The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

INDEX "—Well thy soul hath brooked the turning tide, With that untaught innate philosophy, Which, be it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride, Is gall and wormwood to an enemy. When the whole host of hatred stood hard by, To watch and mock thee shrinking, thou hast smiled With a sedate and all-enduring eye; When Fortune fled her spoiled and favourite child, He stood unbowed beneath the ills upon him piled." Among the visitors now alluded to was Captain Basil Hall: and he has, perhaps, presented the world with the most graphic sketch of Napoleon as he appeared on such occasions at Longwood. "Buonaparte" (says this traveller) "struck me (Aug. 13, 1817) as differing considerably from all the pictures and busts I had seen of him. His face and figure looked much broader and more square—larger, indeed, in every way, than any representation I had met with. His corpulency, at this time reported to be excessive, was by no means remarkable. His flesh looked, on the contrary, firm and muscular. There was not the least trace of colour in his cheeks; in fact, his skin was more like marble than ordinary flesh. Not the smallest wrinkle was discernible on his brow, nor an approach to a furrow on any part of his countenance. His health and spirits, judging from appearances, were excellent; though, at this period, it was generally believed in England that he was fast sinking under a complication of diseases, and that his spirits were entirely gone. His manner of speaking was rather slow than otherwise, and perfectly distinct: and he waited with great patience and kindness for my answers to his questions. The brilliant and sometimes dazzling expression of his eye could not be overlooked. It was not, however, a permanent lustre, for it was only remarkable when he was excited by some point of particular interest. It is impossible to imagine an expression of more entire mildness, I may almost call it of benignity and kindliness, than that which played over his features during the whole interview. If, therefore, he was at this time out of health and in low spirits, his power of self-command must have been even more extraordinary than is generally supposed; for his whole deportment, his conversation, and the expression of his face, indicated a frame in perfect health, and a mind at ease." These favourable reports from seemingly impartial witnesses, lent new wings to the tale of Sir Hudson Lowe's oppression; and perhaps the exile of St. Helena continued to fill a larger space in the eye of the world at large, than had ever before fallen to the lot of one removed for ever, to all appearance, from the great theatre of human passions. It was then that Lord Byron thus apostrophised him: "Conqueror and Captive of the Earth art thou! She trembles at thee still—and thy wild name Was ne'er more bruited in men's minds than now That thou art nothing, save the jest of Fame, Who woo'd thee once, thy vassal and became The flatterer of thy fierceness, till thou wert A god unto thyself—nor less the same To the astounded kingdoms all inert, Who deemed thee for a time whate'er thou didst assert." And it was then that an English nobleman of high rank, who throughout manifested especial interest in the fortunes of Napoleon, inscribed his statue (in the gardens of Holland House) with the lines of Homer: Οὐ γαρ πω τεθνηκεν ἐπι χθονι δῐος Ὀδυσσευς, Αλλ' ἐτι πω ζωος κατερυκεται εὐρεϊ ποντῳ Νησῳ ἐν ἀμφιρυτῃ· χαλεποι δε μιν ἀνδρες ἐχουσιν. [74] In ordinary times, the course of Napoleon's life at Longwood appears to have been as follows. He rose early, and, as soon as he was out of bed, either mounted on horseback, or began to dictate some part of the history of his life to Montholon or Gourgaud. He breakfasted à la fourchette , sometimes alone, sometimes with his suite, between 10 and 11 o'clock; read or dictated until between 2 and 3, when he received such visitors as he chose to admit. He then rode out, either on horseback or in his carriage, for a couple of hours, attended generally by all his suite; then read or dictated again until near eight, at which hour dinner was served. He preferred plain food, and ate plentifully. A few glasses of claret, less than an English pint, were taken during dinner; and a cup of coffee concluded the second and last meal of the day, as the first. A single glass of champagne, or any stronger wine, was sufficient to call the blood into his cheek. His constitutional delicacy of stomach, indeed, is said to have been such, that it was at all times actually impossible for him to indulge any of the coarser appetites of our nature to excess. He took, however, great quantities of snuff. A game of chess, a French tragedy read aloud, or conversation, closed the evening. The habits of his life had taught him to need but little sleep, and to take this by starts; and he generally had some one to read to him after he went to bed at night, as is common with those whose pillows are pressed by anxious heads. Napoleon was elaborately careful of his person. He loved the bath, and took it at least once every day. His dress at St. Helena was generally the same which he had worn at the Tuileries as Emperor—viz. the green uniform, faced with red, of the chasseurs of the guard, with the star and cordon of the Legion of Honour. His suite to the last continued to maintain around him, as far as was possible, the style and circumstance of his court. As early as the battle of Waterloo, reports were prevalent in France that Napoleon's health was declining; yet we have already seen that, so late as April, 1817, no symptom of bodily illness could be traced in his external