1. Not, I should point out, a fault of the British Museum’s commendably evenhanded exhibition as a whole. See Tim Clayton and Sheila O’Connell, Bonaparte and the British: Prints and Satire in the Age of Napoleon (2015).
2. I am drawing here on ideas of collective memory and official history discussed in the introduction to Alan Forrest et al. (eds), War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture (Basingstoke, 2012), 16–17; ideas that will be developed further in Chapter 4. I do not wish to insist on any sort of rigid oral/print binary, however, when it comes to song.
3. Jeffrey N. Cox, Romanticism in the Shadow of War: Literary Culture in the Napoleonic War Years (Cambridge, 2014), 160.
4. Mary Favret, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime (Princeton, 2010), 14.
5. Kate Horgan, The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795 (2014), 3.