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Title: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Vol. III. (of IV.)

Author: William Milligan Sloane

Release Date: November 17, 2008 [EBook #27289]

Language: English

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[Illustration: From the collection of W. C. Crane. Engraved by T.
Levasseur.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

Drawn by F. Gerard.]

THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

BY

WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE
PH.D., L.H.D., LL.D.
_Professor of History in Columbia University_

Revised and Enlarged
With Portraits

VOLUME III

[Illustration: Editor's arm.]

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1916

Copyright, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910
BY
THE CENTURY CO.

_Published, October, 1910_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER Page

I. War with Russia: Pultusk................................ 1

II. Check to the Grand Army: Eylau......................... 12

III. An Indecisive Victory: Friedland....................... 24

IV. Napoleon and Alexander at Tilsit....................... 39

V. The Treaty of Tilsit................................... 54

VI. The Path of Napoleonic Empire.......................... 66

VII. The New Feudalism...................................... 80

VIII. The Empires of Land and Ocean.