LIFE OF NAPOLEON POCKET EDITION VOL. II. LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. VOL. 2. [Illustration: Vincennes] EDINBURGH; A. & C. BLACK. 1876 CONTENTS. PAGE CHAP. I.--Corsica--Family of Buonaparte--Napoleon born 15th August, 1769--His early Habits--Sent to the Royal Military School at Brienne--His great Progress in Mathematical Science--Deficiency in Classical Literature--Anecdotes--Removed to the General School of Paris--When in his Seventeenth Year, appointed Second Lieutenant of Artillery--His early Politics--Promoted to a Captaincy--Pascal Paoli--Napoleon sides with the French Government against Paoli--And is Banished from Corsica--Visits Marseilles, and Publishes the Souper de Beaucaire, 1 CHAP. II.--Siege of Toulon--Recapitulation--Buonaparte appointed to the Command of the Artillery at Toulon--Finds every thing in Disorder--His Plan for obtaining the Surrender of the Place Adopted--Anecdotes during the Siege--Allied Troops resolve to evacuate Toulon--Dreadful Particulars of the Evacuation--England Censured on this occasion--Lord Lynedoch--Fame of Buonaparte increases, and he is appointed Chief of Battalion in the Army of Italy--Joins Headquarters at Nice--On the Fall of Robespierre, Buonaparte superseded in Command--Arrives in Paris in May, 1795, to solicit Employment--He is unsuccessful--Retrospect of the Proceedings of the National Assembly--Difficulties in forming a New Constitution--Appointment of the Directory--Of the Two Councils of Elders and of Five Hundred--Nation at Large, and Paris in Particular, Disgusted with their Pretensions--Paris assembles in Sections--General Danican appointed their Commander-in-Chief--Menou appointed by the Directory to Disarm the National Guards--But Suspended for Incapacity--Buonaparte appointed in his Room--The Day of the Sections--Conflict betwixt the Troops of the Convention under Buonaparte, and those of the Sections of Paris under Danican--The latter Defeated with much Slaughter--Buonaparte appointed Second in Command of the Army of the Interior--Then General-in-Chief--Marries Madame Beauharnais--Her Character--Buonaparte immediately afterwards joins the Army of Italy, 14