The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4)
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leads the allies into Paris, 113;
schemes for French government, 114;
the representative of legitimacy, 114;
presides at the council for peace, 114;
deceived by the Parisians' reception, 113;
approves the Bourbon restoration, 114;
Caulaincourt seeks audience of, 116;
Marmont's offer to, 119;
hears Talleyrand's remonstrance against the regency, 125;
presentation of _N.'s_ abdication to, 124, 125;
hatred for absolutism, 126;
hears of the defection of _N.'s_ army, 126;
revulsion of feeling in favor of the Empire, 126;
refuses to accept the abdication, 129;
generous impulses, 132;
proposes a home for _N._ in Russia, 133;
alleged indelicacy of his visit to the Empress at Rambouillet, 135;
boast as to his servants, 138;
protests to Talleyrand against violations of treaty obligations, 153;
determines to retain ascendancy in the coalition, 169;
converted to the legitimacy idea, 224;
besought for _N.'s_ release, 231;
correspondence with:
Galitzin, Prince, iii. 311;
George III, iii. 181;
Marmont, iv. 119;
Napoleon, iii. 111, 113, 165, 315, 350.
=Alexander the Great=, _N._ likened to, i. 423; iii. 319; iv. 292;
_N.'s_ admiration for, ii. 15, 47, 147, 157;
his work for civilization, 157; iv. 251, 292;
his ideal, iii. 319;
the cause of his undoing, iv. 261.
=Alexandria=, _N.'s_ views concerning, ii. 47;
Nelson seeks the Egyptian expedition at, 57;
_N.'s_ arrival at, 57;
capture of, 58;
the march to Cairo from, 59;
Adm. Brueys ordered to, 61;
_N._ at, 66;
arrival of the Rhodes expedition at, 77;
English fleet at, 79;
_N._ sails from, 81;
England's occupation of, 280.
=Alfieri, Vittorio=, sings of Italian freedom, ii. 232; iv. 39.
=Alien Act=, England's position with regard to, ii. 271.
=Alkmaar=, capitulation of the Duke of York at, ii. 93;
capitulation of, 141.
=Alle, River=, military operations on the, iii. 29, 30.
=Allemand=, retreat of the French through, iv. 99.
=Allenburg=, Bennigsen collects his troops at, iii. 31.
=Allix, J. A. F.=, at Auxerre, iv. 102;
battle of Waterloo, 201.
"=All the Talents=," the ministry of, iii. 46.
=Almeida=, siege and capture of, iii. 284;
retaken by the English, 289.
=Alpon, River=, military operations on the, i. 389, 391.
=Alps, the=, military operations in, i. 213, 412, 426, 433;
ii. 160-173, 186, 187;
the keys of, i. 342, 355;
French supremacy in, ii. 96;
Suvaroff's disasters in, 141;
Hannibal's passage of, 169;
road across the Simplon, 233;
France's "natural boundary," iv. 41.
=Alsace=, Austria driven out of, i. 273;
royalists in, ii. 301;
Duc d'Enghien's conspiracy in, 301, 305;
regulations for Jews in, iii. 77;
proposed cession of, to Austria, iv. 67.
=Alten, K. A. von=, in battle of Waterloo, iv. 209.