English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2)Ashton, John
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English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2)
Ashton, John
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Caricatures and cartoons
Moore, Sir John, ii. 96
Mortier, General, i. 180
Moses, the new, or Bonaparte’s Ten Commandments, i. 205
Mourad Bey, i. 66
Mulgrave, Lord, ii. 36
Murat, Joachim, i. 66, 112; ii. 53, 80, 113, 126, 131
Napoleon, vol. i.--
his ancestry, 1;
his own account, 1;
his brother’s account, 2;
pedigree by Don Antonio Furio, 2;
his Greek extraction, 3;
excites the Greeks to revolt, 3;
his family name--Καλόμερις, 3-5;
biographies by English satirists, 5, 6;
descent from the ‘Man in the Iron Mask,’ 7;
anagrams, &c., on his name, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13;
Nicholas as his baptismal name, 8;
legend of Saint Napolione, 8;
the Apocalyptic beast, and its connection with Napoleon, 9-13;
disputed and real dates of his birth, 13, 14;
his real godparents, 14;
Count Marbœuf, his putative father, 15-17;
poverty of the family, 17;
personal appearance as a boy, 18;
his own description of himself, 18;
goes to the military school at Brienne, 19;
behaviour at school, 19-21;
leaves Brienne and goes to the Ecole Militaire at Paris, 22;
appointed second lieutenant of artillery, 22;
anecdote of Madame Junot’s sister and Napoleon--_Puss in
Boots_, 22-24;
his poverty when sub-lieutenant, 24;
journey to Corsica, 24;
application to the British Government for service, 24;
his supposed visit to London, 25;
his personal appearance in 1793, 26;
promoted to be commandant of artillery, 27;
supersedes General Cartaux, 27;
taking of Toulon and conduct of the French, 27, 28;
again promoted, 29;
goes on a diplomatic errand to Genoa, 29;
his poverty at that time, 29, 30;
revolt of the Sections, 30-32;
made General of the Interior and Governor of Paris, 32;
his marriage with Josephine, 40, 41;
short honeymoon, 41;
made commander-in-chief of the army of Italy, 43;
visits his mother, 43;
battle of Montenotte, 43;
bad state of the French army, 43;
victories of the Italian campaign, 44, 45;
Bonaparte and Berthier, 45;
story of a game at cards with him, 45, 46;
Napoleon’s exactions in Italy, and spoliation of works of
art, 48, 49;
siege of Mantua, 49;
interview with General Würmser’s aide-de-camp, 49, 50;
surrender of Mantua, 50;
‘The French Bugabo,’ probably the earliest English caricature, 50;
is promoted to the command of ‘the Army of England,’ 52;
abandons the invasion of England, 56;
expedition to Egypt, 59;
starting of the Fleet, 60;
landing in Egypt, 60;
Napoleon as a Mahometan, 60-63;
atrocities on landing at Alexandria, 64;
his hatred of England, 65;
march across the desert, 66;
battle of the Pyramids, 66;
march on, and entry into, Cairo, 66, 67;
battle of the Nile or Aboukir, 67;
its effect upon Napoleon, 67;
revolt at Cairo, 77;
slaughter of the inhabitants, 77, 78;
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