Napoleon: A Biography

Napoleon entered Milan in triumph on 15 May. Marmont remem­ bered him saying: 'Well, Marmont, what do you think they'll say in P ...

evident even before the French army debouched from the mountains on to the Lombardy plain. At Mondovi Bonaparte commandeered 8,o ...

from the same period shows clearly the source of his anxiety: Josephine did not write to him, and it was clear that she had no i ...

Hippolyte Charles, but since she was to all intents and purposes a nymphomaniac, Murat's version is not inherently implausible. ...

by the beginning of June he could tell himself that he controlled the entire Lombardy plain except the fortress of Mantua. Retur ...

but surely seldom in such an indirect, convoluted and comical way as this. According to contemporary witnesses, the Directors vi ...

lines of communication were too long, with hostile and disgruntled cities on their flanks. Napoleon saw clearly enough that his ...

Josephine relished the imperial style, but at first the Milanese burghers found her hard to take and the manners of her entourag ...

Napoleon was interested in, but control of the routes to and from the Tyrol. The new Austrian army was commanded by Count Dagobe ...

seriously, he could not leave behind an unpacified Italy. The clashes with Wurmser had been politically valuable to him, since a ...

divided his army and left the flanks unprotected, so that with three different corps it was vulnerable to six different flank at ...

Ferrara. But always his eye was on the Brenner pass, waiting for the Austrian offensive that was bound to come now that Moreau h ...

Croats called up reinforcements, as did the French, and a three-day slugging battle commenced in the marshes, ditches and dykes ...

began his campaign in earnest. Had he done so two days earlier, Napoleon would again have been severely defeated. As it was, Dav ...

any plans for parties, or to be interested in the happiness of a man who lives only for you ... I am not worth it ... When I beg ...

suspicions of Bonaparte could not be sustained. They promised him full support and gave him virtual carte blanche in Italy- psyc ...

besiegers of Mantua after giving Augereau the slip. On 16 January the French completely defeated Provera at La Favorita; 7,000 A ...

more embittered enemy of France than Rome was. He was also mindful of the likely consequence that he would ignite a second Vende ...

whatever, that he was a superior military talent to Bonaparte and should be commanding the Army of Italy. When Napoleon overawed ...

vingt-et-un and I stopped at twenty.' But at the time he was angry with the Directory for what he considered a calculated double ...