The Life of Napoleon I | Page 3

"New Letters of Napoleon" are those edited by Léon
Lecestre, and translated into English by Lady Mary Loyd, except in a
very few cases where M. Léonce de Brotonne's still more recent edition
is cited under his name. By "F.O.," France, No.----, and "F.O.," Prussia,
No.----, are meant the volumes of our Foreign Office despatches
relating to France and Prussia. For the sake of brevity I have called
Napoleon's Marshals and high officials by their names, not by their
titles: but a list of these is given at the close of vol. ii.]

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
The demand for this work so far exceeded my expectations that I was
unable to make any considerable changes in the second edition, issued
in March, 1902; and circumstances again make it impossible for me to
give the work that thorough recension which I should desire. I have,
however, carefully considered the suggestions offered by critics, and
have adopted them in some cases. Professor Fournier of Vienna has
most kindly furnished me with details which seem to relegate to the
domain of legend the famous ice catastrophe at Austerlitz; and I have
added a note to this effect on p. 50 of vol. ii. On the other hand, I may

justly claim that the publication of Count Balmain's reports relating to
St. Helena has served to corroborate, in all important details, my
account of Napoleon's captivity.
It only remains to add that I much regret the omission of Mr. Oman's
name from II. 12-13 of page viii of the Preface, an omission rendered
all the more conspicuous by the appearance of the first volume of his
"History of the Peninsular War" in the spring of this year.
J.H.R.
October, 1902.
Notes have been added at the end of ch. v., vol. i.; chs. xxii., xxiii.,
xxviii., xxix., xxxv., vol. ii.; and an Appendix on the Battle of Waterloo
has been added on p. 577, vol. ii.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
VOL.
I
NOTE ON THE REPUBLICAN CALENDAR
I. PARENTAGE AND EARLY YEARS
II. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND CORSICA
III. TOULON
IV. VENDÉMIAIRE

V. THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN (1796)
VI. THE FIGHTS FOR MANTUA
VII. LEOBEN TO CAMPO FORMIO
VIII. EGYPT
IX. SYRIA
X. BRUMAIRE
XI. MARENGO: LUNÉVILLE
XII. THE NEW INSTITUTIONS OF FRANCE
XIII. THE CONSULATE FOR LIFE
XIV. THE PEACE OF AMIENS
XV. A FRENCH COLONIAL EMPIRE: ST.
DOMINGO--LOUISIANA--INDIA--AUSTRALIA
XVI. NAPOLEON'S INTERVENTIONS
XVII. THE RENEWAL OF WAR
XVIII. EUROPE AND THE BONAPARTES
XIX. THE ROYALIST PLOT
XX. THE DAWN OF THE EMPIRE
XXI. THE BOULOGNE FLOTILLA
APPENDIX: REPORTS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED ON (a) THE
SALE OF LOUISIANA; (b) THE IRISH DIVISION IN
NAPOLEON'S SERVICE

ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND PLANS
THE SIEGE OF TOULON, 1793
MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE CAMPAIGNS IN NORTH ITALY
PLAN TO ILLUSTRATE THE VICTORY OF ARCOLA
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF RIVOLI
FACSIMILE OF A LETTER OF NAPOLEON TO "LA CITOYENNE
TALLIEN," 1797
CENTRAL EUROPE, after the Peace of Campo Formio, 1797
PLAN OF THE SIEGE OF ACRE, from a contemporary sketch
THE BATTLE OF MARENGO, to illustrate Kellermann's charge
FRENCH MAP OF THE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIA, 1807
VOL. II
XXII. ULM AND TRAFALGAR XXIII. AUSTERLITZ XXIV.
PRUSSIA AND THE NEW CHARLEMAGNE XXV. THE FALL OF
PRUSSIA XXVI. THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM: FRIEDLAND
XXVII. TILSIT XXVIII. THE SPANISH RISING XXIX. ERFURT
XXX. NAPOLEON AND AUSTRIA XXXI. THE EMPIRE AT ITS
HEIGHT XXXII. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN XXXIII. THE FIRST
SAXON CAMPAIGN XXXIV. VITTORIA AND THE ARMISTICE
XXXV. DRESDEN AND LEIPZIG XXXVI. FROM THE RHINE TO
THE SEINE XXXVII. THE FIRST ABDICATION XXXVIII. ELBA
AND PARIS XXXIX. LIGNY AND QUATRE BRAS XL.
WATERLOO XLI. FROM THE ELYSÉE TO ST. HELENA XLII.
CLOSING YEARS
APPENDIX I: LIST OF THE CHIEF APPOINTMENTS AND
DIGNITIES BESTOWED BY NAPOLEON

APPENDIX II: THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
INDEX
MAPS AND PLANS
BATTLE OF ULM BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ BATTLE OF JENA
BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND BATTLE OF WAGRAM CENTRAL
EUROPE AFTER 1810 CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA BATTLE OF
VITTORIA THE CAMPAIGN OF 1813 BATTLE OF DRESDEN
BATTLE OF LEIPZIG THE CAMPAIGN OF 1814 to face PLAN OF
THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN BATTLE OF LIGNY BATTLE OF
WATERLOO, about 11 o'clock a.m. to face ST. HELENA

NOTE ON THE REPUBLICAN CALENDAR
The republican calendar consisted of twelve months of thirty days each,
each month being divided into three "decades" of ten days. Five days
(in leap years six) were added at the end of the year to bring it into
coincidence with the solar year.
An I began Sept. 22, 1792. " II " " 1793. " III " " 1794. " IV (leap year)
1795.
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" VIII began Sept. 22, 1799. " IX " Sept. 23, 1800. " X " " 1801.
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" XIV " " 1805.
The new computation, though reckoned from Sept.