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LIFE OF NAPOLEON
Pocket Edition
VOL. II.
LIFE OF
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
By SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOL. 2.
EDINBURGH; A. & C. BLACK.
1876
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Chap. I.—Corsica—Family of Buonaparte—Napoleon born 15th August,1769—His early Habits—Sent to the Royal Military School at Brienne—Hisgreat Progress in Mathematical Science—Deficiency in ClassicalLiterature—Anecdotes—Removed to the General School of Paris—Whenin his Seventeenth Year, appointed Second Lieutenant of Artillery—Hisearly Politics—Promoted to a Captaincy—Pascal Paoli—Napoleonsides with the French Government against Paoli—And isBanished from Corsica—Visits Marseilles, and Publishes the Souper deBeaucaire, 1
Chap. II.—Siege of Toulon—Recapitulation—Buonaparte appointed tothe Command of the Artillery at Toulon—Finds every thing in Disorder—HisPlan for obtaining the Surrender of the Place Adopted—Anecdotesduring the Siege—Allied Troops resolve to evacuate Toulon—DreadfulParticulars of the Evacuation—England Censured on thisoccasion—Lord Lynedoch—Fame of Buonaparte increases, and he isappointed Chief of Battalion in the Army of Italy—Joins Headquartersat Nice—On the Fall of Robespierre, Buonaparte superseded in Command—Arrivesin Paris in May, 1795, to solicit Employment—He isunsuccessful—Retrospect of the Proceedings of the National Assembly—Difficultiesin forming a New Constitution—Appointment of the Directory—Ofthe Two Councils of Elders and of Five Hundred—Nation atLarge, and Paris in Particular, Disgusted with their Pretensions—Parisassembles in Sections—General Danican appointed their Commander-in-Chief—Menouappointed by the Directory to Disarm the NationalGuards—But Suspended for Incapacity—Buonaparte appointed in hisRoom—The Day of the Sections—Conflict betwixt the Troops of theConvention under Buonaparte, and those of the Sections of Paris underDanican—The latter Defeated with much Slaughter—Buonaparte appointedSecond in Command of the Army of the Interior—Then General-in-Chief—MarriesMadame Beauharnais—Her Character—Buonaparteimmediately afterwards joins the Army of Italy, 14
Chap. III.—The Alps—Feelings and Views of Buonaparte on being appointedto the Command of the Army of Italy—General Account ofhis new Principles of Warfare—Mountainous Countries peculiarly...