The Story of Napoleon

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The Story of Napoleon

CHAPTER I Napoleon the Boy (1769 - 1778)

CHAPTER II The Schooldays of Napoleon (1779 - 1784)

CHAPTER III Napoleon as Officer and Author (1784 - 1791)

CHAPTER IV Napoleon and the Corsican Volunteers (1791 - 1792)

CHAPTER V The Eve of the Reign of Terror (1792 - 1793)

CHAPTER VI Napoleon's First Fight with the English -1793

CHAPTER VII Napoleon the Soldier of Fortune (1794 - 1796)

CHAPTER VIII "The Spark of Great Ambition" -1796

CHAPTER IX The Italian Campaign (1796 - 1797)

CHAPTER X The Expedition to Egypt -1798

CHAPTER XI From Cairo to FrEjus (1798 - 1799)

CHAPTER XII How Napoleon Seized the Reins of Government -1799

CHAPTER XIII The Passage of the Alps (1799 - 1801)

CHAPTER XIV Blessings of Peace (1801 - 1803)

CHAPTER XV The Dawn of the Empire (1803 - 1804)

CHAPTER XVI The Threatened Invasion of England and its Sequel (1804 - 1805)

CHAPTER XVII The War of the Third Coalition (1805 (6))

CHAPTER XVIII The Prussian Campaign -1806

CHAPTER XIX The Polish Campaign (1806 (7))

CHAPTER XX Friedland and Tilsit -1807

CHAPTER XXI Napoleon's Commercial War with Great Britain -1807

CHAPTER XXII The Genesis of the Peninsular War -1808

CHAPTER XXIII Glory at Erfurt and Humiliation in Spain (1808 - 1809)

CHAPTER XXIV The Austrian Campaign -1809

CHAPTER XXV The Austrian Campaign continued -1809

CHAPTER XXVI The War in Poland and Tyrol -1809

CHAPTER XXVII A Broken Friendship and what it Brought (1810 - 1812)

CHAPTER XXVIII The Russian Campaign -1812

CHAPTER XXIX The Triumphal Entry into Moscow and after -1812

CHAPTER XXX The March of Humiliation -1812

CHAPTER XXXI The Beginning of the End The Leipzig Campaign -1813

CHAPTER XXXII The Conquest of the Conqueror (1814 - 1821)

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THE STORY OF NAPOLEON
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,
F.R.Hist.S.

THE STORY OF NELSON
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,
F.R.Hist.S.

THE STORY OF WELLINGTON
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,
F.R.Hist.S.

FAMOUS VOYAGES OF THE GREAT DISCOVERERS
By Eric Wood.

THE STORY OF THE CRUSADES
By E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, F.R.Hist.S.

STORIES OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER
By Mr and Mrs William Platt.

HEROES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
By E. M. Tappan, Ph.D.

HEROES OF MODERN EUROPE
By Alice Birkhead, B.A.

THE CONQUERORS OF PERU
Retold from Prescott by Henry Gilbert.

THE NORTHMEN IN BRITAIN
By Eleanor Hull.

STORIES FROM DUTCH HISTORY
By Arthur H. Dawson.

THE STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
By Alice Birkhead, B.A.

THE CONQUERORS OF MEXICO
Retold from Prescott by Henry Gilbert.

STORIES FROM GERMAN HISTORY
By Florence Aston.

THE STORY OF LORD ROBERTS
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,
F.R.Hist.S.


Napoleon I., Emperor of the French

From the painting by David

Fr.


THE STORY OF
NAPOLEON

BY
Harold F. B. Wheeler
F.R.Hist.S.

JOINT-AUTHOR OF
‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’
AND ‘THE WAR IN WEXFORD’
AUTHOR OF ‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’ ETC.

There was an eye to see in this
man, a soul to dare and do. He rose
naturally to be the King. All men
saw that he
was such.’ Carlyle

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