The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,346 pages of information about The Life of Napoleon I (Complete).

The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,346 pages of information about The Life of Napoleon I (Complete).

VOL.  II

     XXII.  Ulm and Trafalgar
    xxiii.  Austerlitz
     xxiv.  Prussia and the new Charlemagne
      xxv.  The fall of Prussia
     xxvi.  The continental system:  Friedland
    xxvii.  Tilsit
   xxviii.  The Spanish rising
     xxix.  Erfurt
      xxx.  Napoleon and Austria
     xxxi.  The empire at its height
    xxxii.  The Russian campaign
   xxxiii.  The first saxon campaign
    xxxiv.  Vittoria and the armistice
     xxxv.  Dresden and Leipzig
    XXXVI.  From the Rhine to the Seine
   XXXVII.  The first abdication
  xxxviii.  Elba and Paris
    xxxix.  Ligny and quatre Bras
       XL.  Waterloo
      XLI.  From the Elysee to st. Helena
     XLII.  Closing years

Appendix I:  List of the chief appointments
and dignities bestowed by napoleon

APPENDIX II:  THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

INDEX

MAPS AND PLANS

Battle of Ulm
battle of Austerlitz
battle of Jena
battle of Friedland
battle of Wagram
central Europe after 1810
campaign in Russia
battle of Vittoria
the campaign of 1813
battle of Dresden
battle of Leipzig
the campaign of 1814 to face
plan of the Waterloo campaign
battle of Ligny
battle of Waterloo, about 11 o’clock a.m. to face
ST. HELENA

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.

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

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  " 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: 

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