Bonaparte
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Bonaparte

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Bonaparte

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781138932746
eBook ISBN
9781317392965
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Index

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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

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Dedication
  7. Original Copyright
  8. CONTENTS
  9. AUTHOR’S FOREWORD
  10. AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  11. MAPS
  12. PROLOGUE
  13. I. ALONE IN THE MIDST OF MEN
  14. II. THE ATTRIBUTES OF A TYRANT
  15. III. FORTUNE IS A WOMAN
  16. IV. EVERYTHING I UNDERTAKE MUST SUCCEED
  17. V. THE LOYAL ARM OF THE REPUBLIC
  18. VI. THERE MUST NOT BE ANY OPPOSITION
  19. VII. A DITCH WHICH WILL BE LEAPED
  20. VIII. THE MARCH TO AUSTERLITZ
  21. IX. I DESIRE ONLY YOU
  22. X. AMBITION IS NEVER CONTENT
  23. XI. HIS CURIOSITY TO SEE THE DEAD
  24. XII. BUT HOW WILL ALL THIS END?
  25. XIII. HIS MAJESTY’S HEALTH HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER
  26. XIV. AFTER SUCH BUTCHERY, NO RESULT
  27. XV. GLORY IS IN MOURNING
  28. APPENDICES
  29. INDEX