appearance. From this time, however, his attendants continued to urge, with increasing vehemence, the necessity of granting more indulgence, in consequence of the shattered condition of his constitution: and, although such suggestions were, for obvious reasons, listened to at first with considerable suspicion, there can be little doubt now, that in this matter the fame of Longwood spake truth. Dr. Arnott, an English physician, already referred to, who attended on Napoleon's death-bed, has informed us that he himself frequently reverted to the fact, that his father died of scirrhus of the pylorus. "We have high authority" (says this writer) "that this affection of the stomach cannot be produced without a considerable predisposition of the parts to disease. If, then, it should be admitted that a previous disposition of the parts to this disease did exist, might not the depressing passions of the mind act as an exciting cause? It is more than probable that Napoleon Buonaparte's mental sufferings in St. Helena were very poignant. By a man of such unbounded ambition, and who had once aimed at universal dominion, captivity must have been severely felt. I can safely assert, that any one of temperate habits, who is not exposed to much bodily exertion, night air, and atmospherical changes, may have as much immunity from disease in St. Helena as in Europe; and I may, therefore, further assert, that the disease of which Buonaparte died was not the effect of climate."—It is added, that out of all Napoleon's family, which, including English and Chinese servants, amounted to fifty persons, only one individual died during the five years of their stay in St. Helena, and this man, an Italian major-domo, had brought the seeds of consumption with him from Europe. In March, 1817, Lord Holland made a solemn appeal to the British Parliament on the subject of Napoleon's treatment, and was answered by Lord Bathurst—in such a manner that not one could be found to second him. The intelligence of this appears to have exerted a powerful influence on the spirits of the captive. It was about the 25th of September 1818, that his health began to be affected in a manner sufficient to excite alarm in Dr. O'Meara, who informed him, that unless he took regular exercise out of doors (which of late he had seldom done), the progress of the evil would be rapid. Napoleon declared, in answer, that he would never more take exercise while exposed to the challenge of sentinels. The physician stated, that if he persisted, the end would be fatal. "I shall have this consolation at least," answered he, "that my death will be an eternal dishonour to the English nation, who sent me to this climate to die under the hands of...." O'Meara again represented the consequences of his obstinacy. "That which is written, is written," said Napoleon, looking up, "our days are reckoned." Shortly after this, O'Meara—being detected in a suspicious correspondence with one Holmes, Napoleon's pecuniary agent in London—was sent home by Sir Hudson Lowe; and, Napoleon declining to receive any physician of the governor's nomination instead, an Italian, by name Antommarchi, was sent out by his sister Pauline. With this doctor there came also two Italian priests, whose presence Napoleon himself had solicited, and selected by his uncle, Cardinal Fesch. His obstinate refusal to take bodily exercise might have sprung in some measure from internal and indescribable sensations. To all Antommarchi's medical prescriptions, he opposed the like determination. "Doctor," he said (14th October 1820), "no physicking; we are a machine made to live; we are organised for that purpose, and such is our nature; do not counteract the living principle—let it alone—leave it the liberty of self-defence—it will do better than your drugs. Our body is a watch, intended to go for a given time. The watchmaker cannot open it, and must work at random. For once that he relieves or assists it by his crooked instruments, he injured it ten times, and at last destroys it." With the health of Napoleon his mind sank also. Some fishes in a pond in the garden at Longwood had attracted his notice; a deleterious substance happened to mix with the water—they sickened and died. "Everything I love," said Napoleon, "everything that belongs to me —is stricken. Heaven and mankind unite to afflict me." Fits of long silence and profound melancholy were now frequent. "In those days," he once said aloud, in a reverie, "In those days I was Napoleon. Now I am nothing—my strength, my faculties forsake me—I no longer live, I only exist." When Sir Hudson Lowe was made aware of the condition of the captive, he informed the government at home; and by his Majesty's desire, authority was immediately given for removing to St. Helena from the Cape, any medical officer on whom Napoleon's choice might fall. This de spatch did not, however, reach St. Helena, until Napoleon had breathed his last. About the middle of April, 1821, the disease assumed such an appearance, that Dr. Antommarchi became very anxious to have the advice of some English physician, and the patient at length consented to admit the visits of Dr. Arnott, already referred to. But this gentleman also was heard in vain urging the necessity of medical applications. "Quod scriptum scriptum," once more answered Napoleon; "our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined." From the 15th to the 25th of April, Napoleon occupied himself with drawing up his last will—in which he bequeathed his orders, and a specimen of every article in his wardrobe, to his son. On the 18th he gave directions for opening his body after death, expressing a special desire that his stomach