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 IV

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1916

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

CONTENTS

• CHAPTER PAGE

• The Last Imperial Victory 1
• Politics and Strategy 11
• The End of the Grand Army 23
• The Frankfort Proposals 37
• The Invasion of France 47
• Napoleon's Supreme Effort 59
• The Great Captain at Bay 71
• The Struggles of Exhaustion 84
• The Beginning of the End 101
• The Fall of Paris 111
• Napoleon's First Abdication 123
• The Emperor of Elba 137
• Napoleon the Liberator 151
• The Dynasties Implacable 164
• Ligny and Quatre Bras 175
• The Eve of Waterloo 189
• Waterloo 199
• The Surrender 212
• St. Helena 224
• Soldier, Statesman, Despot 247
• Napoleon and the United States 268
• Napoleon's Place in History 285

• Historical Sources 303
• General Bibliography 307
• Index 355

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• Empress Marie Louise Frontispiece
• Napoleon in 1813 50
• Napoleon, François Charles Joseph, Prince Imperial; King of Rome; Duke of Reichstadt 98
• Map of the Field of Operations in 1814 104
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