On the great Russian campaign of 1812, with crisis after crisis at hand, he rarely rose to the occasion. After that debacle compatriots noticed a loss of the old flair. Some historians have suggested a physical deterioration, but others note that an impaired Napoleon was still a brilliant ...
He became involved in the affairs of the House of Coulon, which failed, as will be seen in the notes, at the time of his disgrace; and in October 1802 he was called on to hand over his office to Meneval, who retained it till invalided after the Russian campaign. As has been said...
Napoleon waited until Snowball had done all the hard work and completed the plans for machinery -that was to increase the farms production- before Napoleon [pardon the pun] 'released the hounds' and exiled Snowball. Napoleon then began a campaign of lies and propaganda against Snowball, marking...
Napoleon did receive them, according to the following authorities: Gourgaud, Baron:St Helena Journal… 1815-18 (London, 1932); Young, Norwood:Napoleon in Exile, 1815-21 (2 v., London, 1915); Balmani, Count:Napoleon in Captivity: the Reports of Count Balmani, Russian Commissioner… 1816-2...
The next day, in an engagement with the Russian rear guard, Marshal Duroc, one of Napoleon’s warmest and oldest friends, was killed. It was the second marshal lost since the campaign began, Bessières having been killed at Lützen. The French obtained Breslau on June 1st, and three days...