Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Various Authors on Napoleon BonaparteVarious
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Various Authors on Napoleon Bonaparte
Various
Indexes; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Arms required to be delivered up 181
Lists of articles essential for the Trench officers and ladies forwarded to Plymouth 182
Sir George Cockburn is introduced to Buonaparte 182
Buonaparte permitted to wear his sword 183
(p. xx)He requests an interview with Captain Maitland 183
He expresses his wish of living on a small estate in England 185
He speaks in favour of Savary and Lallemand 185
Captain Maitland's letter to Count Bertrand 186
Lord Keith's order to the captain to deliver up General Buonaparte and others 187
General Gourgaud 190
Countess Bertrand's remonstrances 192
A misunderstanding and reconciliation 193
Napoleon returns thanks to Captain Maitland 194
He speaks with regard of Count Bertrand 195
Search of the baggage 196
The box of money temporarily taken charge of 197
Parting of Buonaparte with the captain 200
Buonaparte, accompanying Admiral Lord Keith, quits the Bellerophon 200
Count Montholon's polite intimation to Captain Maitland 201
The captain declines the present of a portrait 202
Savary and Lallemand; their affecting parting with Napoleon in the presence of Captain Maitland 203
The Northumberland sails for St Helena 204
Description of Napoleon Buonaparte 205
His manners and conversation 206
Anecdotes 207, 210, 215, 216
He speaks of his wife and his son 211
Their pictures 211, 212
Conversation respecting Kleber and Dessaix 213
Napoleon's resources in money 214
The midshipmen act plays 217
Buonaparte's observations on the British cavalry, and relative to the Duke of Wellington 218, 219
Character of Count Bertrand 222
Countess Bertrand, a daughter of General Dillon 222
Savary, Duke of Rovigo, described 224
(p. xxi)Savary, Lallemand, and Planat are sent to Malta, and allowed to go to Smyrna 225
Character of Lallemand 225
Count and Countess Montholon 226
Count Las Cases and his son 227
APPENDIX.
On what terms Captain Maitland received Buonaparte on board his ship; and documents relating thereto 231
ADDITIONAL APPENDIX.
1. List of officers borne on the books of H.M.S. Bellerophon in July 1815 241
2. Letter from Ephraim Graebke, assistant-surgeon on board the Bellerophon, to his mother, giving an account of Napoleon's surrender, dated July 30, 1815 242
3. Extracts from Memoirs of an Aristocrat, by a Midshipman of the Bellerophon [George Home] 246
(p. xxiii) ILLUSTRATIONS.
Portrait of Sir Frederick Maitland
Frontispiece From an engraving by Henry Meyer, after Samuel Woodford, R.A.
Portrait of Lady Maitland
lxviii From a miniature at Lindores.
Chart of the Basque Roads 1
Portrait of Napoleon
68 From a sketch taken on board the Bellerophon by Colonel Planat.
Napoleon on board the Bellerophon
108 From the picture by W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., in the Tate Gallery.
H.M.S. Bellerophon at Plymouth
132 From the picture by J. J. Chalon, R.A., in the Painted Hall at Greenwich.
Tumbler given to Captain Maitland by Napoleon
202 Photograph from the original at Lindores.
Facsimile of part of Sir Walter Scott's Notes on the "Narrative"
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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