[Illustration: _Bonaparte_] As General-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expedition, Napoleon signed as follows: [Illustration: _Bonaparte_] From Cairo, the 30th of July, 1798, he signed himself _Bonaparte_. [Illustration: _Bonaparte_] When he first became Emperor, he signed himself _Napoleon_. [Illustration: _Napoleon_] The above is one of the first signatures of the Emperor. It was given at Saint Cloud, the 25th of May, 1804. The first three letters NAPoleon, and exactly like this in the middle of his signature when he was accustomed to signing himself BuoNAParte. Up to 1805 he continued to sign his whole name. The 18th of September, 1805, he signed: [Illustration: _Napoleon_] After the battle of Austerlitz, which ended the campaign of 1805, the proclamation of Napoleon, dated from the Imperial Camp of Austerlitz, the 3rd of December, 1805, was signed _Napoleon_. [Illustration: _Napoleon_] Beginning with the campaign of 1806, he signed only the first five letters of his name, thus, _Napol_. [Illustration: _Napol_] The 26th of October, 1806, at Potsdam, the Emperor signed himself thus, [Illustration: _Napol_] The 29th of October, 1806, from Berlin, as follows: [Illustration: _Napol_] The 27th of January, from Varsovia, [Illustration: _Napol_] From the Imperial Camp at Tilsit, the 22nd of June, 1807, the Emperor signed only his initial, as below, and very rarely after that his entire name: _N_. [Illustration: _N._] The 7th of December, 1808, he signed from Madrid, thus, _N_. [Illustration: _N._] At the commencement of the campaign of 1809, in writing to Marshall Masséna, he signed himself as follows: [Illustration: _Napoleon_] From the Imperial Camp of Ratisbonne, the 24th of April, 1809, the Emperor addressed a proclamation to the Army, ending thus, “Before a month has passed, I shall be at Vienna,” and he signed [Illustration: _Napoleon_] Less than three weeks afterwards, the French Army was at Vienna, and the Emperor signed his decrees from the Palace of Schoenbrunn, 13th of May: [Illustration: _Napoleon_] The same variety of signatures is found in the orders dated Moscow, the city which he had entered as a Conqueror, the 12th of September, 1812. [Illustration: _Napoleon_] The 21st of Sept., 1812, at 3 o’clock in the morning, the Emperor signed himself as follows: [Illustration: _Napoleon_] During the campaign of 1813, the Emperor sent an order from Dresden to the Major-General, dated October 1st, at noon. General Petit relates that he reflected some time before sending it, for the signature had been scratched out twice, and written a third time. [Illustration: _Napoleon_] One of the next extraordinary signatures of the Emperor’s, is the following, which he gave at Erfurt, October 13, 1813: [Illustration: _N._] The 4th of April, 1814, Fontainebleau, thus, _N_. [Illustration: _N._] The 9th of September, 1814, from the Isle of Elba, he writes thus: _Nap_. [Illustration: _Napoleon_]