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[Illustration: From the collection of W. C. Crane. Engraved by T.
Levasseur.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

Drawn by F. Gerard.]




               THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

                             BY

                   WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE
                     PH.D., L.H.D., LL.D.
        _Professor of History in Columbia University_


                    Revised and Enlarged
                       With Portraits


                         VOLUME III


[Illustration: Editor's arm.]

                          NEW YORK
                       THE CENTURY CO.
                            1916




              Copyright, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910
                             BY
                      THE CENTURY CO.

                 _Published, October, 1910_




CONTENTS


    CHAPTER                                                       Page

         I. War with Russia: Pultusk................................ 1

        II. Check to the Grand Army: Eylau......................... 12

       III. An Indecisive Victory: Friedland....................... 24

        IV. Napoleon and Alexander at Tilsit....................... 39

         V. The Treaty of Tilsit................................... 54

        VI. The Path of Napoleonic Empire.......................... 66

       VII. The New Feudalism...................................... 80

      VIII. The Empires of Land and Ocean.......................... 97

        IX. French Empire and European Nationality................ 