The Rise Of Napoleon BonaparteEver since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first volume of a two-volume cradle-to-grave biography, Robert Asprey instead treats him as a human being. Asprey tells this fascinating, tragic tale in lush narrative detail. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an exciting, reckless thrill ride as Asprey charts Napoleon's vertiginous ascent to fame and the height of power. Here is Napoleon as he was-not saint, not sinner, but a man dedicated to and ultimately devoured by his vision of himself, his empire, and his world. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 7 |
CHAPTER | 13 |
CHAPTER THREE | 22 |
Auxonne and Corsica | 34 |
The Paris Cauldron MayiOctober 1792 | 53 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 63 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 69 |
Napoleon Goes to War ulySeptember I793 | 79 |
The Second Battle of Rivoli january I 797 | 207 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO | 218 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE | 231 |
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR | 245 |
CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE | 256 |
CHAPTER TWENTYSIX | 271 |
CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN | 283 |
CHAPTER TWENTYEIGHT | 299 |
CHAPTER | 90 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 98 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 107 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 120 |
The General April 1796 | 134 |
The Invasion of Lombardy | 154 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 165 |
The Battle of Rivoli | 172 |
The Battle of Arcola November 1796 | 185 |
CHAPTER TWENTY | 198 |
CHAPTER TWENTYNINE | 314 |
CHAPTER THIRTY | 327 |
The End of a Dream | 500 |
CHAPTER FORTYSIX | 513 |
Victory in Austria Defeat at Trafalgar | 525 |
The Day of the Three Emperors | 535 |
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