Napoleon: A Biography

began fortifying the houses they occupied, ready for a bout of grim streetfighting, while Napoleon unsuccessfully tried to subor ...

list of lieutenants at the Ministry of War: 'Has given up his profession, and has been replaced on February 6th, 1792.' Some tim ...

return to Paris after the abortive flight to Varennes, and few observers doubted that it was the beginning of the end for Louis ...

against royal power. Of the revolutionaries, Danton, Robespierre, Rossignol and Santerre were all implicated in the day's gory e ...

If Louis XVI's luck had run out, it was beginning to turn Napoleon's way. A new government decree, on 17 August, ordered the dis ...

his scheming to get back to Corsica had been a mistake, that maybe the future did, after all, lie with the 4th Artillery Regimen ...

therefore schemed to denude the island of Napoleon's volunteers while secretly taking steps to ensure the ultimate failure of Tr ...

muddy fields to the embarkation point. Their labours were anyway in vain, for only a single ship's boat was sent in to San Stefa ...

April 1793 found Corsica at crisis point. Saliceti saw his chance to topple Paoli and become the number one man in the island. H ...

would leave Paoli with the spoils of victory. Napoleon's first idea was to bribe the new military commander of Ajaccio, Colonna ...

but was fired upon by the fort. Since only thirty people rallied to their standard in Ajaccio, the coup was abandoned next day. ...

cynical view is that he realized that there was no future in Corsica for an ambitious young man, that Paoli had already snatched ...

Since it is a commonplace of psychoanalysis, confirmed in hundreds of case studies of neurotics, that concern about the fatherla ...

It is very probable that the excessive concern about the union of Corsica and France expressed in Le Souper de Beaucaire -'he he ...

early 1793 makes no sense at all. Yet one of the reasons historians have so violently debated 'Napoleon, for and against' is the ...

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CHAPTER FIVE The refugee Bonaparte family reached Toulon to find the Terror at its height. As 'aristocrats' the Bonapartes might ...

was ordered up to A vignon to supervise a convoy bringing powder to the Mediterranean for use by the Army of Italy. Napoleon's e ...

ideas of the mature Napoleon clearly on display. 'All of Napoleon is to be found in the Souper de Beaucaire,' Jean Tulard wrote, ...