should be scrutinised, and its appearances communicated to his son. "The vomitings," he said, "which succeed one another without interruption, seem to show that of all my organs the stomach is the most diseased. I am inclined to believe it is attacked with the disorder which killed my father—a scirrhus in the pylorus—the physicians of Montpelier prophesied it would be hereditary in our family." He also gave directions to the priest Vignali as to the manner in which he wished his body to be laid out in a chambre ardente (a state-room lighted with torches). "I am neither an atheist," said Napoleon, "nor a rationalist; I believe in God, and am of the religion of my father. I was born a Catholic, and will fulfil all the duties of that church, and receive the assistance which she administers." On the 3rd of May it became evident that the scene was near its close. The attendants would fain have called in more medical men; but they durst not, knowing his feelings on this head: "Even had he been speechless," said one of them, "we could not have brooked his eye." The last sacraments of the church were now administered by Vignali. He lingered on thenceforth in a delirious stupor. On the 4th the island was swept by a tremendous storm, which tore up almost all the trees about Longwood by the roots. The 5th was another day of tempests; and about six in the evening, Napoleon—having pronounced the words "tête d'armée," passed for ever from the dreams of battle. On the 6th of May the body being opened by Antom marchi, in the presence of five British medical men, and a number of the military officers of the garrison, as well as Bertrand and Montholon, the cause of death was sufficiently manifest. A cancerous ulcer occupied almost the whole of the stomach. Napoleon desired in his will, that his body should be buried "on the banks of the Seine; among the French people, whom he had loved so well." Sir Hudson Lowe could not, of course, expect the King of France to permit this to take place; and a grave was prepared among some weeping willows beside a fountain, in a small valley called Slane's , very near to Longwood. It was under the shade of these willows that the Exile had had his favourite evening seat; and it was there he had been heard to say, that if he must be interred in St. Helena, he would prefer to lie. The body of the Emperor, clad in his usual uniform, was now exposed to the public view, and visited accordingly by all the population of the island. The soldiers of the garrison passed the couch slowly, in single file; each officer pausing, in his turn, to press respectfully the frozen hand of the dead. On the 8th, his household, the governor, the admiral, and all the civil and military authorities of the place, attended him to the grave—the pall spread over his coffin being the military cloak which he wore at Marengo. The road not being passable for carriages, a party of English grenadiers bore Napoleon to his tomb. The admiral's ship fired minute guns, while Vignali read the service of his church. The coffin then descended amidst a discharge of three volleys from fifteen cannon; and a huge stone was lowered over the remains of one who needs no epitaph. Napoleon confessed more than once at Longwood that he owed his downfall to nothing but the extravagance of his own errors. "It must be owned," said he, "that fortune spoiled me. Ere I was thirty years of age, I found myself invested with great power, and the mover of great events." No one, indeed, can hope to judge him fairly, either in the brilliancy of his day or the troubled darkness of his evening, who does not task imagination to conceive the natural effects, on a temperament and genius so fiery and daring, of that almost instantaneous transition from poverty and obscurity to the summit of fame, fortune, and power. The blaze which dazzled other men's eyes, had fatal influence on his. He began to believe that there was something superhuman in his own faculties, and that he was privileged to deny that any laws were made for him. Obligations by which he expected all besides to be fettered, he considered himself entitled to snap and trample. He became a deity to himself; and expected mankind not merely to submit to, but to admire and reverence, the actions of a demon. Well says the Poet, "O! more or less than man—in high or low, Battling with nations, flying from the field; Now making monarchs' necks thy footstool, now More than thy meanest soldier taught to yield; An empire thou couldst crush, command, rebuild, But govern not thy pettiest passion, nor, However deeply in, men's spirits skilled, Look through thine own—nor curb the lust of war, Nor learn that tempted fate will leave the loftiest star." His heart was naturally cold. His school-companion, who was afterwards his secretary, confesses that, even in the spring of youth, he was very little disposed to form friendships. [75] To say that he was incapable of such feelings, or that he really never had a friend, would be to deny to him any part in the nature and destiny of his species.—No one ever dared to be altogether alone in the world.