The present book is a collected history of the life and times of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He has been one of those extremely famous characters of the world history about whom the historians and writers never stopped writing. His genius for war and conquest had upset many a throne while he secured the lordship of Europe for himself to eventually consign to an island prison. His fame began from when the giant upheaval known as the French Revolution had thrown the Great Britain out of gear. As the proverb rightly says, he was ‘born to rule men’; he showed his brilliance not just as a conqueror but as an organiser too by bringing the scattered masses together, ‘recreated Government and the armies, made laws, and re-established religion’ to lead people to civilized order.
The author has put in lots of efforts to research and gather information in creating this volume which would be of much use and importance to those whose keen interest lies in studying the brilliance of warship and rule of one of the greatest rulers of the world’s history – Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Contents

Author’s Note — Pg. 7

1. Napoleon the Boy (1769-1778) — Pg. 15

2. The Schooldays of Napoleon (1779-1784) — Pg. 20

3. Napoleon as Officer and Author (1784-1791) — Pg. 27

4. Napoleon and the Corsican Volunteers (1791-1792) — Pg. 37

5. The Eve of the Reign of Terror (1792-1793) — Pg. 42

6. Napoleon’s First Fight with the English (1793) — Pg. 50

7. Napoleon the Soldier of Fortune (1794-1796) — Pg. 56

8. ”The Spark of Great Ambition” (1796) — Pg. 63

9. The Italian Campaign (1796-1797) — Pg. 69

10. The Expedition to Egypt (1798) — Pg. 77

11. From Cairo to Fréjus (1798-1799) — Pg. 84

12. How Napoleon Seized the Reins of Government (1799) — Pg. 90

13. The Passage of the Alps (1799-1801) — Pg. 95

14. Blessings of Peace (1801-1803) — Pg. 106

15. The Dawn of the Empire (1803-1804) — Pg. 112

16. The Threatened Invasion of England and its Sequel (1804-1805) — Pg. 118

17. The War of the Third Coalition (1805-6) — Pg. 125

18. The Prussian Campaign (1806) — Pg. 133

19. The Polish Campaign (1806-7) — Pg. 143

20. Friedland and Tilsit (1807) — Pg. 148

21. Napoleon’s Commercial War with Great Britain (1807) — Pg. 154

22. The Genesis of the Peninsular War (1808) — Pg. 163

23. Glory at Erfurt and Humiliation in Spain (1808-1809) — Pg. 174

24. The Austrian Campaign (1809) — Pg. 184

25. The Austrian Campaign continued (1809) — Pg. 195

26. The War in Poland and Tyrol (1809) — Pg. 201

27. A Broken Friendship and What it Brought (1810-1812) — Pg. 210

28. The Russian Campaign (1812) — Pg. 220

29. The Triumphal Entry into Moscow and after (1812) — Pg. 229

30. The March of Humiliation (1812) — Pg. 236

31. The Beginning of the End The Leipzig Campaign (1813) — Pg. 242

32. The Conquest of the Conqueror (1814-1821) — Pg. 250

References — Pg. 262

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