Download or read book The Little Corsican Napoleon Bonaparte Classic Reprint written by Esse V. Hathaway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Little Corsican Napoleon Bonaparte It is true in literature as it is in money that the truest capacity to detect the counterfeit is intimate, familiar knowledge of the genuine. It is not enough merely to know that there are works in our literature which have proven their immortal, classic quality, but equally as important to be able to name some or all of them. It is not enough even to be able to say that one has read them. They must be, so to speak, men tally absorbed. They must sink deep into and be assimilated by our intellectual life, and so become a part of our being. By just so much as any genera tion accomplishes this, and makes itself affectionately familiar with all that is possible of that literature which has crystallized into immortality; by just so much it has raised the plane on which the next generation must begin its career, and thus has contributed toward the uplifting evolution of humanity. These Golden Classics are meant to put the means of rising to this plane within easy reach; Opening a path which every aspiring reader may follow in full confidence that he will not be led astray. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mr Bonaparte of Corsica written by John Kendrick Bangs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by John Kendrick Bangs
Download or read book The Corsican written by Napoleon I and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon's Life in His Own Words Lentuedbrienne, andwaahappy.mymindwasbo ginningtoworkdwasanxionatolearmtoknomtoget on;ldevomedbooh. Iaoonbecamethetalkoltbe school. Lwasodmind.envied;lwaaoonadouaolnv powmdenioyedmmwiodty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon the Little written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Bonaparte of Corsica Classic Reprint written by John Kendrick Bangs and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica Under French domina tion, on the 1sth day of August, 1769. Had he been born two months earlier, we are told, he would have been an Italian. Had he been born a hun dred years later, it is difficult to say what he would have been. AS it was, he was born a Frenchman. It is not pleasant to contem plate what the man's future would have been had he been born an Italian, nor is it easy to picture that future with any confi dence born of certainty. Since the days Of Caesar, Italy had not produced any great military commander, and it is not likely that the powers would have changed their scheme, confirmed by sixteen centuries of Observance, in Napoleon's behalf - a fact which Napoleon himself realized, for he Often said in his latter days, with a Shlld'der: I hate to think how inglorious I should have become had been born two months earlier and entered the world as an Italian. I should have been anoth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by William Milligan Sloane and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 In the closing years of the eighteenth century European society began its effort to get rid of benevolent despotism, so called, and to secure its liberties under forms of constitutional government. The struggle began in France, and spread over the more important lands of continental Europe; its influence was strongly felt in England, and even in the United States. Passing through the phases of constitutional reform, of anarchy, and of military despotism, the movement seemed for a time to have failed, and to outward appearances absolutism was stronger after Waterloo than it had been half a century earlier. But the force of the revolution was only checked, not spent; and to the awakening of general intelligence, the strengthening of national feeling, and the upbuilding of a sense of common brotherhood among men, produced by the revolutionary struggles of this epoch, Europe owes whatever liberty and free government its peoples now enjoy. At the close of this period national power was no longer in the hands of the aristocracy, nor in those of kings; it had passed into the third social stratum, variously designated as the middle class, the burghers or bourgeoisie, and the third estate, a body of men as little willing to share it with the masses as the kings had been. Nevertheless, the transition once begun could not be stopped, and the advance of manhood suffrage has ever since been proportionate to the capacity of the laboring classes to receive and use it, until now at last, whatever may be the nominal form of government in any civilized land, its stability depends entirely upon the support of the people as a whole. That which is the basis of all government-the power of the purse - has passed into their hands. This momentous change was of course a turbulent one-the most turbulent in the history of civilization, as it has proved to be the most comprehensive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The History of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol 1 of 4 Classic Reprint written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 of 4 The dilapidated villa in Corsica, where Napoleon passed his infantile years, still exists, and the thoughtful tourist loses himself in pensive reverie as he wanders over the lawn where those children have played - as he passes through the vegetable garden in the rear of the house, which enticed them to toil with their tiny hoes and spades, and as he struggles through the Wil derness of shrubbery, now running to wild waste, in the midst of which once could have been heard the merry shouts of these infantile kings and queens. Their voices are now hushed in death. But the records of earth can not show a more eventful drama than that enacted by these young Bonapartes between the cradle and the grave. There is, in a sequestered and romantic spot upon the ground, an isolated granite rock, of wild and rugged form, in the fissures of which there is some thing resembling a cave, which still retains the name of Napoleon's Grotto. This solitary rock was the favorite resort of the pensive and meditative child, even in his earliest years. When his brothers and sisters were in most happy companionship in the garden or on the lawn, and the air resounded with their mirthful voices, Napoleon would steal away alone to his 'loved retreat. There, in the long and sunny afternoons, with a book in his hand, he would repose, in a recumbent posture, for hours, gazing. Upon the broad expanse of the Mediterranean spread out before him, and upon the blue sky, which overarched his head. Who can imagine the visions which in those hours arose before the expanding energies of that wonderful mind? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon the Little Classic Reprint written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon the Little According to the terms of the decree, I invite the Citizen President of the Republic to ascend the tribune, and to take the oath. The representatives who crowded the right lobby returned to their places and left the passage free. It was about four in the afternoon, it was growing dark, and the immense hall of the Assembly having become involved in gloom, the chandeliers were lowered from the ceiling, and the messengers placed lamps on the tribune. The President made a sign, the door on the right opened, and there was seen to enter the hall, and rapidly ascend the tribune, a man still young, attired in black, having on his breast the badge and riband of the Legion of Honour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon Bonaparte written by William C. Sprague and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon Bonaparte: A History Written for Boys IN the sunny Mediterranean, one hundred and six miles southeast of Nice on the coast of France, ninety-eight miles south of Genoa, where Christopher Columbus was born, and fifty-four miles west of Tuscany, lies a i'ocky island known as Corsica, the birthplace of Na poleon Bonaparte. The island is not much larger than the State of Connecticut, and nine tenths of it is uncultivated. Wild and f or bidding mountains traverse it from end to end, some of Whose peaks carry the eternal snows. Its lowlands are carpeted With luxuriant and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The History of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by John S. C. Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 of 2 It has been the endeavor of the author, during the progress of the work, not to write one line which, dying, he would wish to blot. In that solemn hour it will be a solace to him to reflect that he has done what he could to rescue one of the greatest and noblest of names from unmerited obloquy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Classic Reprint written by William Milligan Sloane and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte But the present was bad enough, and momentarily grew worse. The road was lined with charred ruins and devastated fields, and the waysides were dotted with groups of listless, desperate soldiers who fell out and sank on the ground as the straggling ranks of their comrades tramped on. Skirting the battle-field of Borodino, the marching battal ions looked askance on the ghastly heaps of unburied corpses; but the wounded survivors were dragged from field hospitals and other cav ernous Shelters to be carried onward with the departing army. They were a sight which in some cases turned melancholy into madness. In order to transport them the wagons were lightened by throwing the spoils Of Moscow into the pond at Semlino. On the thirtieth despatches of grave import reached the Emperor, informing him that Schwarzen berg had retreated behind the Bug, leaving an Open road from Brest for Tchitchagofi's veterans to attack the right flank of the columns flying from Moscow. Victor, learning Of Napoleon's straits, had left fifteen thousand men in Smolensk, and was advancing to join saint-cyr on the. Dwina in order to assure the safety of the main army from that Side. To him came the dismal news that Wittgenstein had resumed the offensive against saint-cyr, and that the line Of attack on the French left was as open from the north as was that on the other side from the south. Davout's rear-guard was steadily disintegrating under hardships and before the harassing attacks of the Russian riders under Platofi. Partizan warfare was assuming alarming dimensions. In a Single swoop two thousand French recruits under Baraguey d'hilliers had been made prisoners, and Similar events were growing all too fre quent. In consequence of these crushing discouragements the whole army was rearrayed. We must march as we did in Egypt, ran the order: the baggage in the middle, as densely surrounded as the road will permit with a half battalion in front, a half battalion behind, battal ions right and left, so that when we face we can fire in every direction. Ney's corps was then assigned to the place of danger in the rear - a place he kept with desperate gallantry until he earned the title brav est of the brave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol 1 of 4 Classic Reprint written by John S. Memes and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 of 4 The peculiar advantages of position, in regard to his present subject, so long enjoyed by M. de Bourrienne, from his official situation, his literary accomplishments and moral qualifications, have already obtained for these Memoirs the first rank of authenticity in contemporary history. In France, where they had for years been expected with anxiety, and where, since the Revolution, no work, connected with that period, or its consequent events, has created so great a sensation, the volumes of Bourrienne