The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Vol. 1-4). William Milligan Sloane
William Milligan Sloane
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Vol. 1-4)
Complete Edition
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Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE LIBRARY EDITION
CHAPTER II. The Bonapartes in Corsica.
CHAPTER III. Napoleon's Birth and Childhood.
CHAPTER IV. Napoleon's School-days.
CHAPTER V. In Paris and Valence
CHAPTER VI. Private Study and Garrison Life.
CHAPTER VII. Further Attempts at Authorship.
CHAPTER VIII. The Revolution in France.
CHAPTER IX. Buonaparte and Revolution in Corsica.
CHAPTER X. First Lessons in Revolution.
CHAPTER XI. Traits of Character.
CHAPTER XII. The Revolution in the Rhone Valley.
CHAPTER XIII. Buonaparte the Corsican Jacobin.
CHAPTER XIV. Buonaparte the French Jacobin.
CHAPTER XVI. "The Supper of Beaucaire".
CHAPTER XVIII. A Jacobin General.
CHAPTER XIX. Vicissitudes in War and Diplomacy.
CHAPTER XX. The End of Apprenticeship.
CHAPTER XXI. The Antechamber to Success.
CHAPTER XXII. Bonaparte the General of the Convention.
CHAPTER XXIII. The Day of the Paris Sections.
CHAPTER XXIV. A Marriage of Inclination and Interest.
CHAPTER XXV. Europe and the Directory.
CHAPTER XXVI. Bonaparte on a Great Stage.
CHAPTER XXVII. The Conquest of Piedmont and the Milanese.
CHAPTER XXVIII. An Insubordinate Conqueror and Diplomatist.
CHAPTER XXIX. Bassano and Arcola.
CHAPTER XXX. Bonaparte's Imperious Spirit.
CHAPTER XXXI. Rivoli and the Capitulation of Mantua.
CHAPTER XXXII. Humiliation of the Papacy and of Venice[69].
CHAPTER XXXIII. The Preliminaries of Peace—Leoben.
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Fall of Venice.
PREFACE TO THE LIBRARY EDITION
This life of Napoleon was first published in 1896 as a book: for the years 1895–96 it ran as a serial in the pages of the Century Magazine. Judging from the sales, it has been read by many tens if not hundreds of thousands of readers; and it has been extensively noticed in the critical journals of both worlds. Throughout these fourteen years the demand has been very large and steady, considering the size and cost of the volumes. Both publishers and author have determined therefore that a library edition was desired by the public, and in that confidence the book has been partly rewritten and entirely remade.
In the main it is the same book as that which has passed through so many editions. But in some respects it has been amplified. The portion relating to the period of youth has been somewhat expanded, the personalities of those nearest to Napoleon have been in some cases more broadly sketched, new chapters have been added to the treatment of the Continental system, the Louisiana Purchase,