Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of York. His previous publications include Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002), The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009), Napoleon (2011), Waterloo (2015), and The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War and Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2020). He is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History (2016).