Napoleon In Exile Elba
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Napoleon On Elba
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Author : Neil Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Ravenhall Books
Release Date : 2004
Napoleon On Elba written by Neil Campbell and has been published by Ravenhall Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In April 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte, onetime emperor of France and master of Europe, was exiled to the island of Elba. Colonel Neil Campbell was instructed to accompany the fallen monarch. Part guardian, part spy, Campbell monitored Napoleon and kept an observant watch on the comings and goings of his confidents and much reduced household staff. He eavesdropped on the island's gossip, conversed almost daily with Napoleon, attempted to gain his trust and sought to gauge his intentions. For a year, Campbell kept an intimate diary of events on the tiny island. It paints character studies of all the key personalities and wades into island gossip with relish. It records events as Napoleon builds an empire in miniature on Elba and it keeps an eye on the coming and going of agents and would-be assassins. Frank and enlightening it also reveals much about the personality of Napoleon and of the tensions and subterfuge within the exiled community as Napoleon devises and implements his plans for an escape. The vivid diary is now published in a new accessible edition and it is essential reading for anyone with an interest in this era when the fate of empires hung in the balance.
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Author : Norwood Young
language : en
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Release Date : 1914
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The Escape From Elba
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Author : Norman Mackenze
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2007-09-20
The Escape From Elba written by Norman Mackenze and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-20 with History categories.
The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain - the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within ten months Napoleon will enter Paris once again, at the heels of the fleeing Bourbon king, flushed with victory and cheered by the masses. The Escape From Elba tells the heroic story of Napoleon's exile and phoenix-like return. In this classic account, now republished in paperback, Norman MacKenzie chronicles this extraordinary year: the tense last hours of Napoleon's empire, his humiliating exile, his midnight escape and his whirlwind march over snowbound mountains to Grenoble where, in a dramatic confrontation with the French army, he became a reigning prince again. Described in vivid detail are Napoleon's adventures as the head of Elba. He brought society, splendour, organization and political intrigue to this run-down backwater. And he displayed on this small stage the many sides of his charismatic.
The Invisible Emperor
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Author : Mark Braude
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-10-09
The Invisible Emperor written by Mark Braude and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with History categories.
Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude's The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte's ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some eighty million people, he suddenly found himself exiled to Elba, less than a hundred square miles of territory. This would have been the end of him, if Europe's rulers had had their way. But soon enough Napoleon imposed his preternatural charisma and historic ambition on both his captors and the very island itself, plotting his return to France and to power. After ten months of exile, he escaped Elba with just of over a thousand supporters in tow, landed near Antibes, marched to Paris, and retook the Tuileries Palace--all without firing a shot. Not long after, tens of thousands of people would die fighting for and against him at Waterloo. Braude dramatizes this strange exile and improbable escape in granular detail and with novelistic relish, offering sharp new insights into a largely overlooked moment. He details a terrific cast of secondary characters, including Napoleon's tragically-noble official British minder on Elba, Neil Campbell, forever disgraced for having let "Boney" slip away; and his young second wife, Marie Louise who was twenty-two to Napoleon's forty-four, at the time of his abdication. What emerges is a surprising new perspective on one of history's most consequential figures, which both subverts and celebrates his legendary persona. The Invisible Emperor is both a riveting story and an original examination of how preposterous, quixotic, and grandiose ideas can suddenly leap from the imagination and into reality.
Napoleon In Exile
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Author : Norwood Young
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-10
Napoleon In Exile written by Norwood Young and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with categories.
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Author : Norwood Young
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-07-20
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Excerpt from Napoleon in Exile: Elba From the Entry of the Allies Into Paris on the 31st March 1814 to the Return of Napoleon From Elba and His Landing at Golfe Jouan on the 1st March 1815 THE Elban episode in Napoleon's career has not received the attention it deserves. It reveals to us the man unencumbered by the weight of the Empire, and not yet given up to the pose for posterity; and it helps us to understand the course of events at St. Helena. Elba explains St. Helena. For that reason the two subjects are included in one work, under the title of " Napoleon in Exile." The first volume, dealing with Elba, is published on the 31st March, 1914, exactly one hundred years after the entry of the Allies into Paris. Two volumes dealing with St. Helena it is hoped to publish on the 1st March, 1915, the centenary of the landing of Napoleon on the coast of France on his return from Elba. It has been my privilege to be given free use of the unpublished Elba material, including a large number of letters signed or initialed by Napoleon, collected by the late Earl of Crawford. I have also to thank Professor Vigo, Curator of the archives of the city of Leghorn, Mr. Montgomery Carmichael, British Consul at Leghorn, Mr. J. C. Airey, British Vice-Consul at Portoferraio, and Signor Piladc del Buono, formerly proprietor of the San Martino estate, for valuable assistance given me in various ways during my visits to Leghorn and Elba. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Napoleon In Exile
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Author : Norwood Young
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-03
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.
Napoleon In Exile
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Author : Norwood
language : en
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Release Date : 1914
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Napoleon S Escape From Elba
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Author : Charles River
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-03-20
Napoleon S Escape From Elba written by Charles River and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-20 with History categories.
Though Napoleon's unquenchable thirst for military adventurism eventually cost him both his throne and his freedom during the Napoleonic Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the French emperor was not easily defeated even when most of Europe's nations united against him. In 1812, Napoleon's Russian adventure gutted his veteran army, depriving him of the majority of his finest and most loyal soldiers. Those who remained formed the hard core of his new armies, but the Russian fiasco damaged their health and embittered their previously unquestioning loyalty. Napoleon raised vast new armies, but circumstances compelled him to fill the ranks with raw recruits. These factors set the stage for the second setback, which essentially sealed the fate of Napoleon's empire. The four-day Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, romantically but accurately dubbed the "Battle of the Nations," proved the decisive encounter of the War of the Sixth Coalition and essentially determined the course the Napoleonic Wars took from that moment forward. Although Napoleon was exiled, he was allowed to retain the title of Emperor and was given de facto control over Elba. But it should not be surprising the man who once ruled Europe was not content with the island of Elba. Separated from his family and cast away on a small island, Napoleon attempted suicide by taking a poison pill, but he had first carried the pill with him on the retreat from Moscow, rightly concerned about an uncertain fate at the time. The aging process had fatally weakened the pill, which stopped it from fatally weakening Napoleon. Though the emperor busied himself developing the island's industries and had established a miniature army and navy, he must still have found time to brood upon his situation and could not have helped but think of himself as reduced to laughing stock. The "Emperor of Elba" was a poor title for a man who had once ruled over more than half of mainland Europe. Even some of Napoleon's old Marshals, like Murat, now controlled more territory than the man who had raised them in the first place. To add insult to injury, the salary he had been promised in the Treaty of Fontainebleau and that was meant to keep him in relative luxury was often late and sometimes failed to arrive at all. Coupled with his deteriorating health and the express refusal of the Austrian court to let him speak or write to his wife and son, Napoleon must have felt himself well and truly slighted. Beaten, but not defeated, he resolved to show the Coalition powers he could still make Europe tremble. Of all the incredible military feats Napoleon accomplished, none were more impressive than his escape from Elba and his return to France, which was literally a bloodless revolution. On February 26, 1815, Napoleon escaped from Elba, and in a desperate gamble, he landed on the French mainland with less than a thousand men and marched on Paris. What happened next was truly remarkable. An infantry regiment was sent to intercept Napoleon and his men, but Napoleon rode up to them alone and shouted, "Here I am. Kill your Emperor, if you wish." Upon seeing their once invincible leader before them, the soldiers mutinied and went over to his side en masse. Other corps soon followed, and in no time at all Napoleon found himself at the head of an army marching on Paris. The newly reinstituted Bourbon monarch fled the city, and so, with barely a shot fired, Napoleon found himself enthroned as emperor once more. In an astonishing feat of political chutzpah and military organization, within three months he had seized power anew and rebuilt his veteran forces to a strength of 200,000 men. Of these, 128,000 were assembled into the Armee du Nord, under Napoleon's personal command. Its mission quickly became the destruction of the British-Allied and Prussian armies assembling near Brussels, which would lead to Waterloo, arguably the most famous battle in European history.
The Island Empire Or The Scenes Of The First Exile Of The Emperor Napoleon I Together With A Narrative Of His Residence On The Island Of Elba Taken From Local Information The Papers Of The British Resident And Other Authentic Sources
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Author : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
language : en
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Release Date : 1855
The Island Empire Or The Scenes Of The First Exile Of The Emperor Napoleon I Together With A Narrative Of His Residence On The Island Of Elba Taken From Local Information The Papers Of The British Resident And Other Authentic Sources written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Elba (Italy) categories.