The Escape From Elba
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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.
Escape From Elba
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Author : James Ernest Games
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-10-01
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The Invisible Emperor
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Author : Mark Braude
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2018-09-27
The Invisible Emperor written by Mark Braude and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-27 with History categories.
Few historical figures are as well-known as Napoleon Bonaparte, and yet the Emperor's ten-month exile on the small island of Elba is virtually unexplored. Now, for the first time, we have a window into this critical moment when the most powerful man on earth turns defeat into one final challenge. A close character study mixed with a world-shaking drama, The Invisible Emperor will show Napoleon as he's never before been seen: as heart-broken husband, civil engineer, interior decorator, gardener and spy master. It will show a man at his nadir rise up against the global odds to build a miniature island empire, turn his two greatest foes into his closest confidantes, and return to France without firing a single shot.
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 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 Downfall Of Napoleon
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 182?
The Downfall Of Napoleon written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 182? with categories.
The Downfall Of Napoleon
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-12
The Downfall Of Napoleon written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-12 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Downfall of Napoleon: His Escape From Elba, the Battle of Waterloo, Captivity in St. Helena, and Death; From Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte From Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon we have extracted, with some slight curtailment, the episode of those famous "Hundred Days" in which the Emperor made his final struggle for power. The Battle of Waterloo, which forms the main incident, has been the theme of much paper warfare. Our great story-teller was sure to make the most of the patriotic and picturesque features; he had the advantage of visiting the field, and of conversing with officers engaged in the battle; and his spirited narrative may be accepted as essentially accurate. The main story is here introduced by the chapter dealing with Napoleon's life on Elba, and concludes with the account of his last days on St. Helena - the whole completing one of the most romantic and resounding episodes in modern history, which is here prefaced by a brief summary of the previous events in the life of this extraordinary man. Napoleon Buonaparte was born in 1769 at Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, which had not long before become a French possession. 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.
The Downfall Of Napoleon His Escape From Elba The Battle Of Waterloo Captivity In St Helena And Death From Sir Walter Scott S Life Of Napo
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Release Date : 2018-11-10
The Downfall Of Napoleon His Escape From Elba The Battle Of Waterloo Captivity In St Helena And Death From Sir Walter Scott S Life Of Napo written by Walter Scott and has been published by Franklin Classics Trade Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-10 with History categories.
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The Downfall Of Napoleon
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Author : Sir Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
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The Downfall Of Napoleon
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-14
The Downfall Of Napoleon written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-14 with categories.
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