"While I am still adamant about the list of nine writers I named as being, in my opinion, 'the leading Napoleonic scholars/writers in the USA and abroad today' [Napoleon #8, pages 10-11], I am now feeling like the Duke of Wellington, who wrote many years after Waterloo: 'I should have given more praise'.

"All lists are problematic -- writers with only one book or several subjects, more of a specialist or generalist, etc. Moreover, a couplet in W. S. Gilbert's 'The Gondoliers' comes to mind, wherein Don Alhambra sings: 'When every one is somebody/Then no one is anybody!'

"Nevertheless, I should have added twelve more historians (only writing in English, and alive on this date), and would like to do that now, in alphabetical order:

"James R. Arnold (US), Owen Connelly (US), Charles J. Esdaile (Br.), David Gates (Br.), John G. Gallaher (US), John H. Gill (US), Robert M. Epstein (US), Philip J. Haythornthwaite (Br.), Piers Mackesy (Br.), George Nafziger (US), Gunther E. Rothenberg (US), John L. Tone (US). "I hope that these additions to my list '...of the blessed' help me recover my reputation for fairness toward esteemed colleagues."

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