CONTENTS CHAPTER page PREFACE VII NOTE ON THE REPUBLICAN CALENDAR XV VOLUME I I. PARENTAGE AND EARLY YEARS 1 II. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND CORSICA 24 III. TOULON 44 IV. VENDÉMIAIRE 57 V. THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN (1796) 77 VI. THE FIGHTS FOR MANTUA 105 VII. LEOBEN TO CAMPO FORMIO 140 VIII. EGYPT 174 IX. SYRIA 201 X. BRUMAIRE 216 XI. MARENGO: LUNÉVILLE 240 XII.THE NEW INSTITUTIONS OF FRANCE 266 XIII. THE CONSULATE FOR LIFE 302 XIV. THE PEACE OF AMIENS 331 XV. A FRENCH COLONIAL EMPIRE: ST. DOMINGO--LOUISIANA--INDIA--AUSTRALIA 355 XVI. NAPOLEON'S INTERVENTIONS 386 XVII. THE RENEWAL OF WAR 401 XVIII. EUROPE AND THE BONAPARTES 430 XIX. THE ROYALIST PLOT 446 XX. THE DAWN OF THE EMPIRE 465 XXI. THE BOULOGNE FLOTILLA 462 XXII. APPENDIX: REPORTS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED ON (a) THE SALE OF LOUISIANA; (b) THE IRISH DIVISION IN NAPOLEON'S SERVICE 509 ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND PLANS THE SIEGE OF TOULON, 1793 51 MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE CAMPAIGNS IN NORTH ITALY 81 PLAN TO ILLUSTRATE THE VICTORY OF ARCOLA 125 THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF RIVOLI 133 FACSIMILE OF A LETTER OF NAPOLEON TO "LA CITOYENNE TALLIEN," 1797 156 CENTRAL EUROPE, after the Peace of Campo Formio, 1797 171 PLAN OF THE SIEGE OF ACRE, from a contemporary sketch 205 THE BATTLE OF MARENGO, to illustrate Kellermann's charge 255 FRENCH MAP OF THE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIA, 1807 378 VOLUME II XXII. ULM AND TRAFALGAR 1 XXIII. AUSTERLITZ 29 XXIV. PRUSSIA AND THE NEW CHARLEMAGNE 51 XXV. THE FALL OF PRUSSIA 79 XXVI. THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM: FRIEDLAND 103 XXVII. TILSIT 125 XXVIII. THE SPANISH RISING 159 XXIX. ERFURT 174 XXX. NAPOLEON AND AUSTRIA 189 XXXI. THE EMPIRE AT ITS HEIGHT 208 XXXII. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN 231 XXXIII. THE FIRST SAXON CAMPAIGN 267 XXXIV. VITTORIA AND THE ARMISTICE 300 XXXV. DRESDEN AND LEIPZIG 329 XXXVI. FROM THE RHINE TO THE SEINE 368 XXXVII. THE FIRST ABDICATION 399 XXXVIII. ELBA AND PARIS 435 XXXIX. LIGNY AND QUATRE BRAS 453 XL. WATERLOO 487 XLI. FROM THE ELYSÉE TO ST. HELENA 512 XLII. CLOSING YEARS 539 APPENDIX I: LIST OF THE CHIEF APPOINTMENTS AND DIGNITIES BESTOWED BY NAPOLEON 575 APPENDIX II: THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO 577 INDEX 579 MAPS AND PLANS BATTLE OF ULM 15 BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ 39 BATTLE OF JENA 95 BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND 121 BATTLE OF WAGRAM 196 CENTRAL EUROPE AFTER 1810 215 CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA 247 BATTLE OF VITTORIA 310 THE CAMPAIGN OF 1813 336 BATTLE OF DRESDEN 343 BATTLE OF LEIPZIG 357 THE CAMPAIGN OF 1814 to face 383 PLAN OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN 458 BATTLE OF LIGNY 465 BATTLE OF WATERLOO, about 11 o'clock a.m. to face 490 ST. HELENA 540 FOOTNOTES INDEX THE HISTORY OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE By JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART