Napoleon's Wars_ An International History, 1803-1815 - Charles Esdaile [0]
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Origins of the Napoleonic Wars
Chapter 2 - From Brumaire to Amiens
Chapter 3 - The Peace of Amiens
Chapter 4 - Towards the Third Coalition
Chapter 5 - Austerlitz
Chapter 6 - Zenith of Empire
Chapter 7 - Across the Pyrenees
Chapter 8 - From Madrid to Vienna
Chapter 9 - The Alliance that Failed
Chapter 10 - Downfall
Chapter 11 - The Congress of Vienna
Notes
Glossary of Place Names
Bibliography
Index
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NAPOLEON’S WARS
Charles Esdaile is one of Britain’s foremost Napoleonic historians. He is professor in history at the University of Liverpool and the author of The Peninsular War: A New History and Spain in the Liberal Age, among other books. He lives near Formby, England.
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First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd 2007 First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2008 Published in Penguin Books (UK) 2008 Published in Penguin Books (USA) 2009
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For my mother, Elizabeth Alice Ellen Esdaile, with much love
List of Illustrations
Napoleon Bonaparte as 1st Consul, copy after a lost portrait by Robert Lefevre, 1803, in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: The Art Archive / Dagli Orti).
Napoleon Giving Orders before the Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805, 1808, by Antoine Charles Horace Vernet in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: Lauros/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library).
The Result of the Day of the Three Emperors, caricature drawn after the battle of Austerlitz by French school (nineteenth century) in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (photo: Lauros/Giraudon/ The Bridgeman Art Library).
The Fall of Nelson by Denis Dighton, early nineteenth century © National Maritime Museum, London.
Duckworth’s Action off San Domingo, 6th February 1806, by Nicholas Pocock, 1808. © National Maritime Museum, London. The French Army Pulling Down the Rossbach Column, 18th October 1806 (detail) by Pierre Vafflard, 1810, in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: Lauros / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library).
Entry of Napoleon I into Berlin, 27th October 1806, by 1810 Charles Meynier, ,1810 in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: Lauros/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library).
Le Jeu des Quatre Coins ou Les Cinq Frères, 1808, French school, in a private collection (photo: The Bridgeman Art Library).
Napoleon receives Tsar Alexander I, Queen Louise and