Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de France sous Napoléon, Tome 1/2 / écrits à Sainte-Hélène par les généraux qui ont partagé sa captivité

The memoirs record the author's observations and firsthand accounts from captivity on Saint Helena, offering detailed military narratives of sieges, coastal defenses, and campaigns in Italy and the Mediterranean, descriptions of planning, troop dispositions, and command decisions, episode-by-episode recollections of operations such as Toulon and Marengo, and reflections on discipline, logistics, and personalities; the text combines tactical reportage with corrective editorial notes about the manuscripts and is organized into chronological chapters with occasional errata and transcription commentary.