قراءة كتاب The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)

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The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)

The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)

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435 XXXIX. LIGNY AND QUATRE BRAS 453 XL. WATERLOO 487 XLI. FROM THE ELYSÉE TO ST. HELENA 512 XLII. CLOSING YEARS 539 APPENDIX I: LIST OF THE CHIEF APPOINTMENTS
    AND DIGNITIES BESTOWED BY NAPOLEON 575 APPENDIX II: THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO 577 INDEX 579 MAPS AND PLANS BATTLE OF ULM 15 BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ 39 BATTLE OF JENA 95 BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND 121 BATTLE OF WAGRAM 196 CENTRAL EUROPE AFTER 1810 215 CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA 247 BATTLE OF VITTORIA 310 THE CAMPAIGN OF 1813 336 BATTLE OF DRESDEN 343 BATTLE OF LEIPZIG 357 THE CAMPAIGN OF 1814 to face 383 PLAN OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN 458 BATTLE OF LIGNY 465 BATTLE OF WATERLOO, about 11 o'clock a.m. to face 490 ST. HELENA 540 FOOTNOTES INDEX






VOLUME I






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NOTE ON THE REPUBLICAN CALENDAR


The republican calendar consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, each month being divided into three "decades" of ten days. Five days (in leap years six) were added at the end of the year to bring it into coincidence with the solar year.

An    I    began Sept. 22,  1792.
  "    II     "      "       1793.
  "   III     "      "       1794.
  "    IV (leap year)        1795.

       *       *       *       *       *

  "  VIII    began Sept. 22, 1799.
  "    IX      "   Sept. 23, 1800.
  "     X      "      "      1801.

       *       *       *       *       *

  "   XIV      "      "      1805.

The new computation, though reckoned from Sept. 22, 1792, was not introduced until Nov. 26, 1793 (An II). It ceased after Dec. 31, 1805.

The months are as follows:

    Vendémiaire              Sept. 22   to  Oct. 21.
    Brumaire                 Oct. 22    "   Nov. 20.
    Frimaire                 Nov. 21    "   Dec. 20.
    Nivôse                   Dec. 21    "   Jan. 19.
    Pluviôse                 Jan. 20    "   Feb. 18.
    Ventôse                  Feb. 19    "   Mar. 20.
    Germinal                 Mar. 21    "   April

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