—But we doubt if any man ever passed through life, sympathising so slightly with mankind; and the most wonderful part of his story is, the intensity of sway which he exerted over the minds of those in whom he so seldom permitted himself to contemplate anything more than the tools of his own ambition. So great a spirit must have had glimpses of whatever adorns and dignifies the character of man. But with him the feelings which bind love played only on the surface—leaving the abyss of selfishness untouched. His one instrument of power was genius; hence his influence was greatest among those who had little access to observe, closely and leisurely, the minutiæ of his personal character and demeanour. The exceptions to this rule were very few. Pride and vanity were strangely mingled in his composi tion. Who does not pity the noble chamberlain that confesses his blood to have run cold when he heard Napoleon—seated at dinner at Dresden among a circle of crowned heads—begin a story with, When I was a lieutenant in the regiment of La Fere ? Who does not pity Napoleon when he is heard speaking of some decorations in the Tuileries, as having taken place "in the time of the king, my uncle?" [76] This last weakness was the main engine of his overthrow. When he condescended to mimic all the established etiquettes of feudal monarchy—when he coined titles and lavished stars, and sought to melt his family into the small circle of hereditary princes—he adopted the surest means which could have been devised for alienating from himself the affections of all the men of the revolution, the army alone excepted, and for re-animating the hopes and exertions of the Bourbonists. It is clear that thenceforth he leaned almost wholly on the soldiery. No civil changes could after this affect his real position. Oaths and vows, charters and concessions, all were alike in vain. When the army was humbled and weakened in 1814, he fell from his throne, without one voice being lifted up in his favour. The army was no sooner strengthened, and re-encouraged, then it recalled him. He re-ascended the giddy height, with the daring step of a hero, and professed his desire to scatter from it nothing but justice and mercy. But no man trusted his words. His army was ruined at Waterloo; and the brief day of the second reign passed, without a twilight, into midnight. We are not yet far enough from Buonaparte to estimate the effects of his career. He recast the art of war; and was conquered in the end by men who had caught wisdom and inspiration from his own campaigns. He gave both permanency and breadth to the influence of the French Revolution. His reign, short as it was, was sufficient to make it impossible that the offensive privileges of caste should ever be revived in France; and, this iniquity being once removed, there could be little doubt that such a nation would gradually acquire possession of a body of institutions worthy of its intelligence. Napoleon was as essentially, and irreclaimably, a despot, as a warrior; but his successor, whether a Bourbon or a Buonaparte, was likely to be a constitutional sovereign. The tyranny of a meaner hand would not have been endured after that precedent. On Europe at large he has left traces of his empire, not less marked or important. He broke down the barriers everywhere of custom and prejudice; and revolutionised the spirit of the Continent. His successes and his double downfall taught absolute princes their weakness and injured nations their strength. Such hurricanes of passion as the French Revolution—such sweeping scourges of mankind as Napoleon Buonaparte, are not permitted but as the avengers of great evils, and the harbingers of great good. Of the influence of both, as regards the continent, it may be safely said—that even now we have seen only "the beginning of the end." The reigning sovereigns of Europe are, with rare exceptions, benevolent and humane men; and their subjects, no less than they, ought to remember the lesson of all history—that violent and sudden changes, in the structure of social and political order, have never yet occurred, without inflicting utter misery upon at least one generation. It was England that fought the great battle throughout on the same principle, without flinching; and, but for her perseverance, all the rest would have struggled in vain. It is to be hoped that the British nation will continue to see, and to reverence, in the contest and in its result, the immeasurable advantages which the sober strength of a free but fixed constitution possesses over the mad energies of anarchy on the one hand, and, on the other, over all that despotic selfishness can effect, even under the guidance of the most consummate genius. INDEX Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, in Egypt, 164 Aberdeen, Earl of, 399 Aboukir, battle of, 95 ; Turks defeated at, 107 Acre, siege of, 101 , 102 Alexander, Emperor of Russia, resents the murder of the Duke d'Enghien, 210 ; stimulates King of Prussia against Napoleon, 211 ; meets Napoleon at Tilsit, 254 Alexandria captured by French, 89 ; battle of, 164 Allies approach Paris, 420 ; their proclamation, 427 ; enter Paris, 429 ; refuse to treat with Napoleon, 430 ; resolved to restore Louis XVIII., 430 Almeida, siege of, 327 Aloys Reding, 178 Alps, passage of the, 143-145 Alvinzi, Marshal, opposes Napoleon, 50 , et seq. Amiens, peace of, 166 , 168 ; rupture of treaty of, 187 Ancona occupied by French, 61 Andalusia, Dupont marches into, 279 Andreossi, General, 30 Antommarchi, Dr., 501 Arcola, Napoleon's narrow escape at, 54 ; three battles at, 52-54 Arnott, Dr., 493 , 500 Asperne, battle of, 300 , 301 Augereau, General, 24 , 44 , 61 ; made Marshal, 207 Austerlitz, battle of, 223 Austria, Venice handed over to, 75 ; declares war against France, 296 , 382 Badajos taken by Lord Wellington, 329 Bagrathion, General, 344 ; death of, 347 Baird, General, 165 Barclay de Tolly, 337 Barras, 20 , 21 Bassano, battle of, 48 Bavaria, Elector of, created King, 225 Bautzen, battle of, 379 Baylen, battle of, 279 Beauharnois, Eugene, first meeting with Napoleon, 22 : appointed Viceroy of Italy, 209 ; marries daughter of King of Bavaria, 225 Beauharnois, Hortense, marries Louis Buonaparte, 310 ; her intrigues, 314 