Napoleon: A Biography

other corps. Napoleon felt confident that he could now cut Bennigsen off from his base at Konigsberg, where the Russians kept th ...

lucky date and he should give battle. More practically, he saw at once that Bennigsen had made an egregious mistake by deploying ...

his only remaining card and sent in the Russian Imperial Guard; these in turn were rapidly 'eaten up' by Ney's and Dupont's men. ...

who fought in this campaign, would later warn that offensives were always weakened by the very fact of advancing. In 1807 Napole ...

Napoleon with the words: 'Sire, I hate the English as much as you do.' 'In that case,' replied Napoleon, 'peace is established.' ...

Turkey as Selim had been deposed. 'This is an act of Providence; it tells me that the Ottoman empire can no longer exist.' By al ...

provinces in Poland were to be merged in a Grand Duchy of Warsaw, to be ruled by the King of Saxony. The Grand Duchy of Warsaw a ...

bulwark against Russia - and it was obvious that Alexander was merely playing for time. After Tilsit Napoleon turned his face ho ...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Napoleon returned to Paris from Dresden on 27 July r8o7. The next six weeks saw imperial triumphalism and cons ...

he took Josephine aside and suggested she should agree to a divorce in the interests of France and the dynasty. Josephine faced ...

interlocking cabals of intriguers at this juncture sometimes defy credibility. Caroline had numerous affairs with men of power a ...

in the way of her proposal. Josephine began increasingly to be aware of the thin ice on which she was skating, but calculated th ...

disgust, giving out, for purposes of 'family honour', that his brother had had to withdraw because of broken health and, once re ...

Prussia west of the Elbe. The scandal of his first marriage and the fiasco of his naval career proved no barrier to an illustrio ...

salpingitis - an inflamed uterine tube -as a result of gonorrhea and therefore constantly suffered pain, exhaustion and depressi ...

were still rows about her extravagance with money, but most of them were formulaic, for in his secret heart Napoleon thought tha ...

At first it seemed that Marie Walewska might be the catalyst that finally made Napoleon opt for a divorce. In March Talleyrand t ...

December 1807) and kept all ships engaged in American commerce in U.S. ports. With Russia, Austria, Prussia and Denmark cut off ...

Junot completed a lacklustre performance by failing to build an alliance with the liberal Portuguese bourgeoisie and introduce E ...

control the wealth of Latin America too. On the Latin American front he was seriously misinformed, for the great days of bullion ...