Napoleonic studies

Napoleonic studies

Author: Rose, J. Holland (John Holland), 1855-1942

Year: 1904

Wordsworth, Schiller, Fichte, and the idealist revolt against Napoleon.--Pitt's plans for the settlement of Europe.--The religious belief of Napoleon.--Egypt during the first British occupation.--Canning and Denmark in 1807.--A British agent at Tilsit.--Napoleon and British commerce.--Britain's food supply in the Napoleonic war.--The Whigs and the French war.--Austria and the downfall of Napoleon.--The Prussian cooperation at Waterloo.--The detention of Napoleon by Great Britain.--Notes and documents: Nelson in the Mediterranean, 1796-1798. Preparations for the defence of Acre. The assassination of the Czar Paul. The beginning of the third coalition. Napoleon's plans for invading England. The French East Indian expedition at the Cape of 1803. The ice incident at the battle of Austerlitz. An intercepted French dispatch. Napoleon's last papers. Letters of Major Gorrequer from St. Helena