Loose ends
1 Hogan, J. F., The Convict King, The Life and Adventures of Jorgen Jorgensen, J. Walsh & Sons, Hobart, 1967, p. 80
2 The West Australian (Perth), 29 May 1947, p. 6
3 Nelson, H., Letter to Simon Taylor, 10 June 1805, Political Register, 21 February 1807, col. 296