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Alexandre Dumas. NAPOLEON

NAPOLEON

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PREFACE

CHAPTER I. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

CHAPTER II. GENERAL BONAPARTE

CHAPTER III. BONAPARTE—FIRST CONSUL

CHAPTER IV. NAPOLEON EMPEROR

CHAPTER V. NAPOLEON AT THE ISLAND OF ELBA

CHAPTER VI. THE HUNDRED DAYS

CHAPTER VII. NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA

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Alexandre Dumas

The Legacy and the Extraordinary Man Behind It

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But however great was the assurance of the General-in-chief, he could not get possession of Toulon without knowing its location. So he had patience until the next day. But at the break of day he took his Aide-de-camp, Dupas, and Bonaparte, the Chief of Battalion, into his cabriolet in order to inspect the first offensive arrangements. Upon the observations of Bonaparte he had, although with regret, renounced the bayonet and had come back to the artillery. In consequence, orders were given directly by the General-in-chief, and these were those orders, the execution and performance of which he had just examined and hastened.

The heights from which they discovered Toulon, couched in the midst of its semi-oriental garden and bathing its feet in the sea, were scarcely reached when the General alighted from his cabriolet with the two young men and plunged into a vineyard, in the midst of which he perceived some pieces of cannon ranged behind a sort of epaulement. Bonaparte looked around him and divined nothing that was going on. The General enjoyed an instant the astonishment of his Chief of Battalion, then turning towards his Aide-de-camp with a smile of satisfaction, he said:

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