The Story of Napoleon

About this eBook

Author

Wheeler, Harold, 1877-

Credits

Produced by Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco

Subject

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50910

Release Date

January 13, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE STORY OF NAPOLEON
2. 2.Foreword
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.Illustrations
5. 5.The Story of Napoleon
6. 6.CHAPTER I Napoleon the Boy (1769–1778)
7. 7.CHAPTER II The Schooldays of Napoleon (1779–1784)
8. 8.CHAPTER III Napoleon as Officer and Author (1784–1791)
9. 9.CHAPTER IV Napoleon and the Corsican Volunteers (1791–1792)
10. 10.CHAPTER V The Eve of the Reign of Terror (1792–1793)
11. 11.CHAPTER VI Napoleon’s First Fight with the English (1793)
12. 12.CHAPTER VII Napoleon the Soldier of Fortune (1794–1796)
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII “The Spark of Great Ambition” (1796)
14. 14.CHAPTER IX The Italian Campaign (1796–1797)
15. 15.CHAPTER X The Expedition to Egypt (1798)
16. 16.CHAPTER XI From Cairo to Fréjus (1798–1799)
17. 17.CHAPTER XII How Napoleon Seized the Reins of Government (1799)
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII The Passage of the Alps (1799–1801)
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV Blessings of Peace (1801–1803)
20. 20.CHAPTER XV The Dawn of the Empire (1803–1804)
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI The Threatened Invasion of England and its Sequel (1804–1805)
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII The War of the Third Coalition (1805–6)
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII The Prussian Campaign (1806)
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX The Polish Campaign (1806–7)
25. 25.CHAPTER XX Friedland and Tilsit (1807)
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI Napoleon’s Commercial War with Great Britain (1807)
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII The Genesis of the Peninsular War (1808)
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII Glory at Erfurt and Humiliation in Spain (1808–1809)
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV The Austrian Campaign (1809)
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV The Austrian Campaign— continued (1809)
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI The War in Poland and Tyrol (1809)
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII A Broken Friendship and what it Brought (1810–1812)
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII The Russian Campaign (1812)
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX The Triumphal Entry into Moscow—and after (1812)
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX The March of Humiliation (1812)
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI The Beginning of the End—The Leipzig Campaign (1813)
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII The Conquest of the Conqueror (1814–1821)
38. 38.Index
39. 39.Transcriber’s Notes

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