The published correspondence of Napoleon, taken alone, testifies to the magnitude of the work accomplished by the extraordinary man who for twenty years filled the world. with the noise of his exploits. The first letter printed in The Correspondence, addressed by Buonaparte, Commandant of Artillery in the Army of the South, to the Committee of Public Safety, is dated 4th Brumaire, year II., or 25th October, 1793, and the last letter is that which was written on board the Bellerophon, on the 4th August, 1815. And between October, 1793, and August, 1815, Napoleon found time, in spite of his incessant campaigning, his daily receptions, his verbal instructions, his study of arduous questions, &c., to write or dictate even more than the 22,066 letters, despatches, orders of the day, &c. &c., contained in The Correspondence, which forms no less than twenty-eight volumes in octavo of closely printed matter.
ABERCROMBY, SIR RALPH, his suc-
cess in Holland, i. 241; at Alexan-
dria, i. 214; in Egypt, i. 265;
Napoleon on, i. 265
Abrial, citizen, minister of justice,
Napoleon's letters to, i. 368, 399
Aboukir, battle of, i. 242, 259, 334
Academy, French, dissolution of, i.
316, 317 n
Aix, Josephine at, i. 206; Napoleon at,
i. 269
Aix la Chapelle, Napoleon at, ii. 91, 92
Ajaccio, disturbance in, i. 20, 25, 26
Albuera, battle of, iii. 105
Aldini, Count, ii. 480
Alessandria, cathedral of, destroyed,
i. 406
Alexandria, Napoleon's orders from,
i. 259, 262, 263; capture of, i. 214;
English blockade, i. 343; occupy, ii. 6
Algiers, Dey of, Napoleon's letters to,
i. 398, 399; threatened by Napoleon,
Algesiras, battle of, i. 340
Alison's History of Europe, on the
retreat from Moscow, iii. 182
Allocution to the old guard, 1814, iii.
344
Almeida, fall of, iii. 101, 105
Alquier, M., Napoleon's instructions to,
at Rome, ii. 363
Alvinzi, General, at Pavia, i. 118;
attacks the French, i. 129; defeated
at Rivoli, i. 130
Amed Pasha, Napoleon's letter to, i.
235
Amiens, treaty of, i. 366, 380, 382, 385,
388; proclaimed in London, i. 382;
rupture of, ii. 1, 2, 6; causes of
rupture of, ii. 12, 13; Napoleon at,
ii. 19
Ancona occupied by the French, i. 378;
ii. 201; Napoleon at, i. 137
Andreossi, M. de, ambassador in Lon-
don, i. 383; ambassador in Austria,
ii. 300
Annual Register, quotations from, on
treaty of Amiens, i. 366; on the
arrest of English in France, ii. 2; on
English naval victory, 1804, ii. 101;
Lord Lake's march against Daolat
Rao, ii. 130; on Captain Wright, ii.
163; on the conscription, 1807, ii.
300
Anspach, Napoleon violates the neu-
trality of, ii. 110, 154, 161
Aosta, Duke of, accused of aiding the
English, i. 353 n
Aranjuez, revolution at, ii. 354
Archives, foreign, sent to Paris, iii. 55
Arcola, battle of, i. 119
Arrighi, General, Duc de Padone,
Napoleon's letter to, iii. 276
Arrighi, Canon, pastoral by, greeting
Napoleon at Elba, iii. 349, 350 n
Aspern, battle of, ii. 429, 454, 455
Asturias, Ferdinand, Prince of, Napo-
leon's letters to, ii. 380, 393: con-
spires with Napoleon against his
father the King of Spain, ii. 350-
353; his projected marriage with
Napoleon's niece, ii. 352, 353, 369;
Napoleon's perfidy to, ii. 375, 381,
385; Napoleon's orders for his arrest,
ii. 382; receives freedom on conclud-
ing a treaty with Napoleon, iii. 288;
his letters to Napoleon, iii. 287;
after battle of Tudela, ii. 421 n
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