Charles esdaile napoleons wars an internatio 815 (v5 0)

Table of Contents PENGUIN BOOKS Title Page Copyright Page Dedication List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter - The Origins of the Napoleonic Wars Chapter - From Brumaire to Amiens Chapter - The Peace of Amiens Chapter - Towards the Third Coalition Chapter - Austerlitz Chapter - Zenith of Empire Chapter - Across the Pyrenees Chapter - From Madrid to Vienna Chapter - The Alliance that Failed Chapter 10 - Downfall Chapter 11 - The Congress of Vienna Notes Glossary of Place Names Bibliography Index PENGUIN BOOKS NAPOLEON’S WARS Charles Esdaile is one of Britain’s foremost Napoleonic historians He is professor in history at the University of Liverpool and the author of The Peninsular War: A New History and Spain in the Liberal Age, among other books He lives near Formby, England PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL , England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL , England First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd 2007 First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc 2008 Published in Penguin Books (UK) 2008 Published in Penguin Books (USA) 2009 Copyright © Charles Esdaile, 2007 All rights reserved Illustration credits appear on pages ix-xi eISBN : 978-1-101-46437-3 CIP data available The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated http://us.penguingroup.com For my mother, Elizabeth Alice Ellen Esdaile, with much love List of Illustrations Napoleon Bonaparte as 1st Consul, copy after a lost portrait by Robert Lefevre, 1803, in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: The Art Archive / Dagli Orti) Napoleon Giving Orders before the Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805, 1808, by Antoine Charles Horace Vernet in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: Lauros/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library) The Result of the Day of the Three Emperors , caricature drawn after the battle of Austerlitz by French school (nineteenth century) in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (photo: Lauros/Giraudon/ The Bridgeman Art Library) The Fall of Nelson by Denis Dighton, early nineteenth century © National Maritime Museum, London Duckworth’s Action off San Domingo, 6th February 1806 , by Nicholas Pocock, 1808 © National Maritime Museum, London The French Army Pulling Down the Rossbach Column, 18th October 1806 (detail) by Pierre Vafflard, 1810, in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: Lauros / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library) Entry of Napoleon I into Berlin, 27th October 1806, by 1810 Charles Meynier, ,1810 in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: Lauros/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library) Le Jeu des Quatre Coins ou Les Cinq Frères , 1808, French school, in a private collection (photo: The Bridgeman Art Library) Napoleon receives Tsar Alexander I, Queen Louise and King Frederick William III of Prussia at Tilsit, July 6, 1807 (detail) by Nicholas Gosse in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: The Art Archive/Dagli Orti) Boney and Talley, or The Corsican Carcass - Butcher’s Reckoning Day , by James Gillray, 1803, courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford (photo: The Bridgeman Art Library) The Second of May, Madrid, 1808, copy by A Alvarez after an original by Manuel Castellano in the Municipal Museum of Madrid (photo: AISA, Barcelona) The Rage of Napoleon, cartoon by early nineteenth century Spanish school (photo: AISA, Barcelona) The Surrender of Bailen, 23rd July 1808 (detail) by José Casado del Alisal in the Prado, Madrid (photo: The Bridgeman Art Library) Napoleon and Marie-Louise at the Launch of ‘The Friedland’ at Antwerp, 2nd May 1810 (detail) by Mathieu Ignace van Bree in the Musée du Château de Versailles (photo: Lauros/Giraudon/ The Bridgeman Art Library) British Sailors Boarding a Man-of-War, Hermione, 25 October 1799 (detail) by Fry and Sutherland after John Atkinson, © National Maritime Museum, London Ski-born troops at the Battle of Trangen, 1808, (detail) by Andreas Bloch, from Syv-aars-krigen for 17 Mai 1807-1814 (pub 1914) by Henrik Angell (photo: courtesy Forsvarsmuseet, Oslo) Portrait of Petrovic Karadjordje , 1816, by Vladimir Borovikovsky in the National Museum, Belgrade A Reception at the court of Selim III, in the Divan Court of the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul , Ottoman School, late eighteenth century (photo: The Art Archive/Topkapi Museum Istanbul / Dagli Orti) ... the many instances in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and the Balkans where foreign names have changed in the wake of twentieth-century shifts in frontiers, ethnicities and political allegiances,... somehow stands for liberty, progress and the advancement of the ‘little man’ Hence the triumph of Napoleon as brand name, and the prominence his figure has achieved in the world of advertising (and... 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