Identifier: lifeofnapoleonbo00tarb (find matches)
Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nd have changed myshirt for the first time in eight days. The battle of Austerlitz obliged Austria to make peace (thetreaty was signed at Presburg on December 26, 1805), com-pelled Russia to retire disabled from the field, transformed thehaughty Prussian ultimatiin which had just been presentedinto humble submission, and changed the rejoicings ofEngland over the magnificent naval victory of Trafalgar(October 21st) into despair. It even killed Pitt. Napoleonit enabled to make enormous strides in establishing akingdom of the West. Naples was given to Joseph, theBavarian Republic was made a kingdom for Louis, and thestates between the Lahn, the Rhine, and the Upper Danubewere formed into a league, called the Confederation of theRhine, and Napoleon was made Protector. At the beginning of 1806 Napoleon was again in Paris.He had been absent but three months. Eight months of thisyear were spent in fruitless negotiations with England andin an irritating correspondence with Prussia. The latter
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lyo .. CAMPAIGN OF 1805 171 country had many grievances against Napoleon, the sum ofthem all being that French politics had been the scourgeof humanity for the last fifteen years, and- that an in-satiable ambition was still the ruling passion of France.By the end of September war was declared, and Napoleon,whose preparations had been conducted secretly, it beinggiven out that he was going to Compiegne to hunt, suddenlyjoined his army. The first week of October the Grand Army advanced fromsouthern Germany towards the valley of the Saale. Thismovement brought them on the flanks of the Prussians, whowere scattered along the upper Saale. The unexpected ap-pearance of the French army, which was larger and muchbetter organized than the Prussians, caused the latter toretreat towards the Elbe. The retreating army was in twodivisions; the first crossing the Saale to Jena, the secondfalling back towards the Unstrut. As soon as Napoleonunderstood these movements he despatched part of his fofceun

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