Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812. Emperor of the French Napoleon I

defeats Kray at Hochstedt, and occupies Ulm.

      June 23rd.—Genoa re-entered by the French.

      June 26th.—Bonaparte leaves Massena in command of the Army of Reserve, now united with the Army of Italy.

      July 3rd.—The First Consul is back in Paris unexpectedly—not wishing triumphal arches or such-like "colifichets" In spite of which the plaudits he receives are very dear to him, "sweet as the voice of Josephine."

      September 5th.—Vaubois surrenders Malta to the English, after two years' blockade.

      September 15th.—Armistice between France and Austria in Germany.

      September 30th.—Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between France and U.S.—agreed that the flag covers the goods.

      October 3rd.—To facilitate peace King George renounces his title of King of France.

      November 12th.—Rupture of Armistice between France and Austria.

      December 3rd.—Moreau wins the battle of Hohenlinden (Austrian loss, 16,000 men, 80 guns; French 3000).

      December 20th.—Moreau occupies Lintz (100 miles from Vienna).

      December 24th.—Royalist conspirators fail to kill Bonaparte with an infernal machine.

      December 25th.—Armistice at Steyer between Moreau and Archduke Charles (sent for by the Austrians a fortnight before as their last hope).

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      "The peace of Amiens had always been regarded from the side of England as an armed truce: on the side of Napoleon it had a very different character. … A careful reader must admit that we were guilty of a breach of faith in not surrendering Malta. The promise of its surrender was the principal article of the treaty."

      England and Napoleon in 1803.

      (Edited for the R. Hist. S. by Oscar Browning, 1887.)

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      (For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 225-231.)

LETTER		PAGE
	Date	225
No. 1.	The blister	225
	Some plants	225
	If the weather is as bad	226
	Malmaison, without you	228
No. 2.	The fat Eugène	228
No. 3.	Your letter has come	229
	Injured whilst shooting a boar	229
	"The Barber of Seville"	229
No. 4.	The Sèvres Manufactory	230
No. 5.	Your lover, who is tired of being alone	230
	General Ney	231

      JOSEPHINE'S TWO VISITS TO PLOMBIÈRES,

      1801 AND 1802.

      Events of 1801.