We sadly report the untimely passing of Gordon Bond, one of America's most distinguished Napoleonic scholars. Bond was the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University (Georgia) and one of the founding members of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe in 1971, attending all twenty-seven meetings. He was the first member of the Institute on Napoleon and French Revolution at Florida State University, and Institute Director Donald Horward's first FSU graduate student in 1961, and first M.A. and PhD graduate.

Gordon Bond wrote more than 100 reviews in refereed (sources verified by a pane of peers) journals, as well as the important book The Grand Expedition: The British Invasion of Holland in 1809 (University of Georgia Press, 1979). He was a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society since 1995, and received the Legion of Merit at the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe meeting in February 1997. Bond also served as President of the Western Society for French History and as a Director of the Consortium. He will be missed.

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