THE STORY OF
NAPOLEON
Uniform with this Volume
THE STORY OF NAPOLEON
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,
F.R.Hist.S.
THE STORY OF NELSON
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,
F.R.Hist.S.
THE STORY OF WELLINGTON
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,
F.R.Hist.S.
FAMOUS VOYAGES OF THE GREAT DISCOVERERS
By Eric Wood.
THE STORY OF THE CRUSADES
By E. M. Wilmot-Buxton,F.R.Hist.S.
STORIES OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER
By Mr and Mrs William Platt.
HEROES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
By E. M. Tappan, Ph.D.
HEROES OF MODERN EUROPE
By Alice Birkhead, B.A.
THE CONQUERORS OF PERU
Retold from Prescott by Henry Gilbert.
THE NORTHMEN IN BRITAIN
By Eleanor Hull.
STORIES FROM DUTCH HISTORY
By Arthur H. Dawson.
THE STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
By Alice Birkhead, B.A.
THE CONQUERORS OF MEXICO
Retold from Prescott by Henry Gilbert.
STORIES FROM GERMAN HISTORY
By Florence Aston.
THE STORY OF LORD ROBERTS
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,
F.R.Hist.S.
Napoleon I., Emperor of the French
From the painting by David
Fr.
THE STORY OF
NAPOLEON
BY
Harold F. B. Wheeler
F.R.Hist.S.
JOINT-AUTHOR OF
‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’
AND ‘THE WAR IN WEXFORD’
AUTHOR OF ‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’ ETC.
‘There was an eye to see in this
man, a soul to dare and do. He rose
naturally to be the King. All men
saw that he was such.’ Carlyle
LONDON
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There is no more marvellous story in humanhistory than that of Napoleon I., Emperor ofthe French. His career is one long demonstrationof the rea