Napoleon: A Biography

way to rid himself of the troublesome Directors. On the very day he wrote to Brueys, and just before the courier from the Direct ...

with Brueys that all shipping of whatever kind should be forbidden to leave Marseilles and Toulon for five days after the Armada ...

Napoleon's for, with a foot in both camps, he could not see any reasons for disharmony and was impatient with complaints from ei ...

the same order of St John that had held Malta against the cream of the Ottoman army for a whole year in the sixteenth century. F ...

full disembarkation (this was completed only on 3 July) but pressed on to the outskirts of Alexandria. On 2 July Menou seized th ...

obstacle to those who manipulate the levers of power. I could find no other reason for this expedition.' Faced with outright mut ...

robes, so that wounded horsemen writhed on the ground in agony or burnt to death just yards away from the intact squares. The re ...

of St John on Malta. Against the day when Egypt would be completely conquered he announced that the country would be run in the ...

their own advantage or disobeyed them when it suited their book; far less often do we hear of a subordinate disregarding Napoleo ...

interpretation of Napoleon himself, so that we are supposed to see the incident as a turning point in his life. According to thi ...

The main task, that of hunting down Murad Bey, was given to the brilliant Desaix, who had already settled in well in Egypt and g ...

On the political front Napoleon tried to tighten his hold on Egypt by having his regime recognized as legitimate by the keepers ...

some 2,000 Arabs. Among the French casualties were General Dupuy and Napoleon's favourite aide-de-camp Captain Sulkowski. Despit ...

addition, deflowering a virgin would have brought him uncomfortable reminders of Desiree at a time when he had already admitted, ...

instance of gross insensitivity on sexual matters. It seems quite clear that Napoleon never forgot the two linked incidents, for ...

Alexandria, than it was captured by the Royal Navy vessel Lion (29 December). The British, who had an excellent spy network in C ...

melancholy twist of the ronde de /'amour, Desiree in 1798 took as her husband none other than Napoleon's bitterest enemy Jean Be ...

could plead compelling necessity. He and his supporters have mounted several lines of defence, some specious, some with a certai ...

end of March he was able to resume the march on Acre, even though he left 300 plague cases behind. The Fates were not smiling on ...

aimed volleys from his advancing squares panicked the Turks, who had seen what just 2,ooo Frenchmen could do and were terrified ...