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"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty."
- Woodrow Wilson
(1856 - 1924)
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ZIN Product Number: 10035143
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 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 398 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195081773
Release Date: Jan 8, 1993
| |  | | | In Brief
This is an account of the "period beginning with Napoleon's escape from his exile on the Island of Elba in February 1815, through the period immediately following his defeat at Waterloo, June 1815, and his eventual exile on the Island of St. Helena." (Choice) Chronology. Bibliography. Index.
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Europe, 1815: the Great Powers believed that they had at last successfully crushed the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Divested of his empire, exiled to the tiny island of Elba, the ex-conqueror had no army, no money, no ships - nothing but an empty title and his unflagging ambition. But his audacity admitted no defeat. Mustering a minuscule army of a thousand men, with few supplies, he sailed for France and set into motion the events that over the next one hundred days would propel a beleaguered Europe once again into total war, ending with the catastrophic battle of Waterloo, the routing of his Grand Army, and his second - and final - exile. In One Hundred Days, Alan Schom shows us, in his lively, immediate narrative style, the inevitability of Napoleon's return from exile and his doomed bid for power. Landing unopposed on French soil, the emperor and his skeleton force began their march through a hostile countryside impoverished by years of war, famine, and conscription. Yet the charismatic leader managed to attract men and support: by the time they reached Paris with a force of 20,000, the Bourbon king Louis XVIII had abandoned the city, and Napoleon was greeted with parades and the shouts of citizens eager to align themselves with the stronger power. But war already loomed over his return. The Duke of Wellington and his Grand Allied Army, astonished and alarmed by Napoleon's rise from the ashes of exile, were already on the march and determined to quench him once and for all. The two armies met at Waterloo to fight the bitter three-day contest that would mark the end of Napoleon. Alan Schom's One Hundred Days is a detailed chronicle of the events that led up to the final fall of Napoleon, and a complex and vivid portrait of the personalities that surrounded him: the icily charming and self-serving Talleyrand; the brutal, fickle police minister Fouche, who helped form the first modern police state; the brave but vacillating Ney; the dogged Davout, the emperor's
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| | | |  | | | | Prologue | | | Acknowledgments | | | I | "Ile du Repos" | 1 | | II | The Sovereign of the Island of Elba | 12 | | III | "The Disturber of the Peace of the World" | 34 | | IV | The Brothers Bonaparte | 57 | | V | A Deadly Enemy | 85 | | VI | "The Most Wretched of All Professions" | 107 | | VII | A Land in Turmoil | 127 | | VIII | "Neither Peace Nor Truce" | 160 | | IX | Mobilization | 192 | | X | "Pour la Patrie" | 221 | | XI | Eve of Battle | 241 | | XII | Waterloo | 262 | | XIII | End of the Napoleonade | 295 | | Epilogue | 320 | | App. I. Chronology of Events | 323 | | App. II. The Thirty-Two Military Divisions of Metropolitan France and Conquered Territories | 325 | | App. III. Napoleon's Abdication Declaration, 22 June 1815 | 326 | | App. IV. Command Structure of French and Allied Armies at Waterloo | 326 | | App. V. Napoleon's March on Paris, 1-20 March 1815 | 330 | | Bibliography | 331 | | Notes | 339 | | Index | 385 |
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Napoleon, I,, Emperor of the French,, 1769-1821, Elba and the Hundred Days, 181, History - General History, History, Military - Napoleonic Wars, France, Waterloo, Battle of, 1815
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