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The surprising history of the French fighters who came to Americaand helped build the young nationafter Napoleon's defeat and exile.
Early-nineteenth-century Europe had been in turmoil. The Napoleonic Wars that once ravaged the continent had ended, Napoleon had been exiled to St. Helena, and his Grande Armee lay in disarray. His most devoted officers and men, refusing allegiance to the hated Bourbons, looked for new and distant lands.
With hope, if not enthusiasm, they came to America. Most of them remained to help build an emerging nation. Among their number were many of the skilled mindsthe engineers, generals, architects, city planners, and newspaper publisherswhose contributions to a young America were vital and whose legacies still endure.
In recounting the saga of these former Napoleonics, Simone de la Souch're Del'ry has drawn extensively from documents, letters, relics, and other treasured family heirlooms in the possession of their descendants. Countless Americans today can trace their ancestry to these hardy exiles who, in the manner of the Pilgrims two centuries earlier, sailed to America in search of a new life.
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