The Bloody Reign of Napoleon
Eyewitness Memoirs, Strategy, and the Human Cost of Empire from Russia to WaterlooBy Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Downer Hazen, Carl Von Clausewitz, Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur, Frederic Shoberl, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, S. E. Winbolt, Charles Dalton, Marcelin Marbot, Adrien Bourgogne, Moyle Sherer, Robert Southey, William Lawrence, William Surtees, John Kincaid, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy, William Milligan Sloane
Length358h 31m
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The Bloody Reign of Napoleon assembles a capacious archive of Napoleonic war, empire, and memory, juxtaposing military analysis, diplomatic chronicle, memoir, biography, and battlefield testimony. Its range extends from strategic reflections on campaigns and command to intimate accounts of marching, privation, captivity, and the human cost of imperial ambition. Major episodes—including the Peninsular conflict, the Russian campaign, and Waterloo—emerge not as settled legends but as contested experiences, rendered through both retrospective history and immediate witness. The volume brings together Napoleon's own political and military presence with French officers, attendants, and chroniclers, alongside British soldiers, commentators, and later historians. These voices belong to the vast nineteenth-century literature through which the Napoleonic era was interpreted, memorialized, and mythologized. Their differing national loyalties, ranks, and temporal distances create a productive tension between official explanation, personal recollection, tactical judgment, and moral indictment, illuminating how modern Europe understood conquest and resistance. Ideal for students and general readers of military history, The Bloody Reign of Napoleon offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare perspectives within a single volume. Readers will find both a valuable introduction to the era's campaigns and an instructive dialogue about leadership, violence, memory, and historical narration. Its breadth rewards close reading, inviting audiences to test heroic legend against the granular evidence of war.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length358 hrs 31 mins
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Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Adventures with the Connaught Rangers, 1809-1814 (Annotated)
2The Bloody Reign of Napoleon
3Historical Works
4The History of Napoleonic Wars (Charles Downer Hazen)
5The First Wars (The Era of Directory)
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6The Consulate
7The Early Years of the Empire
8The Empire at Its Height
9The Decline and Fall of Napoleon
10The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 1)
11The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 2)
12The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 3)
13History of the Expedition to Russia (Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur)
14HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
15BOOK I.
16BOOK II.
17BOOK III.
18BOOK IV.
19BOOK V.
20BOOK VI.
21BOOK VII.
22HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
23BOOK VIII. (pt. 1)
24BOOK VIII. (pt. 2)
25BOOK IX.
26BOOK X.
27BOOK XI.
28BOOK XII.
29Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 1)
30Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Battle of the Nations, 1813 (Frederic Shoberl) (pt. 2)
31Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 1)
32Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 2)
33Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 3)
34England and Napoleon (1801-1815) (S. E. Winbolt)
35INTRODUCTION
36THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC (1801). Source.—Thomas Campbell: Historical Lyrics and Ballads
37VERSES BY CANNING AGAINST ADDINGTON (1803). Source.—Stanhope’s Life of Pitt, 1862.
38THE YOUNGER PITT (1806). Source.—Sir W. Scott.
39Mr. Perceval’s Answer.
40ODE WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BUONAPARTE (1814). Source.—Robert Southey: Poems.
41The Waterloo Roll Call (Charles Dalton)
42INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION.
43ABBREVIATIONS.
44THE WATERLOO ROLL CALL.
45STAFF.
46BRITISH AND HANOVERIAN ARMY AT WATERLOO,
47REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 1)
48REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 2)
49REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 3)
50REGIMENTAL LISTS. (pt. 4)
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