Beauharnois, Josephine, first meeting with Napoleon, 22 ; marries Napoleon, 23 ; her influence, 23 , 310 ; her court at Montebello, 74 ; her extravagance, 134 ; divorced, 309 ; her death, 437 Beaulieu, 26 , 27 ; superseded by Wurmser, 42 Bennigsen, General, 244-252 Beresina, passage of the, 365 Berlin decrees, 240 Bernadotte, his conduct on 18th Brumaire, 119 ; made Marshal, 207 ; created Prince of Corvo, 226 ; elected Crown Prince of Sweden, 317 ; Napoleon's conduct towards, 332 ; lands in Germany, 375 Berri, Duke of, 458 Berthier made Marshal, 207 ; created Prince of Neufchatel, 226 Bertrand, General, 438 Bessieres, made Marshal, 207 ; death of, 377 Blucher, General, opposes Napoleon, 374 , et seq. ; at Ligny and Waterloo, 466 , et seq. Borodino, battle of, 347 Boulogne, flotilla of, 166 , 191 Bourbons, restoration of, 435 Bourienne, De, 4 , 7 , 67 , 105 Braganzas, flight of the, 267 Brienne, battle of, 407 Brueyes, Admiral, 94 , 95 Brumaire, revolution of 18th, 119 Buonaparte, Charles, 1 Buonaparte, Eliza, made Princess of Lucca. 226 Buonaparte, Jerome, made King of Westphalia, 255 Buonaparte, Joseph, made King of Naples, 225 ; made King of Spain, 274 ; leaves Madrid, 280 ; civil commander of Paris, 406 ; flight from Paris, 423 Buonaparte, Louis, made King of Holland, 226 ; deposed by Napoleon and retires to Gratz, 314 Buonaparte, Lucien, president of Council of Five Hundred, 115 ; conduct on 19th Brumaire, 121 ; his pamphlet, 158 ; ambassador to Spain, 159 ; quits France for England, 323 Buonaparte, Napoleon, birth and parentage, 1 ; education at Brienne, 3 , 4 ; at Paris, 5 ; appointed second lieutenant of artillery, 6 ; political views, 6 ; made captain of artillery, 6 ; De Bourienne's description of, 7 ; first military service, 8 ; commands artillery at Toulon, 9 ; wounded at Toulon, 12 ; surveys Mediterranean coast fortifications, 14 ; chief of battalion in army of Italy, 15 ; is superseded, 15 ; in love with Mdlle. Clery, 16 ; at Paris, 16 ; refuses to go to La Vendée, 16 ; name erased from list of officers, 16 ; asks to be sent to Turkey, 16 ; commands artillery brigade, 17 ; commands army of interior, 21 ; meets Josephine, 22 ; marries Josephine, 23 ; commands army of Italy, 24 ; at Monte Notte, 27 ; at Millesimo, 27 ; at Mondovi, 28 ; dictates peace to Sardinia, 28 ; crosses the Po, 30 ; at the bridge of Lodi, 31 ; enters Milan, 33 ; seizes works of art, 34 ; suspected by the Directory, 35 ; crosses the Mincio, 36 ; escapes capture at Valleggio, 37 ; besieges Mantua, 38 ; insults Venice, 39 ; peace with Sicily, 39 ; grants respite to Pope, 40 ; seizes Leghorn and enters Florence, 40 ; policy in Italy, 41 ; at battle of Lonato and narrow escape, 44 , 45 ; defeats Wurmser, 45 ; marches on Mantua, 46 ; at Roveredo, 47 ; at Primolano and Bassano, 48 ; escapes capture at Arcola, 49 ; sends expedition to Corsica, 50 ; at Arcola, 52 ; life saved by Muiron, 54 ; forms new Italian republics, 55 ; at battle of Rivoli, 57 ; grants terms to Mantua, 60 ; wars against the Pope, 61 ; treaty of Tollentino, 63 ; at battle of Tagliamento, 65 ; treaty of Leoben, 67 ; conquers Venice, 69 ; offered bribes, 70 ; discovers Pichegru's intrigues, 70 ; at Montebello, 74 ; treaty of Campo-Formio, 75 ; at congress at Rastadt, 78 ; returns to Paris, 79 ; conduct in Paris, 79 , 80 ; appointed to command army for invasion of England, 83 ; opinion of projected invasion, 84 ; suggests seizure of Malta and invasion of Egypt, 85 ; forms troop of "Savans," 86 ; at Toulon, 86 ; embarks for Egypt, 87 ; captures Malta, 88 ; escapes Nelson and takes Alexandria, 89 ; conduct in Egypt, 89-92 ; at the Pyramids, 93 ; enters Cairo, 94 ; administration in Egypt, 96 ; remarks on battle of Aboukir, 96 ; quells insurrection at Cairo, 98 ; explores isthmus of Suez, 99 ; visits Mount Sinai and explores Red Sea, 99 ; marches for Syria, 99 ; captures El-Arish, Gazah and Jaffa, 100 ; orders massacre of prisoners, 100 ; besieges Acre, 101 ; rescues Junot at Nazareth and Kleber at Mount Tabor, 102 ; retreats to Jaffa, 104 ; massacres Turkish prisoners, 104 ; arrives at Alexandria and defeats Turks at Aboukir, 107 ; embarks for France, 109 ; instructions to Kleber, 109 , 110 ; occupations on voyage, 113 ; lands at Frejus, 114 ; reception by Directory in Paris, 114 ; conduct on 18th Brumaire, 118 ; commands troops in Paris, 118 ; enters Council of Five Hundred, 121 ; dissolves Council and establishes provisional consulate, 123 ; at the Luxembourg, 124 ; re-opens churches, 126 ; pacifies Chouans, 127 ; made Chief Consul, 129 ; occupies the Tuileries, 131 ; writes to King of England, 136 ; at Dijon, 142 ; crosses the Alps, 143 ; takes St. Bard, 146 ; enters Milan, 149 ; at Marengo, 151 ; establishes Cisalpine Republic, 154 ; arrives in Paris, 155 ; attempted assassination, 157 ; conduct towards the Pope, 162 ; prepares to invade England, 165 ; peace with England, 166 ; his court, 169 ; allows emigrants to return, 169 ; re-establishes Catholic religion, 170 ; concordat with Pope, 171 ; institutes Legion of Honour, 175 ; First Consul for life, 176 ; Grand Mediator of Helvetic Republic, 178 ; sends expedition to St. Domingo, 178 ; banishes negroes, 180 ; negotiates with Louis XVIII., 183 ; arrests English subjects, 187 ; seizes Hanover and Naples, 189 ; prepares to invade England, 190 ; conspiracy against him, 194 ; condemns the Duke d'Enghien, 198 ; declared Emperor, 206 ; at Boulogne and Aix-la-Chapelle, 207 ; crowned in Notre Dame, and at Milan, 208 ; heads army in Germany, 212 ; enters Vienna, 215 ; at Austerlitz, 221 ; offers Hanover to Prussia, 224 ; confers crowns on his relatives, 226 ; at Jena, 234 ; exactions in Prussia, 238 ; robs monument