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

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1916

Copyright, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910
BY
THE CENTURY CO.
Published, October, 1910

CONTENTS

• CHAPTER PAGE

• War with Russia: Pultusk 1
• Check to the Grand Army: Eylau 12
• An Indecisive Victory: Friedland 24
• Napoleon and Alexander at Tilsit 39
• The Treaty of Tilsit 54
• The Path of Napoleonic Empire 66
• The New Feudalism 80
• The Empires of Land and Ocean 97
• French Empire and European Nationality 115
• The Awakening of Spain 137
• The First Revolt of Nations 153
• Napoleon and Alexander at Erfurt 171
• The Failure of the Spanish Campaign 182
• The Transformation of Austria 192
• The Fifth War with Austria—Eckmühl 202
• Aspern, Essling, and Wagram 218
• The Peace of Schönbrunn 233
• Napoleon's Fatal Decision 244
• The Austrian Marriage 251
• Rigors of the Continental System 262
• The Continental System Completed 274
• The Course of the Peninsular War 282
• Birth of the King of Rome 293
• Tension Between Emperor and Czar 303
• The Array of Nations 313
• The Congress of Kings 325
• The Invasion of Russia—Borodino 335
• The Evacuation of Moscow 346
• The Retreat from Russia 357
• The Horrors of the Beresina 368
• The Prodigal's Return 378
• The Revolt of the Nations 388
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