CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | page | ||
| PREFACE | [VII] | ||
| NOTE ON THE REPUBLICAN CALENDAR | [XV] | ||
| VOLUME I | |||
| I. PARENTAGE AND EARLY YEARS | [1] | ||
| II. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND CORSICA | [a]24] | ||
| III. TOULON | [44] | ||
| IV. VENDÉMIAIRE | [57] | ||
| V. THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN (1796) | [77] | ||
| VI. THE FIGHTS FOR MANTUA | [105] | ||
| VII. LEOBEN TO CAMPO FORMIO | [140] | ||
| VIII. EGYPT | [174] | ||
| IX. SYRIA | [201] | ||
| X. BRUMAIRE | [216] | ||
| XI. MARENGO: LUNÉVILLE | [240] | ||
| XII.THE NEW INSTITUTIONS OF FRANCE | [266] | ||
| XIII. THE CONSULATE FOR LIFE | [302] | ||
| XIV. THE PEACE OF AMIENS | [331] | ||
| XV. A FRENCH COLONIAL EMPIRE: ST.DOMINGO--LOUISIANA--INDIA--AUSTRALIA | [355] | ||
| XVI. NAPOLEON'S INTERVENTIONS | [386] | ||
| XVII. THE RENEWAL OF WAR | [401] | ||
| XVIII. EUROPE AND THE BONAPARTES | [430] | ||
| XIX. THE ROYALIST PLOT | [446] | ||
| XX. THE DAWN OF THE EMPIRE | [465] | ||
| XXI. THE BOULOGNE FLOTILLA | [462] | ||
| XXII. APPENDIX: REPORTS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED ON (a) THE SALE OF LOUISIANA; (b) THE IRISH DIVISION INNAPOLEON'S SERVICE | [509] | ||
| ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND PLANS | |||
| THE SIEGE OF TOULON, 1793 | [51] | ||
| MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE CAMPAIGNS IN NORTH ITALY | [81] | ||
| PLAN TO ILLUSTRATE THE VICTORY OF ARCOLA | [125] | ||
| THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF RIVOLI | [133] | ||
| FACSIMILE OF A LETTER OF NAPOLEON TO "LA CITOYENNE TALLIEN,"1797 | [156] | ||
| CENTRAL EUROPE, after the Peace of Campo Formio, 1797 | [171] | ||
| PLAN OF THE SIEGE OF ACRE, from a contemporary sketch | [205] | ||
| THE BATTLE OF MARENGO, to illustrate Kellermann's charge | [255] | ||
| FRENCH MAP OF THE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIA, 1807 | [378] | ||
| VOLUME II | |||
| XXII. ULM AND TRAFALGAR | [1] | ||
| XXIII. AUSTERLITZ | [29] | ||
| XXIV. PRUSSIA AND THE NEW CHARLEMAGNE | [51] | ||
| XXV. THE FALL OF PRUSSIA | [79] | ||
| XXVI. THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM: FRIEDLAND | [103] | ||
| XXVII. TILSIT | [125] | ||
| XXVIII. THE SPANISH RISING | [159] | ||
| XXIX. ERFURT | [174] | ||
| XXX. NAPOLEON AND AUSTRIA | [189] | ||
| XXXI. THE EMPIRE AT ITS HEIGHT | [208] | ||
| XXXII. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN | [231] | ||
| XXXIII. THE FIRST SAXON CAMPAIGN | [267] | ||
| XXXIV. VITTORIA AND THE ARMISTICE | [300] | ||
| XXXV. DRESDEN AND LEIPZIG | [329] | ||
| XXXVI. FROM THE RHINE TO THE SEINE | [368] | ||
| XXXVII. THE FIRST ABDICATION | [399] | ||
| XXXVIII. ELBA AND PARIS | [435] | ||
| XXXIX. LIGNY AND QUATRE BRAS | [453] | ||
| XL. WATERLOO | [487] | ||
| XLI. FROM THE ELYSÉE TO ST. HELENA | [512] | ||
| XLII. CLOSING YEARS | [539] | ||
| APPENDIX I: LIST OF THE CHIEF APPOINTMENTS AND DIGNITIES BESTOWED BY NAPOLEON | [575] | ||
| APPENDIX II: THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO | [577] | ||
| INDEX | [579] | ||
| MAPS AND PLANS | |||
| BATTLE OF ULM | [15] | ||
| BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ | [39] | ||
| BATTLE OF JENA | [95] | ||
| BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND | [121] | ||
| BATTLE OF WAGRAM | [196] | ||
| CENTRAL EUROPE AFTER 1810 | [215] | ||
| CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA | [247] | ||
| BATTLE OF VITTORIA | [310] | ||
| THE CAMPAIGN OF 1813 | [336] | ||
| BATTLE OF DRESDEN | [343] | ||
| BATTLE OF LEIPZIG | [357] | ||
| THE CAMPAIGN OF 1814 | to face | [383] | |
| PLAN OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN | [458] | ||
| BATTLE OF LIGNY | [465] | ||
| BATTLE OF WATERLOO, about 11 o'clock a.m. | to face | [490] | |
| ST. HELENA | [540] | ||
| [FOOTNOTES] | |||
| [INDEX] |
VOLUME I
NOTE ON THE REPUBLICAN CALENDAR
The republican calendar consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, each month being divided into three "decades" of ten days. Five days (in leap years six) were added at the end of the year to bring it into coincidence with the solar year.
An I began Sept. 22, 1792.
" II " " 1793.
" III " " 1794.
" IV (leap year) 1795.
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" VIII began Sept. 22, 1799.
" IX " Sept. 23, 1800.
" X " " 1801.
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" XIV " " 1805.
The new computation, though reckoned from Sept. 22, 1792, was not introduced until Nov. 26, 1793 (An II). It ceased after Dec. 31, 1805.