of Frederick the Great, 239 ; issues decrees of Berlin, 240 ; takes Warsaw, 244 ; at battle of Preuss-Eylau, 247 ; meets Russian Emperor at Tilsit, 254 ; his administration in France, 259-264 ; relations with Spain, 265 , et seq. ; at Erfurt, 288 ; at Vittoria, 289 ; at Samosierra, 290 ; takes Madrid and abolishes Inquisition, 292 ; leaves Spain, 295 ; in Germany, 296 ; at battle of Eckmuhl, 297 ; wounded at Ratisbonne, 298 ; takes Vienna, 298 ; at Asperne and Essling, 301 ; at Wagram, 302 ; attempted assassination, 305 ; decree against the Pope, 306 ; concludes peace with Austria, 307 ; divorces Josephine, 311 ; marries Maria Louisa, 312 ; deposes his brother Louis, 314 ; annexes Holland, 315 ; birth of his son, 320 ; prepares for war with Russia, 324 ; at Dresden, 336 ; at Dantzick, 337 ; address to his army, 337 ; passes the Niemen, 340 ; at Wilna, 341 ; marches for Moscow, 344 ; at battle of Borodino, 346 ; enters Moscow, 348 ; at the Kremlin, 349 ; retreats from Moscow, 355 ; at Verreia, 357 ; at Smolensko, 358 ; sufferings of his army, 358 ; passes the Beresina, 365 ; quits his army, 367 ; arrives in Paris, 368 ; his military preparations, 372 ; heads his army in Saxony, 376 ; at battle of Lutzen, 377 ; enters Dresden, 377 ; at Bautzen, 379 ; agrees to an armistice, 380 ; interview with Metternich, 381 ; at battle of Dresden, 387 ; at battle of Leipsig, 390 ; at battle of Hanau, 394 ; returns to Paris, 394 ; his obstinacy, 398 ; dissolves Legislative Senate, 401 ; releases the Pope and Ferdinand VII., 401 ; announces the invasion of France, 404 ; leaves Paris, 406 ; life saved at battle of Brienne, 407 ; at battle of La Rothiere, 407 ; his expedition to the Marne, 409 ; at Nangis, 410 ; dismisses Victor, 411 ; at battle of Montereau, 411 ; refuses to sign peace preliminaries, 412 ; at Troyes, 413 ; repulsed at Soissons, 414 ; at battles of Craonne and Laon, 414 ; captures Rheims, 415 ; his remarkable energy, 416 ; distrusted at Paris, 419 ; at St. Dizier, 419 ; Macdonald's advice to him, 424 ; at Fontainebleau, 425 ; throne declared empty, 431 ; he abdicates, 432 ; abdication accepted, 434 ; paroxysm of illness, 435 ; bids his officers and guards farewell, 436 ; sails from Frejus for Elba, 439 ; conduct and occupations at Elba, 440 , et seq. ; intrigues of his friends, 445 ; escapes from Elba and lands at Cannes, 447 ; reaches Gap, 448 ; proclamation to the army and nation, 448 , 449 ; at Grenoble and Lyons, 450 ; resumes functions of civil government, 452 ; enters Paris, 454 ; prepares for war, 457 ; schemes to regain his wife and son, 459 ; publishes "Additional Act." 463 ; at the Champ de Mai, 464 ; heads his army on Belgian frontier, 466 ; passes the Sambre at Charleroi, 468 ; defeats Blucher at Ligny, 470 ; at the battle of Waterloo, 473-476 ; is defeated and flees to Charleroi, 476 ; reaches Paris, 477 ; his second abdication, 479 ; is sent to Malmaison, 481 ; at Rochefort, 482 ; negotiates with Captain Maitland, 483 ; letter to the Prince Regent of England, 484 ; embarks in the Bellerophon , 485 ; interview with Lord Keith at Torbay, 485 ; ordered to St. Helena, 485 ; his protest, 486 ; sails on Northumberland for St. Helena, 490 ; arrival there, 491 ; resides at The Briars, 491 ; removes to Longwood, 491 ; complaints against English Government, 492 ; and against Sir Hudson Lowe, 495 ; manner of life at Longwood, 499 ; health failing, 500 ; refuses to take exercise, 501 ; draws up his will, 502 ; his death, 502 ; his burial, 503 Buonaparte, Pauline, marries Prince Borghese, 226 ; her intrigues at Elba, 445 Buonapartes, the, banished from Corsica, 8 Burrard, General Sir H., 283 Busaco, battle of, 319 Byron, Lord, quoted, 143 , 497 , 498 , 504 Cairo, surrender of, 93 ; English occupy, 165 Calder, Sir Robert, 216 Cambaceres, 126 Campbell, Sir Neil, 439 , 445 Campo-Formio, treaty of, 75 Canning, Mr., quoted, 218 Carnot, 20 ; made minister of war, 126 ; Napoleon's opinion of, 133 ; in opposition to Napoleon, 104 , 206 ; governor of Antwerp, 404 ; minister of war, 457 ; assists at the Champ de Mai, 463 Cartaux, 10 Castaños, General, 279 Castiglione, battle of, 45 Castlereagh, Lord, 408 Caulaincourt, 207 , 368 , 408 , 426 , 431 Ceracchi plans assassination of Napoleon, 157 Champ de Mai, 464 Charles, Archduke of Austria, 65 Charles IV. of Spain abdicates, 271 Chateaubriand, his tract, 427 Cherasco, armistice of, 28 Chouans, submission of, 127 Cintra, convention of, 283 Cisalpine Republic, 175 Ciudad Rodrigo, blockade of, 327 ; capture of, 329 Clery, Mademoiselle, 16 Clichy, Royalist Club of, 72 Coalition against France, 210 ; against English commerce, 259 Cobentzel at Campo-Formio, 75 , 76 Code Napoleon projected, 173 ; Napoleon's dictum of the, 261 Col di Tende, 15 Collingwood, Admiral, at Trafalgar, 219 Concordat, the, 170 ; rejected by bishops, 171 Confederation of the Rhine, 226 Congress at Rastadt, 78 ; at Prague, 380 Conscription in France, 262 Constitution of the year VIII., 128 , 129 "Continental System," the, 240 Convention of Cintra, 283 Copenhagen, battle of, 163 ; British expedition to, 258 Corsica, 1 , 7 , 8 , 50 Coruña, battle of, 294 Cossacks attack French, 356 Craonne, battle of, 414 Culm, battle of, 387 Dalrymple, Sir Hew, 283 D'Angouleme, Duke, capitulates, 458 D'Angouleme, Duchess, heroic conduct of, 458 Danican, General, 19 Dantzick taken by French, 249 D'Argenteau, 26 , 27 D'Artois, Count, 156 Davidowich, at Roveredo, 46 Davoust made Marshal, 207 ; his conduct at Hamburg, 377 D'Enghien, Duke, arrested, 196 ; murdered, 199 ; reflections thereon, 201 Dennewitz, battle of, 388 D'Entraigues, Count, 70 De Pradt, Abbé, 368 , 430 Desgenettes, 105 Dessaix, General, Napoleon's opinion