Category: History - European

Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V.

_Buonaparte marches upon Blucher, who is in possession of Soissons--Attacks the place without success--Battle of Craonne--Blucher retreats on Laon--Battle of Laon--Napoleon is compelled to withdraw on the 11th--He attacks Rheims, which is evacuated by the Russians--Defeat at B...

Chapters

23. CHAPTER XCVII.

_Napoleon's Illness--viz. Cancer in the Stomach--Removal of Las Cases--Montholon's Complaints brought forward by Lord Holland--and replied to by Lord Bathurst--Effect of the fai...

10. CHAPTER LXXXIV.

_Carnot's Memorial on Public Affairs--Fouché joins the Jacobins--Projects of that Party; which finally joins the Buonapartists--Active Intrigues--Congress of Vienna--Murat, alar...

20. CHAPTER XCIV.

_Buonaparte's alleged grievances considered--Right to restrict his Liberty--Limits allowed Napoleon--Complaints urged by Las Cases against Sir George Cockburn--Sir Hudson Lowe a...

16. CHAPTER XC.

_Buonaparte's arrival at Paris--The Chambers assemble, and adopt Resolutions, indicating a wish for Napoleon's Abdication--Fouché presents Napoleon's Abdication, which stipulate...

9. CHAPTER LXXXIII.

_Retrospect--Restoration of the Bourbons displeasing to the Soldiery, but satisfactory to the People--Terms favourable to France granted by the Allies--Discontent about the mann...

15. CHAPTER LXXXIX.

_Strength of the two armies--Plans of their Generals--THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO commenced on the forenoon of the 18th June--French attack directed against the British centre--shift...

21. CHAPTER XCV.

_Instructions to Sir Hudson Lowe--Sum allowed for the Ex-Emperor's Expenses--Napoleon's proposal to defray his own Expenses--Sale of his Plate--made in order to produce a false...

2. CHAPTER LXXVI.

_Plans of Buonaparte--Military and Political Questions regarding Paris--Napoleon crosses the Marne on 22d March--Retrospect of Events in the vicinity of Lyons, &c.--Defeats of t...

17. CHAPTER XCI.

_Disposition of the British Fleet along the Western Coast of France, in order to prevent Buonaparte's Escape--The Bellerophon off Rochefort--Orders under which Captain Maitland...

22. CHAPTER XCVI.

_Napoleon's Domestic Habits--Manner in which he spent the day--his Dress--Nature of the Fragments of Memoirs he dictated to Gourgaud and Montholon--His admiration of Ossian--He...

8. CHAPTER LXXXII.

_Elba--Napoleon's mode of Life and occupation there--Effects of his residence at Elba upon the adjoining Kingdom of Italy--He is visited by his Mother and the Princess Pauline--...

6. CHAPTER LXXX.

_Victor, and other Maréchals give in their adhesion to the Provisional Government--Marmont enters into a separate Convention; but assists at the Conferences held at Paris, leavi...

5. CHAPTER LXXIX.

_The Allied Sovereigns issue a Proclamation that they will not treat with Buonaparte--A Provisional Government is named by the Conservative Senate, who also decree the forfeitur...

12. CHAPTER LXXXVI.

_Buonaparte's attempts to conciliate Britain--Plot to carry off Maria Louisa fails--State of feeling in France--The Army--The Jacobins--The Constitutionalists--Fouché and Siêyes...

18. CHAPTER XCII.

_Napoleon's real view of the measure of sending him to St. Helena--Allegation that Captain Maitland made terms with him--disproved--Probability that the insinuation arose with L...

11. CHAPTER LXXXV.

_Various attempts to organise a defence for the Bourbons fail--Buonaparte, again reinstated on the throne of France, is desirous of continuing the peace with the Allies--but no...

19. CHAPTER XCIII.

_Causes which justify the English Government in the measure of Napoleon's Banishment--Napoleon's wish to retire to England, in order that, being near France, he might again inte...

1. CHAPTER LXXV.

_Buonaparte marches upon Blucher, who is in possession of Soissons--Attacks the place without success--Battle of Craonne--Blucher retreats on Laon--Battle of Laon--Napoleon is c...

14. CHAPTER LXXXVIII.

_Army of Wellington covers Brussels--that of Blucher on the Sambre and Meuse--Napoleon reviews his Grand Army on 14th June--Advances upon Charleroi--His plan to separate the Arm...

3. CHAPTER LXXVII.

_State of Parties in Paris--Royalists--Revolutionists--Buonapartists --Talleyrand--Chateaubriand--Mission to the Allied Sovereigns--Their answer--Efforts of the Buonapartists--F...

13. CHAPTER LXXXVII.

_Preparations for War--Positions of the Allied Forces, amounting in whole to One Million of Men--Buonaparte's Force not more than 200,000--Conscription not ventured upon--Nation...

7. CHAPTER LXXXI.

_Commissioners appointed to escort Napoleon--He leaves Fontainbleau on the 20th April--His interview with Augereau at Valence--Expressions of popular dislike towards Napoleon in...

4. CHAPTER LXXVIII.

_Fears of the Parisians--Proceedings of Napoleon--Operations of the French Cavalry in rear of the Allies--Capture of Weissemberg--The Emperor Francis is nearly surprised--Napole...