Produced by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Unusual subscripts have been marked with ^, e.g.: V^te for Vicomte.] [Illustration: From the collection of W. C. Crane. Engraved by T. Levasseur. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. Drawn by F. Gerard.] THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BY WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE PH.D., L.H.D., LL.D. _Professor of History in Columbia University_ Revised and Enlarged With Portraits VOLUME III [Illustration: Editor's arm.] NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1916 Copyright, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910 BY THE CENTURY CO. _Published, October, 1910_ CONTENTS CHAPTER Page I. War with Russia: Pultusk................................ 1 II. Check to the Grand Army: Eylau......................... 12 III. An Indecisive Victory: Friedland....................... 24 IV. Napoleon and Alexander at Tilsit....................... 39 V. The Treaty of Tilsit................................... 54 VI. The Path of Napoleonic Empire.......................... 66 VII. The New Feudalism...................................... 80 VIII. The Empires of Land and Ocean.......................... 97 IX. French Empire and European Nationality................ 115 X. The Awakening of Spain................................ 137 XI. The First Revolt of Nations........................... 153 XII. Napoleon and Alexander at Erfurt...................... 171 XIII. The Failure of the Spanish Campaign................... 182 XIV. The Transformation of Austria......................... 192 XV. The Fifth War with Austria--Eckmuehl................... 202 XVI. Aspern, Essling, and Wagram........................... 218 XVII. The Peace of Schoenbrunn............................... 233 XVIII. Napoleon's Fatal Decision............................. 244 XIX. The Austrian Marriage................................. 251 XX. Rigors of the Continental System...................... 262 XXI. The Continental System Completed...................... 274 XXII. The Course of the Peninsular War...................... 282 XXIII. Birth of the King of Rome............................. 293 XXIV. Tension Between Emperor and Czar...................... 303