of, 150 ; killed at Marengo, 153 Detention of English travellers in France, 187 Directory, the, ask Napoleon's aid, 72 ; their jealousy of him, 82 ; oppose grant of estate to him, 218 Doppet, cowardice of, at Toulon, 12 Dresden, battle of, 387 Dubois, death of, 47 Dufour, Colonel, 146 Dugommier, General, 13 Dumanoir, Commodore, 218 Dupont marches into Andalusia, 279 ; surrenders at Baylen, 280 Duroc, death of, at Bautzen, 379 Eckmuhl, battle of, 297 Education under Napoleon, 261 Egypt, French expedition to, 86 ; Napoleon's administration in, 96 ; English expedition to, 164 ; conquered from France, 165 El Arish taken by French, 100 Elba, Napoleon at, 439 , et seq. Elgin, Lord, sagacity of, 205 Emigrants allowed to return to France, 169 England, Napoleon's letter to King of, 136 ; treaty of peace with, 166 ; rupture of treaty, 187 Erfurt, conferences at, 288 , 289 Essling, battle of, 301 Etruria, Napoleon's treatment of Queen of, 326 Fatalism, Napoleon's tendency to, 23 Fayette, La, his recall, 126 Ferdinand VII., abdication of, 271 ; prisoner at Valençay, 326 ; released, and re-enters Spain, 401 , 402 Ferrara, Archbishop of, 46 Fersen, Count, conduct of Napoleon towards, 78 Fesch, Cardinal, remonstrates with Napoleon, 336 Flotilla of Boulogne, 165 , 191 Fombio, battle of, 31 Fontainebleau, treaty of, 266 ; Napoleon abdicates at, 435 Fouché, Napoleon's character of, 133 ; Josephine demands his dismissal, 311 ; in disgrace, 322 ; made governor of Rome, 322 ; his memorial against the war with Russia, 335 ; joins Napoleon on his return from Elba, 455 ; corresponds with Louis XVIII. at Ghent, 468 ; advises Napoleon to escape to America, 481 Fox, Mr., and Napoleon, 168 , 229 Frankfort, declaration of Allies at, 398 Francis, Emperor of Germany, his interview with Napoleon, 224 Friedland, battle of, 251 Fructidor, revolution of 18th, 73 Fuentes d'Onor, battle of, 327 Gazah, capture of, 100 Genoa, revolution of, 72 ; siege of, 147 Georges Cadoudal, conspiracy of, 194 ; trial and condemnation of, 203 Godoy, Manuel, his intrigues, 266 ; arrested, 269 Gourgaud, General, 494 Grenville, Lord, 137 Grossbeeren, battle of, 388 Guiche, Duchess of, 156 Hall, Captain Basil, 497 Hamburg, Davoust's cruelties at, 377 Hanau, battle of, 394 Hanover seized by French, 189 Haugwitz, Count, 222 , 224 Helvetic Republic, 177 Hesse Cassel, Landgrave of, 244 Hofer and his followers, massacre of, 299 , 300 Hohenlinden, battle of, 160 Holland, annexed to France, 315 ; revolution of, 396 Hospitallers of St. Bernard, Napoleon's visit to, 144 Hullin, General, 197 , 198 Hundred Days, the, 436 , et seq. Hutchinson, General, succeeds Sir Ralph Abercrombie, 164 Inquisition abolished by Napoleon, 292 Invasion of England, scheme for, 190 Jaffa, capture of, 100 ; garrison massacred, 100 ; Turkish prisoners massacred at, 104 Jena, battle of, 235 Joubert, 57 Jourdan, Marshal, enters Germany, 42 ; in Spain, 382 Junot, coolness of, at siege of Toulon, 14 ; marches on Portugal, 267 Kellerman made Marshal, 207 Kleber, General, rescued by Napoleon, 102 ; left in command of army in Egypt, 109 ; his assassination, 164 Kosciusko, 243 Kutusoff, General, commands Russian army, 345 , et seq. Labedoyere, Colonel, 449 , 480 Landshut, battle of, 297 Lannes at Placenza, 30 ; wounded at Acre, 103 ; made Marshal, 207 ; killed at Asperne, 302 Laon, battle of, 415 La Rothiere, battle of, 407 Law of Hostages repealed, 125 Le Clerc, 122 , 123 , 179 Lefebre Desnouettes, 278 , 280 , 281 Leghorn seized by Napoleon, 40 Legion of Honour instituted, 175 Leipsig, battle of, 390-392 Leoben, treaty of, 67 Licence System, 325 Lodi, passage of bridge of, 32 Lonato, battle of, 44 Loretto, French enter, 61 : image of Virgin at, 61 ; Holy House at, 62 Louvre, Gallery of the, 34 Louis XVIII., his letter to Napoleon, 155 ; Napoleon's proposition to, 182 ; his restoration, 441 ; quits Paris and retires to Ghent, 454 Lowe, Sir Hudson, 494-497 Luneville, treaty of, 160 Lutzen, battle of, 377 Macdonald, General, 112 , 384 , 454 Mack, General, surrender of, at Ulm, 213 , 214 Madrid occupied by Murat, 269 ; massacre of, 272 ; surrender of, 292 Mahomet, Napoleon's admiration of, 91 Maitland, Captain, 483 , 490 Mallet, conspiracy of, 371 Malo-Yaraslovetz, battle of, 355 , 356 Malta, Napoleon suggests seizure of, 85 ; surrenders to French, 88 ; surrenders to English, 155 Mamelukes, description of, 90 Mantua, siege of, 38 ; surrender of, 60 Marengo, battle of, 151 Maria Louisa, Archduchess of Austria, marries Napoleon, 312 ; quits Paris and retires to Blois, 422 Marmont crosses the Rhine, 212 Massena, General, in Italy, 139 ; his retreat from Portugal, 327 Mehrfeldt, General, 391 Menou, General, 19 , 165 Metternich, Prince, his interview with Napoleon, 381 Milan occupied by French, 33 ; decrees against English commerce, 259 Millesimo, battle of, 27 Mincio, passage of the, 36 Miollis, General, occupies Rome, 306 Modena, Duke of, offers bribe to Napoleon, 70 Moncey made Marshal, 207 Mondovi, battle of, 28 Montebello, battle of, 149 Monte Notte, battle of, 27 Montmartre, battle of, 423 Moore, Sir John, commands army in Portugal, 286 ; advances into Spain, 293 ; retreat and death at Coruña, 294 Moreau, his retreat through the Black Forest, 42 ; Napoleon's suspicions of, 193 ; his arrest, 195 ; exiled, 203 ; returns and joins allies, 385 ; his death, 386 Morla, Governor of Madrid, 292 Mortier seizes Hanover, 189 ; made Marshal, 207 Moscow, French enter, 348 ; burning of, 349 ; French retreat from, 355 Muiron, at Toulon, 12 ; saves Napoleon's life, 54 Murat, his conduct on Day of the Sections, 20 ; marries Caroline Buonaparte, 134 ; made Marshal, 207 ; occupies Madrid, 269 ; created King of Naples, 