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LIFE OF NAPOLEON
Pocket Edition
VOL. IV.
LIFE OF
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
By SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOL. 4.
MayenceEDINBURGH; A. & C. BLACK.
1876
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Chap. XLIX.—Conduct of Russia and England during the War withAustria—Meditated Expedition of British Troops to the Continent—Sentto Walcheren—Its Calamitous Details and Result—Proceedings of Napoleonwith regard to the Pope—General Miollis enters Rome—Napoleonpublishes a Decree, uniting the States of the Church to the FrenchEmpire—Is Excommunicated—Pius VII. is banished from Rome, and sentto Grenoble—afterwards brought back to Savona—Buonaparte is attackedby an Assassin—Definitive Treaty of Peace signed at Schoenbrun—Napoleonreturns to France on the 14th November, 1809, 1
Chap. L.—Change in Napoleon's Domestic Life—Causes which ledto it—His anxiety for an Heir—A Son of his Brother Louis is fixedupon, but dies in Childhood—Character and influence of Josephine—Strongmutual Attachment betwixt her and Napoleon—Fouché opens toJosephine the Plan of a Divorce—Her extreme Distress—On 5th December,Napoleon announces her Fate to Josephine—On 15th they areformally separated before the Imperial Council—Josephine retainingthe rank of Empress for Life—Espousals of Buonaparte and MariaLouisa of Austria take place at Vienna, 11th March, 1810, 17
Chap. LI.—Almost all the Foreign French Settlements fall intothe hands of the British—French Squadron destroyed at the Isle of Aix,by Lord Cochrane—and at the Isle of Rosas, by Lord Collingwood—Returnto the Proceedings in Spain—Soult takes Oporto—Attacked and Defeatedby Sir Arthur Wellesley—Ferrol and Corunna retaken by the Patriots—Battleof Talavera, gained by Sir Arthur Wellesley—Created LordWellington—The French Armies take many Towns and Strong Places—SupremeJunta Retreat to Cadiz—The Guerilla System—GrowingDisappointment of Buonaparte—His immense Exertions—Battle ofBusaco—Lord Wellington's famous Retreat on Torres Vedras, 28
Chap. LII.—Change in Napoleon's Principles of Government—Becomessuspicious of Talleyrand and Fouché—Fouché endeavours,{iv}without the knowledge of Napoleon, to ascertain the Views of England with respectto Peace