Category: History - European
_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...
_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...