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Nicholas I of Russia

1796–1855

Nicholas I was emperor of Russia from 1825 to 1855, beginning his reign amid the Decembrist Revolt. He strengthened censorship, political policing and autocratic administration, intervened against revolution in Europe and led Russia into the Crimean War.

In Allan Mallinson’s On His Majesty’s Service, the assignment is meant to keep him outside the fighting between Nicholas I’s Russia and Mahmud II’s Ottoman Empire.

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Matthew Hervey in Order

by Allan Mallinson 14 books 4.2

The Matthew Hervey novels follow an English cavalry officer from the final campaign against Napoleon into the unsettled decades after Waterloo. Beginning as a young cornet in the 6th Light Dragoons, Hervey advances through command while trying to reconcile professional duty, personal honour, family obligations and the often…

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