Contents
Harold Wheeler
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
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