Bonaparte

Corelli Barnett

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138932746
• eBook ISBN: 9781317392965
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This book, originally published in 1978, argues that there was no 'turning-point' in Bonaparte's career, but rather a consistent pattern from beginning to end. As a commander Bonaparte's forte was speed and aggressiveness. As a planner, however he was slapdash: his armies starved and went barefoot. The author argues that far from being a master of concentration of force on the battlefield, he was again and again caught with his army dispersed and only rescued from disaster by the last-minute arrival of reinforcements.

Index

Bonaparte sketched from life by Samuel Decimus Davies either on HMS Northumberland or on St Helena. Barclays Bank Limited

Persons, places, and incidents mentioned only once or twice, and of minor importance in the context, are omitted: ‘f’ after a number indicates that the name occurs on two, ‘ff’ on three, ‘fff’ on four consecutive pages; mentions on more than four consecutive pages are indicated, e.g., 45–51 passim. Italic numbers refer to pages on which illustrations occur.

Aboukir, Egypt, 65; Aboukir Bay, 58, 175

Acre, Palestine, 61ff; siege of, 64, 64; 74, 95, 112, 129, 173

Adige, the River, Italy, 49ff, 187, 190

Ajaccio, Corsica, 11–17 passim, 21, 26, 28, 30, 37, 45, 61, 68, 87, 206

Ajaccio Jacobin Club, 26

Alessandria, Italy, 44, 76f

Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.), 61, 88; Bonaparte a new, 45

Alexander 1 (1777–1825), Tsar of Russia from 1801, 105, 106, 113f, 122, 125f; meeting with Bonaparte at Tilsit, 1807, 133f, 134,144, 148, 157f, 164f, 171, 174, 177f, 183

Alexandria, Egypt, captured by Bonaparte, 56; 57

Alps, the, 53, 72, 108, 120, 151, 205

Alvinzi, Joseph Count von Barbarek (1735–1810), 48ff, 78, 115f, 149, 189

Amiens, Treaty of, with England, 25 March 1802, 78, 87f, 92f

ancien régime, the, 11, 54, 56, 84, 98, 107, 125, 150, 188, 200

Anglo-Russian alliance, 1805, 101, 105f

Aosta, Italy, 72, 74f, 110

Apennines, war in the, 36, 43, 66, 71f

Arabs, the, 56; Bonaparte and, 59–60

Arcola, Italy, Battle of, November 1796, 49f, 67, 69, 78, 185

army, uniforms of Bonaparte’s, 129

Aspern, Austria, Battle of, May 1809, Bonaparte defeated at, 152fff, 186

Auerstädt, Germany, Battle of, 14 October 1806, 123; 124f, 185, 204

Augereau, Pierre François Charles (1757–1816), 49, 55, 109, 114, 192

Austerlitz, Bohemia, Battle of, 2 December 1805, 114–17; 118, 120, 123ff, 129, 150, 153, 169, 174f, 185, 196, 203, 207f

Austria: National Assembly declares war on, 29; war against, 36, 43f; 45f, 53; Treaty of Ca...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Dedication
• Original Copyright
• CONTENTS
• AUTHOR’S FOREWORD
• AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• MAPS
• PROLOGUE
• I. ALONE IN THE MIDST OF MEN
• II. THE ATTRIBUTES OF A TYRANT
• III. FORTUNE IS A WOMAN
• IV. EVERYTHING I UNDERTAKE MUST SUCCEED
• V. THE LOYAL ARM OF THE REPUBLIC
• VI. THERE MUST NOT BE ANY OPPOSITION
• VII. A DITCH WHICH WILL BE LEAPED
• VIII. THE MARCH TO AUSTERLITZ
• IX. I DESIRE ONLY YOU
• X. AMBITION IS NEVER CONTENT
• XI. HIS CURIOSITY TO SEE THE DEAD
• XII. BUT HOW WILL ALL THIS END?
• XIII. HIS MAJESTY’S HEALTH HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER
• XIV. AFTER SUCH BUTCHERY, NO RESULT
• XV. GLORY IS IN MOURNING
• APPENDICES
• INDEX