Napoleon: A Biography

some of Bonaparte's generals, notably Dommartin, worried that victory at Acre would lead Napoleon to march on Persia and India, ...

shape of a four-day crossing of the Sinai desert. This had been an ordeal even during winter on the outward march, but now, swel ...

psychological warfare, allowed French ships to deliver newspapers with news of the Directory's disastrous setbacks in I798-99, t ...

Murad, however, got no farther than the Pyramids before he was chased ignominiously back into the desert by Murat. Napoleon arri ...

It was a notable French victory, one of the few occasions when Napoleon actually carried out his textbook destruction of an enem ...

assembled company that he wanted to stay with them but now had no choice. It was fortunate for him that on 26 May the Directors ...

to Europe and rub it in his face.' Technically, Napoleon was within his rights, since the letter from the Directory authorized h ...

off the ship by Duroc, who forbade her access to Napoleon but pensioned her off with the gift of a country mansion. What did Nap ...

undertaking I would have combined the experience of two worlds, exploiting for my own benefit the theatre of all history, attack ...

CHAPTER TEN La Muiron set sail on a moonless night on 23 August 1799 with one other frigate as escort. At first they hugged the ...

Valence, Lyons, Chalon and Nevers, arriving in Paris on the morning of 16 October. He was delighted with the tumultuous receptio ...

Charles being transferred from Switzerland to Holland and Suvorov moving from Italy to Switzerland. This caused a delay in campa ...

Had he known the full extent of her treachery, Napoleon would have been even more angry. She told Barras that she found his lett ...

During this honeymoon period Josephine put him in the picture about his old love Desiree Clary. Napoleon had earmarked her as th ...

for the promotion of Jean Bernadotte. He has attracted widespread odium, and rightly so. Frederic Masson described him as 'the m ...

Nevertheless, in his bid for supreme power in October 1799 Napoleon faced a situation of frightening complexity. The only certai ...

said to have sent a letter to the Council of soo,ooo; when reproved for adding three more noughts than necessary, the Gascon rep ...

'Constitutional Society' - a Jacobin club which had hitherto been a bugbear for the Directory. The third party in the ring was t ...

with the insolent young cub. He brought up the subject of Lucien's illegal under-age recruitment to the Council of 500. To save ...

had to stay in Paris for reasons of his health. The sparring continued, until at a dinner on 30 October Barras publicly insulted ...