The Story of Napoleon

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	Napoleon the Boy	[15]
II.	The Schooldays of Napoleon	[21]
III.	Napoleon as Officer and Author	[29]
IV.	Napoleon and the Corsican Volunteers	[41]
V.	The Eve of the Reign of Terror	[47]
VI.	Napoleon’s First Fight with the English	[57]
VII.	Napoleon the Soldier of Fortune	[65]
VIII.	“The Spark of Great Ambition”	[74]
IX.	The Italian Campaign	[82]
X.	The Expedition to Egypt	[91]
XI.	From Cairo to Fréjus	[99]
XII.	How Napoleon Seized the Reins of Government	[106]
XIII.	The Passage of the Alps	[111]
XIV.	Blessings of Peace	[124]
XV.	The Dawn of the Empire	[131]
XVI.	The Threatened Invasion of England and its Sequel	[138]
XVII.	The War of the Third Coalition	[146]
XVIII.	The Prussian Campaign	[155]
XIX.	The Polish Campaign	[168]
XX.	Friedland and Tilsit	[174]
XXI.	Napoleon’s Commercial War with Great Britain	[181]
XXII.	The Genesis of the Peninsular War	[192]
XXIII.	Glory at Erfurt and Humiliation in Spain	[206]
XXIV.	The Austrian Campaign	[219]
XXV.	The Austrian Campaign—Continued	[233]
XXVI.	The War in Poland and Tyrol	[241]
XXVII.	A Broken Friendship and What it Brought	[253]
XXVIII.	The Russian Campaign	[265]
XXIX.	The Triumphal Entry into Moscow—and after	[276]
XXX.	The March of Humiliation	[284]
XXXI.	The Beginning of the End—The Leipzig Campaign	[291]
XXXII.	The Conquest of the Conqueror	[302]
	Index	[315]

Illustrations

Napoleon I., Emperor of the French	J. L. David	[Frontispiece]
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Napoleon at Brienne	Réalier Dumas	[24]
“It is the Emperor!”	H. de T. Glazebrook	[86]
Installation of Napoleon as First Consul	L. Couder	[108]
The Death of General Desaix	A. Le Dru	[118]
On the Sands at Boulogne	A. C. Gow, R.A.	[132]
Napoleon giving the Eagles to his Army	L. David	[140]
Napoleon Decorating his Soldiers at Boulogne	F. G. Roussel	[146]
The Night before Austerlitz	A. Dawant	[152]
The Battle of Friedland	Horace Vernet	[176]
The Retreat from Moscow	V. Werestchagin	[266]
After Moscow: “Advance or Retreat?”	V. Werestchagin	[280]
Marshal Ney defending the Rear-Guard	Adolphe Yvon	[288]
1814	J. L. E. Meissonier	[302]
The Flight from Waterloo	A. C. Gow, R.A.	[308]
Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon	Sir W. Q. Orchardson, R.A.	[312]