6CHAPTER VI Napoleon’s First Fight with the English (1793)
22CHAPTER XXII The Genesis of the Peninsular War (1808)
7CHAPTER VII Napoleon the Soldier of Fortune (1794–1796)
23CHAPTER XXIII Glory at Erfurt and Humiliation in Spain (1808–1809)
8CHAPTER VIII “The Spark of Great Ambition” (1796)
24CHAPTER XXIV The Austrian Campaign (1809)
9CHAPTER IX The Italian Campaign (1796–1797)
25CHAPTER XXV The Austrian Campaign—continued (1809)
10CHAPTER X The Expedition to Egypt (1798)
26CHAPTER XXVI The War in Poland and Tyrol (1809)
11CHAPTER XI From Cairo to Fréjus (1798–1799)
27CHAPTER XXVII A Broken Friendship and what it Brought (1810–1812)
12CHAPTER XII How Napoleon Seized the Reins of Government (1799)
28CHAPTER XXVIII The Russian Campaign (1812)
13CHAPTER XIII The Passage of the Alps (1799–1801)
29CHAPTER XXIX The Triumphal Entry into Moscow—and after (1812)
14CHAPTER XIV Blessings of Peace (1801–1803)
30CHAPTER XXX The March of Humiliation (1812)
15CHAPTER XV The Dawn of the Empire (1803–1804)
31CHAPTER XXXI The Beginning of the End—The Leipzig Campaign (1813)
16CHAPTER XVI The Threatened Invasion of England and its Sequel (1804–1805)
32CHAPTER XXXII The Conquest of the Conqueror (1814–1821)