Napoleon's Letters To Josephine Part 46

FOOTNOTES

[30] At Bayonne.

[31] General Lefebvre--Desnouettes.

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"Berthier, incapable of acting a princ.i.p.al part, was surprised, and making a succession of false movements that would have been fatal to the French army, if the Emperor, journeying night and day, had not arrived at the very hour when his lieutenant was on the point of consummating the ruin of the army. But then was seen the supernatural force of Napoleon's genius. In a few hours he changed the aspect of affairs, and in a few days, maugre their immense number, his enemies, baffled and flying in all directions, proclaimed his mastery in an art which, up to that moment, was imperfect; for never, since troops first trod a field of battle, was such a display of military genius made by man."--NAPIER.

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(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 278-295.)

LETTER PAGE

Napoleon's position in Europe 278

No. 1. _Donauwerth_ 281 The Ratisbon proclamation, and first successes of the campaign up to April 23rd 281-2

No. 2. _May 6th_ 282 _The ball that touched me_ 283

No. 3. Baron Marbot's foray; and memories of Richard Coeur de Lion 284

No. 4. _Schoenbrunn_ 284-5 _May 12th_ 285

No. 5. _Ebersdorf_ 286 _Eugene... has completely performed the task_ 287

No. 6. _May 29th_ 288

No. 7. _I have ordered the two princes_ 288-9 _The Duke of Montebello_ 289 _Thus everything ends_ 289

No. 9. _Eugene won a battle_ 290

No. 11. _Wagram_ 290 _Lasalle_ 291 _I am sunburnt_ 291

No. 12. _A surfeit of bile_ 291 _Wolkersdorf_ 291

No. 16. _My affairs follow my wishes_ 292

No. 17. _August 21st_ 292

No. 18. _Comedians_ 292 _Women ... not having been presented_ 293

No. 19. _All this is very suspicious_ 293

No. 20. _Krems_ 293 _My health has never been better_ 293

No. 23. _October 14th_ 294

No. 24. _Stuttgard_ 295

LETTERS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE DURING THE AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN, 1809.

EVENTS OF 1809.

_January 7th._--King and Queen of Prussia visit Alexander at St.

Petersburg.

_January 12th._--Cayenne and French Guiana captured by Spanish and Portuguese South Americans.

_January 13th._--Combat of Alcazar. Victor defeats Spaniards.

_January 14th._--Treaty of Alliance between England and Spain.

_January 16th._--Battle of Corunna. Moore killed; Baird wounded.

_January 17th._--English army sails for England.

_January 22nd._--King Joseph returns to Madrid.

_January 27th._--Soult takes Ferrol (retaken by English, June 22nd).

_February 21st._--Lannes takes Saragossa.

_February 23rd._--English capture Martinique.

_March 4th._--Madison made President of United States.

_March 29th._--Soult fights battle of Oporto. Spaniards lose 20,000 men and 200 guns. Gustavus Adolphus abdicates throne of Sweden.

_April 9th._--Austrians under Archduke Charles cross the Inn, enter Bavaria, and take Munich. _Napoleon receives this news April 12th, and reaches Strasburg April 15th._

_April 15th._--Eugene defeated on the Tagliamento.

_April 16th._--And at Sacile.