have, from the first, been accepted as the only trustworthy exhibition of the private life and political principles of Napoleon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life and Battles of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Helen W. Pierson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Battles of Napoleon Bonaparte: In Words of One Syllable He liked to hear tales of war, and his toys were of the kind that stirred his heart. He would leave bat, or ball, or kite, to set his toy troops in rank, and sweep them away with his toy gun. He would sit for hours, while he played that the mock foe fled from him, and their mock dead lay on the ground. Ma dame Bo na parte was quite poor. A kind old man, near kin to her, let them stay in the house where they lived, for they did not own it. They had food and clothes, but the boys knew what it was to want. There was no cash to spare in that house. When they asked. Their old friend for it he would say, I have land, vines, beasts and fowl, but I have no gold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol 1 of 2 written by William Hamilton Reid and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 of 2: Giving an Account of All His Engagements, From the Siege of Toulon to the Battle of Waterloo Charles bonaparte, the father of Napoleon, was a Corsican of a noble family, as well as his spouse, a woman of remarkable beauty and sound judgment. He was at first intended for the law, and had cultivated his mind by studies adapted to his fu ture profession. But, called upon by the danger of his country, he quitted the long robe for the sword, and distinguished himself under Paschal Paoli. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mr Bonaparte of Corsica written by John Kendrick Bangs and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon's father, Charles Bonaparte, was the honored progenitor of thirteen children, of whom the man who subsequently became the Emperor of the French, by some curious provision of fate, was the second. That the infant Napoleon should have followed rather than led the procession is so foreign to the nature of the man that many worthy persons unfamiliar with the true facts of history have believed that Joseph was a purely apocryphal infant, or, as some have suggested, merely an adopted child; but that Napoleon did upon this occasion content himself with second place is an incontrovertible fact. Nor is it entirely unaccountable. It is hardly to be supposed that a true military genius, such as Napoleon is universally conceded to have been, would plunge into the midst of a great battle without first having acquainted himself with the possibilities of the future. A reconnoitre of the field of action is the first duty of a successful commander; and hence it was that Napoleon, not wishing to rush wholly unprepared into the battle of life, assigned to his brother Joseph the arduous task of first entering into the world to see how the land lay. Joseph having found everything to his satisfaction, Napoleon made his appearance in the little island of Corsica, recently come under French domination the 15th day August, 1769. Had he been born two months earlier, we are told, he would have been an Italian. Had he been born a hundred years later, it is difficult to say what he would have been. As it was, he was born a Frenchman. It is not pleasant to contemplate what the man's future would have been had he been born an Italian, nor is it easy to picture that future with any confidence born of certainty. Since the days of Caesar, Italy had not produced any great military commander, and it is not likely that the powers would have changed their scheme, confirmed by sixteen centuries of observance, in Napoleon's behalf—a fact which Napoleon himself realized, for he often said in his latter days, with a shudder: "I hate to think how inglorious I should have become had I been born two months earlier and entered the world as an Italian. I should have been another Joseph—not that Joseph is not a good man, but he is not a great man....
Download or read book Life of Napoleon Bonaparte written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte: Emperor of the French; Containing Numerous Anecdotes of His Court and Times; With Illustrations A man more eminent than Napoleon Bona parte. The World has scarcely yet settled down in quietness, from the convulsive agita tions produced by his vast ambition and military enterprises. It is essential, therefore, that every person who has the least pretension to historical information, should make himself acquainted with all the important facts in the life of so prominent a Captain; and as it cannot be expected that the youthful reader can have the means or the disposition to study the voluminous works wherein the subject is elaborately treated, the American publisher hopes that he will render an accept able service in presenting this general outline, with the View of introducing the subject to the attention of juvenile readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Boy Life of Napoleon written by Eugenie Foa and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - On a certain August day, in the year 1776, two little girls were strolling hand in hand along the pleasant promenade that leads from the queer little town of Ajaccio out into the open country. The town of Ajaccio is on the western side of the beautiful island of Corsica, in the Mediterranean Sea. Back of it rise the great mountains, white with snowy tops; below it sparkles the Mediterranean, bluest of blue water. There are trees everywhere; there are flowers all about; the air is fragrant with the odor of fruit and foliage; and it was through this scented air, and amid these beautiful flowers, that these two little girls were wandering idly, picking here and there to add to their big bouquets, that August day so many years ago.
