The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

The Chief Consul writes to the King of England--Lord Grenville's Answer--Napoleon passes the Great St. Bernard--The taking of St. Bard--The Siege of Genoa--The Battle of Montebe...

Napoleon at St. Helena--The Briars--Longwood--Charges against the English Government respecting his accommodations and treatment at St. Helena--Charges against the Governor, Sir...

Recommencement of the War--French seize Hanover and Naples--the English seize various French colonies--Scheme of invading England resumed--Moreau--Pichegru--Georges Cadoudal--Ca...

Peace of Amiens--The Concordat--The Legion of Honour--Buonaparte President of the Cisalpine Republic--First Consul for Life--Grand Mediator of the Helvetic Confederacy--St. Domi...

Napoleon continued for several days to manoeuvre on the country beyond St. Dizier. Having thus seized the roads by which the Grand Army had advanced, he took prisoners many pers...

The Decrees of Berlin--Napoleon renews the campaign--Warsaw taken--Enthusiasm of the Poles--Retreat of the Russians--Battle of Pultusk--The French go into winter quarters--Battl...

New coalition against France--Sweden--Russia--Austria joins the Alliance--Napoleon heads the Army in Germany--Ulm surrendered by Mack--Vienna taken--Naval Operations--Battle of...

The armistice, such as it was, between Joachim and Kutusoff, was broken through so soon as the latter had sufficiently disciplined the new recruits who had crowded to his standa...

Before Nelson's arrival, Buonaparte is said to have meditated returning to France, for the purpose of extorting from the government those supplies of various kinds which, on act...

Napoleon's Interview with Metternich--Advice of his Ministers and Generals--Intelligence from Spain--Battle of Vittoria--Congress of Prague Dissolved--Austria declares War--Batt...

The Campaign of France--Battles of Brienne and La Rothiere--Expedition of the Marne--Battles of Nangis and Montereau--Schwartzenberg Retreats--Napoleon again marches against Blu...

Affairs of Corsica--Alvinzi assumes the Command of the Austrians on the Italian frontier--The three Battles of Arcola--Retreat of Alvinzi--Battle of Rivoli--Battle of La Favorit...

Capture of Ciudad Rodrigo--and of Badajos--Battle of Salamanca--State of Napoleon's Foreign Relations--His Military Resources--Napoleon at Dresden--Rupture with Russia--Napoleon...

While the negotiations at Rastadt were still in progress, the Directory, on the most flimsy of pretences, marched an army into Switzerland; and, by vast superiority of numbers,...

Napoleon appeals in vain to the Chambers--Abdicates for the second time--Is sent to Malmaison--And then to Rochefort--Negotiates with Capt. Maitland--Embarks in the _Bellerophon...

Austria declares War--Napoleon heads his army in Germany--Battles of Landshut and Eckmuhl--Ratisbonne taken--Napoleon in Vienna--Hostilities in Italy, Hungary, Poland, the North...

The French cross the Po at Placenza--The Battle of Fombio--The Bridge of Lodi--Napoleon occupies Milan--Resigns, and resumes his command--Insurrection of Pavia--Military Executi...

Napoleon heads his army on the Belgian frontier--Passes the Sambre at Charleroi--Defeats Blucher at Ligny--Battle of Quatre-Bras--The English fall back on a position previously...

Discontent of Prussia--Death of Pitt--Negotiation of Lords Yarmouth and Lauderdale broken off--Murder of Palm, the bookseller--Prussia declares War--Buonaparte heads the Army--N...

Russia makes Peace with England, with Sweden, and with Turkey--Internal preparations--Napoleon leaves Wilna--The Dwina--Bagrathion's Movements--Battle of Smolensko--Battle of Bo...

Napoleon divorces Josephine--Marries the Archduchess Maria Louisa--Deposes Louis Buonaparte--Annexes Holland and the whole Coast of Germany to France--Revolution in Sweden--Bern...

Of the events which crowded upon each other in the space of a few weeks after the overthrow of Leipsig, any one would in times less extraordinary have been sufficient to form an...

Insurrection of the Spaniards and Portuguese--Their Alliance with England--Battle of Riosecco--Joseph enters Madrid--First Siege of Zaragossa--Dupont's March into Andalusia--The...

Napoleon at Rastadt--He arrives in Paris--His reception by the Directory--His Conduct and Manners--He is appointed to command the Army for the Invasion of England--He recommends...

Relations of Napoleon with Spain--Treaty of Fontainebleau--Junot marches to Portugal--Flight of the Braganzas to Brazil--French troops proceed into Spain--Dissensions in the Cou...

The upper population of Paris had watched the stormy days of the 18th and 19th Brumaire with the most anxious fears, lest the end should be anarchy and the re-establishment of t...

The Hundred Days--Declaration of the Congress at Vienna--Napoleon prepares for War--Capitulation of the Duke d'Angouleme--Insurrection of La Vendee--Murat advances from Naples--...

Three Spanish armies, each unfortunately under an independent chief, were at length in motion: their nominal strength was 130,000 men; in reality they never exceeded 100,000. Ha...

Some allusion has already been made to the news of a political disturbance in Paris, which reached Napoleon during his retreat from Moscow, and quickened his final abandonment o...

Four commissioners, one from each of the great Allied Powers, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and England, accompanied Buonaparte on his journey. He was attended by Bertrand, Grand Ma...

Buonaparte Chief of Battalion at Nice--Fall of Robespierre--He is superseded--Buonaparte at Paris in 1795--The day of the Sections--Commands the Army of the Interior--Marries Jo...

Events of the year 1811--Birth of the King of Rome--Disgrace of Fouche--Discontents in France--Relations with Russia--Licence System--Napoleon prepares for War with Russia--The...

The evening before Napoleon sailed (February the 26th), his sister Pauline gave a ball, to which all the officers of the Elbese army were invited. A brig (the _Inconstant_) and...

The French fleet was reinforced, ere it had proceeded far on its way, by General Dessaix, and his division from Italy; and, having prosperous winds, appeared on the 10th of June...

Birth and Parentage of Napoleon Buonaparte--His Education at Brienne and at Paris--His Character at this Period--His Political Predilections--He enters the Army as Second Lieute...

Wurmser supersedes Beaulieu--Jourdan and Moreau march into Germany, and are forced to retreat again--The Austrians advance from the Tyrol--Battle of Lonato--Escape of Napoleon--...

In their last agony the Venetian Senate made a vain effort to secure the personal protection of the general, by offering him a purse of seven millions of francs. He rejected thi...

Napoleon, having left strong garrisons in the maritime cities of Poland and Northern Germany, returned to Paris in August, and was received by the Senate and other public bodies...

Affairs of Naples and of the Pope--The Emperor Paul of Russia--Northern confederacy against England--Battle of Copenhagen--Nelson's Victory--Death of Paul--Expedition to Egypt u...

Buonaparte's first military service occurred, as we have seen, in the summer of 1793. The king of France had been put to death on the 21st of January in that year; and in less t...

Buonaparte at the age of twenty-six assumed the command of the army of Italy; exulting in the knowledge that, if he should conquer, the honour would be all his own. He had worke...

Napoleon was now master of all northern Italy, with the exception of the territories of Venice, which antique government, though no longer qualified to keep equal rank with the...