Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements

Chapter 57: Transcriber’s Notes

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A compact biography traces the life, character, military campaigns, political maneuvers, personal relationships, reforms, exiles, and final years of the French leader, presenting vivid sketches of Corsican origins, early military service, rise during the Revolution, Italian and Egyptian campaigns, the consulship and imperial rule, legal and administrative reforms, wars across Europe culminating in Waterloo, and exile on remote islands. It balances campaign narrative, portraits of habits and temperament, and excerpts from correspondence, aiming for an accessible, nontechnical account grounded in standard authorities rather than fresh archival research.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. (Exception: “Kleber” was changed to “Kléber”, even though the former occured more often than the latter, because the accented form is the correct one.)

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page 127: “Idealogists” was printed that way.

Page 301: “colaborers” was printed that way.

Illustration facing page 562: the caption ends with an asterisk.

Page 569: “a fretful man and a jealous” was printed that way.