No Waterloo 2001 Re-enactment As we went to press it was announced that there will not be a reenactment of Waterloo in 2001. It is not known at this time if one will take place in 2005. 21 January 2001 The eighth annual Napoleonic Fair will again be held on a Sunday in central London at the Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way (off Russell Square), from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., hosted by Greenhill Books. The one- day event will include dozens of vendors offering books, militaria, prints, etc., and also wargame demonstrations. Lectures by Digby Smith and Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels, are part of the program. Admission is £6 with a prize drawing. For more information, contact: Greenhill Books, Park House, 1 Russell Gardens, London NW11 9NN England. Telephone: 020 8 458 6314; fax: 020 8 905 5245; E-mail: LionelLeventhal@compuserve.com September 2001 The Napoleonic Society of America's 17th Annual Napoleonic Conference and Antiques Bazaar will be in Chicago. There will also be a tour of Europe in June, including London and Waterloo. For details, call 727-586-1779 or write to: The Napoleonic Society of America, 1115 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Clearwater, FL 33756 USA. E-mail: Napoleonic1@juno.com October 2001 The Napoleonic Alliance will hold its fifth North American Conference at the Hotel Thayer at the Military Academy at West Point, New York. Papers will be presented by both scholars and members of the NA, and there will be a private tour of West Point's museum. For details, call 217-283-5095 or write to: The Napoleonic Alliance, 505 E. Lincoln, Hoopeston, IL 60942 USA. Visit their web site for the latest news: www.napoleonic-alliance.com 9-19 October 2001 A tour of the battlefields of Napoleon's 1806 Jena campaign in Germany is scheduled by Military History Tours. John "Jack" Gill, author of With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and His German Allies in the 1809 Campaign, is the invited tour host. To receive registration materials with itinerary, etc., call 800-722-9501 or visit www.miltours.com Michael Gilbert 1947-2000 It is with extreme sadness that we note the passing of a former staff artist and friend, Michael Gilbert. During his fifty-three years, Michael was a Civil War reenactor, professional illustrator, and published designer of wargaming rules. At the time of his death his collection counted more than 300,000 military figures. The first magazine on which Michael worked as a cartoonist was Dana Lombardy's Conflict in the 1970s. For more than twenty-five years, he was one of the editors of the Napoleonic magazine Empires, Eagles, and Lions, regaling readers with his popular cartoon series. Mike's color plates and black and white illustrations can be found in many military history and reference books. Michael was the author, with Andre Norton, of a children's science fiction novel, The Day of the Ness. He was also a frequent contributor to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Analog. He was art director for Worlds of If, and worked for DAW Books in both an editorial and artistic capacity. Michael is survived by his wife Sheila. Back to Table of Contents -- Napoleon #17 Back to Napoleon List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Napoleon LLC. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. The full text and graphics from other military history magazines and gaming magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com Order Napoleon magazine direct