CONCLUSION 489 INDEX 507 Illustrations Page NAPOLEON BONAPARTE "SNUFF-BOX" PORTRAIT _Frontispiece_ BONAPARTE AT THE SIEGE OF TOULON 11 BONAPARTE ESCAPES CAPTURE AT LONATO 27 BONAPARTE AT THE BRIDGE OF ARCOLA 43 BONAPARTE AT THE BATTLE OF RIVOLI 59 BONAPARTE AND THE SLEEPING SENTINEL 75 BONAPARTE AT THE BATTLE OF ST. GEORGE 91 SIEGE OF MANTUA 107 BONAPARTE AS GENERAL-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF ITALY 123 BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS 139 BONAPARTE AT THE SIEGE OF ACRE 155 RETURN OF THE FRENCH ARMY FROM SYRIA 171 NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS 187 FRENCH TROOPS CROSSING THE GREAT ST. BERNARD 203 CAPITULATION OF GENERAL MACK AT ULM 219 BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ 235 MEETING BETWEEN NAPOLEON AND FRANCIS II. OF AUSTRIA 251 NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OF JENA 267 ENTRY OF NAPOLEON INTO BERLIN 283 NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OF EYLAU 299 THE 14TH LINE AT EYLAU 315 NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND 331 REVIEW OF TROOPS IN THE PLACE DU CARROUSEL, PARIS 347 INSURRECTION IN MADRID 363 NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OF WAGRAM 379 ARRIVAL OF THE GRAND ARMY AT MOSCOW 395 RETREAT FROM MOSCOW, "1812" 411 DEPARTURE OF NAPOLEON FOR PARIS 427 RETURN OF NAPOLEON FROM ELBA 443 NAPOLEON ON THE HEIGHTS AT LIGNY 459 PREPARATIONS FOR THE ADVANCE OF THE OLD GUARD AT WATERLOO 475 NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO 491 Military Career OF Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny" I BOYHOOD DAYS AND EARLY CAREER When Napoleon was a pupil of the Military School at Brienne, as a pensioner of the king, he wrote to his mother in Corsica: "With Homer in my pocket, and my sword by my side, I hope to carve my way through the world!" Bonaparte was then a youth of but ten years of age. For nearly thirty-five years from this time his life was a series of achievements, the success of which has rarely been equalled,--from a military standpoint, never.