274 ; his rash expedition, 460 ; takes refuge in France, is seized and executed, 460 Napier, Colonel, quoted, 272 , 274 , 276 Naples, Queen of, her journey to Russia, 161 ; seized by French, 189 "Napoleon's Grotto," 2 National Convention, the, 17 Naumburg, capture of, 233 Negroes banished from France, 180 Nelson, Lord, at Alexandria, 74 ; at Aboukir, 95 ; at Copenhagen, 163 ; at Trafalgar, 217 Ney, Marshal, at Clagenfurt, 214 ; at battle of Borodino, 347 ; retreats from Smolensko, 360 ; "the bravest of the brave," 364 ; his treason, 453 ; at Waterloo, 476 ; at Paris, 480 Niemen, passage of the, 341 Nile, French army march up, 91 Northern confederacy against England, 162 Ocaña, battle of, 303 O'Meara, Dr., 500 Ossian, Napoleon's favourite poet, 5 Palafox, General, 280 Palm, the bookseller, murder of, 231 Paoli, General, 7 Passage of the Po, 31 ; of the Mincio, 36 Pavia, insurrection of, 36 Paul, Emperor of Russia, admires Napoleon, 161 ; assassinated, 163 Peltier, trial of, 182 Perignon made Marshal, 207 "Philadelphes," Society of, 371 Pichegru, Napoleon's monitor, 4 ; listens to the Bourbons' proposals, 70 ; arrested and exiled, 73 ; returns, 195 ; arrested in Paris, 195 ; found dead in prison, 202 Piedmont conquered, 28 Pitt, Mr., death of, 229 Po, passage of the, 31 Poles, Napoleon's conduct towards, 338 Polytechnic School, 173 Pope, the, buys respite of Napoleon, 40 ; negotiates with Napoleon, and concludes treaty at Tollentino, 62 ; restored by England, 161 ; arrested by Miollis, 306 ; sent to Fontainebleau, 307 ; released, 401 Popham, Admiral Sir Home, court-martialled, 253 Prague, congress at, 380 ; congress dissolved, 382 Presburg, treaty of, 224 Preuss-Eylau, battle of, 247 Primolano, battle of, 48 "Prince of the Peace," 266 Prussia, makes peace with Napoleon, 224 ; accepts Hanover from him, 225 ; declares war against France, 232 , 373 ; Queen of, Napoleon's treatment of, 255 Pultusk, battle of, 245 Pyramids, battle of the, 93 Quasdonowich, 43 , 44 , 48 Quatre-bras, battle of, 468 Raab, battle of, 299 Rastadt, battle of, 78 ; murder of French commissioners at, 111 Ratisbonne, taken by French, 297 Red Sea explored by Napoleon, 99 Reign of Terror, the, 9 Revolution of the 18th Fructidor, 73 Rhine, confederation of the, 226 Riosecco, battle of, 278 Rivoli, battle of, 57 Robespierre, fall of, 17 Rome seized by Miollis, 306 ; King of, 320 Rostophchin burns Moscow, 349 Roveredo, battle of, 47 Rumbold, Sir George, 205 Russia, French relations with, 323 ; Napoleon's invasion of, 340 "Sacred Band," the, 19 St. Bard, capture of, 146 St. Bernard, passage of the Great, 143-145 St. Domingo, French expedition to, 178 St. George, battle of, 59 St. Helena, Napoleon at, 491 , et seq. Salamanca, battle of, 330 Samosierra, passage of the, 290 Saorgio, surrender of, 15 "Savans" accompany army in Egypt, 86 , 92 , 94 Savary quoted, 99 ; at trial of Duke d'Enghien, 198 Schill, Colonel, 299 Schoenbrunn, treaty of, 307 Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 41 , 191 , 494 Sebastiani, his memorial, 183 Sections, Day of the, 21 Serrurier made Marshal, 207 Sheridan, Mr., quoted, 185 Sieyes, Abbé, 115-119 , 127 , 130 , 463 Smith, Sir Sydney, at Acre, 101 ; Napoleon's hatred of, 103 Smolensko, battle of, 359 Soult, Marshal, in Spain, 290 Stabbs, his attempt to assassinate Napoleon, 305 Staël, Madame de, 80 , 169 Suchet, Marshal, defeats Blake, 303 ; defeats O'Donnell, 318 Suez, Napoleon explores isthmus of, 99 "Sun of Austerlitz," 223 "Suns of Napoleon," 87 Sweden, revolution in, 316 Swiss Cantons, Napoleon's letter to, 178 Tacitus, Napoleon's chosen author, 5 Tactics, Napoleon's military, 25 Tagliamento, battle of, 65 Talaveyra, battle of, 303 Talleyrand, his character, 133 ; created Prince of Benevento, 227 ; corresponds with the Bourbons, 421 ; his billet to Alexander of Russia, 421 Talma, early associate of Napoleon, 16 Taxation under Napoleon, 263 Tilsit, treaty of, 255 Tollentino, treaty of, 62 Torres Vedras, Wellington at, 319 Toulon, siege of, 9-14 Toussaint l'Ouverture, 179 Trafalgar, battle of, 217-219 Tugend-bund, the, 288 Tyrol, peasants revolt in, 299 Ulm, surrender of, by Mack, 213 , 214 Usher, Captain, 439 Vandamme, surrender of, 387 Vendemaire, the 13th, 20 Venice threatened by Napoleon, 38 ; neutrality of, 64 ; conquered by Napoleon, 69 ; handed over to Austria, 75 Victor, Marshal, 149 , 303 Vienna taken by French, 313 , 298 ; congress at, 456 Villeneuve, Admiral, 217 Vimiero, battle of, 283 Vincovo, battle of, 354 Vittoria, battle of, 382 Volney, 171 Wagram, battle of, 303 Wahlstadt, battle of, 388 Walcheren, expedition to, 304 Warsaw taken by French, 244 ; Grand Duchy of, 255 Waterloo, battle of, 472-477 Wellesley, Sir Arthur, commands British army in the Peninsula, 281 ; lands in Mondego Bay, 282 ; defeats French at Roriça, 283 ; defeats Junot at Vimiero, 283 ; lands at Lisbon, 303 ; defeats Soult, 303 ; at Talaveyra, 303 ; created Lord Wellington, 304 ; retreats to lines of Torres Vedras, 319 ; at Fuentes d'Onor, 327 ; captures Ciudad Rodrigo, 329 ; takes Badajos, 329 ; at Salamanca, 330 ; at Vittoria, 382 ; interview with Blucher, 470 ; at battle of Waterloo, 472-477 Westphalia, new kingdom of, 255 Whitelocke, General, repulsed at Buenos Ayres, 253 , 254 Whitworth, Lord, confers with Napoleon, 185 Wilna, Napoleon at, 341 Wilson, Sir Robert, 105 , 184 Wirtemberg, Elector of, made king, 225 Witzingerode taken prisoner, 357 ; interview with Napoleon, 357 Wordsworth, Mr., quoted, 177 , 179 , 180 , 191 Wright, Captain, 195 , 203 (note) Wurmser, General, 42 , et seq. Yarmouth, Lord, 230 Zaragossa, siege of, 281 Znaim, armistice of, 302

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