Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769–1821)

Napoleon Bonaparte

Works

• Memoirs of Napoleon(Gutenberg)
• Tendresses impériales
• Napoleon's Addresses; selections from the Proclamations, Speeches and Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte (1897), editor Ida M. Tarbell

Personal letters

• Letter to the Pope, 1804.
• Letter to the King of England, January 2, 1805.
• Conversation with Decier Regarding the Marriage of Jerome Bonaparte, May 6, 1805.
• Letter to Jerome Bonaparte, May 6, 1805.
• Letters to Josephine [1]
  • Nice, le 10 germinal
  • Milan, le 29 floréal, 2 hours after midday
  • Roverbella, le 18 messidor
  • Malmaison, le 4 messidor, an XI
  • Brunn, le 28 frimaire, an XIV
• Letter to General Lapi, upon leaving Elba, February 26, 1815

Speeches

• Speech to his troops in Italy
• Second speech to his troops in Italy, May 15 1796
• Speech to the Directory, December 10 1797

First Italian Campaign

• Address to the Army at the Beginning of the Campaign, March, 1796.
• Proclamation to the Army, May, 1796.
• Letter to "The Directory," May 11, 1796.
• Letter to "The Directory," May 14, 1796.
• Proclamation to the Soldiers on Entering Milan, May 15, 1796.
• Proclamation to the Troops on Entering Brescia, May 28, 1796.
• Address to Soldiers During the Siege of Mantua, November 6, 1796.
• Address to the Troops on the Conclusion of the First Italian Campaign, March, 1797.
• Address to the Genoese, 1797.
• Extract from a Letter to the Directory, April, 1797.
• Address to Soldiers after the Signing of the Treaty of Campo Formio, October, 1797.
• Proclamation to the Cisalpine Republic, November 17, 1797.
• Proclamation on Leaving the Troops at Rastadt, November, 1797.
• Address to the Citizens after the Signing of the Treaty of Campo Formio, December 10, 1797.

Egyptian Campaign

• Proclamation to the Troops on Entering Toulon, May 9, 1798.
• Address to the Military Commissioners, May 16, 1798.
• Proclamation to the Troops on Embarking for Egypt, June, 1798.
• Proclamation to the Egyptians, July, 1798.
• Letter to "The Directory," July 24, 1798.
• Order Respecting the Government of Egypt, July 27, 1798.
• Speech on the Egyptian Campaign, 1798
• Letter to Tippoo Saib, January 25, 1799.
• Proclamation to the Army on the Abandoning of the Siege of Acre, May, 1799.
• Proclamation to the Army on His Departure for France, August, 1799.
• Proclamation to the French People, November 10, 1799.
• Proclamation to the Army of the East, November, 1799.
• Army of the East, General Orders, July 1799
• Army of the East, General Orders II, August 1, 1799

Second Italian Campaign

• Proclamation to the French before the Second Italian Campaign.
• Proclamation to the Soldiers before the Battle of Marengo, June, 1800.
• Letter to the Emperor of Austria, on the Field of Marengo, June, 1800.

Austerlitz Campaign

• Address to the Senate, 1805.
• Proclamation to the Troops on the Commencement of the War of the Third Coalition, September, 1805.
• Address to the Austrians, after the Fall of Ulm, October, 1805.
• Address to the Troops after the War of the Third Coalition, October, 1805.
• Proclamation to the Soldiers before the Battle of Austerlitz, December 1, 1805.
• Proclamation after the Battle of Austerlitz, December 3, 1805.
• Address to the Soldiers on the Signing of Peace with Austria, December 26, 1805.
• Speech on the Anniversary of Austerlitz, 1806

War of the Fourth Coalition

• To the Legislative Body before the Battle of Jena, October, 1806.
• Address to the Captive Officers after the Battle of Jena, October 15, 1806.
• Proclamation to the Soldiers before Entering Warsaw, January 1, 1807.
• To the King of Prussia, Entreating Peace after the Battle of Eylau, February, 1807.
• Address to the Army on Its Return to Winter Quarters on the Vistula, 1807.
• Proclamation to the Soldiers after the Battle of Friedland, June 24, 1807.

Peninsular War

• Proclamation to the Spaniards on the Abdication of Charles IV., June 2, 1808.
• Address to the Legislative Body before Leaving Paris for the Spanish Campaign, 1808.
• Letter to the Emperor of Austria, October, 1808.
• Proclamation to the Soldiers during the March for Spain, 1808.
• Summons to M. de Morla to Surrender Madrid, December 3, 1808.
• Proclamation to the Spanish People, December, 1808.

War of the Fifth Coalition

• Proclamation to the Soldiers before the Battle of Eckmuhl, April, 1809.
• Proclamation to the Troops at Ratisbon, April, 1809.
• Address to the Troops on Entering Vienna, May, 1809.
• Proclamation to the Hungarians, 1809.

Russian Campaign

• Address to the Troops on the Beginning of the Russian Campaign, May, 1812.
• Address to the Troops before the Battle of Borodino, September 7, 1812.
• Letter to Alexander I., Emperor of Russia, September 20, 1812.

Hundred Days (1815)

• Proclamation to the French People on His Return from Elba, March 5, 1815.
• Napoleon's Proclamation to the Army on His Return from Elba, March 5, 1815.
• Napoleon Bonaparte to the monarchs of Europe, 4 April 1815
• Proclamation on the Anniversary of the Battles of Marengo and Friedland, June 14, 1815.
• Proclamation to the Belgians, June 17, 1815.
• Napoleon's Proclamation to the French People on His Second Abdication, June 22, 1815.
• Bonaparte's Protest, Written on Board the Bellerophon, August 4, 1815.
• Speech upon returning from exile at Elba, 1815

Other

• Statement condemning the Execution of Emigrants, May 16, 1798
• Order to Seize all English in France, Announced in the Moniteur, May, 1803.
• Address to the Troops on Presenting the Colors, December 3, 1804.
• Proclamation to the Soldiers, February, 1806.
• Address to the Senate on Annexation of the Cisalpine Republic, 1806.
• Letter to Champagny, November 15, 1807.
• Letter to the American Minister, Armstrong, 1809.
• Discourse at the Opening of the Legislative Body, Feb. 14, 1813.
• Address to the Legislative Body, December, 1813.
• Address to the Guard, April 2, 1814.
• Speech of Abdication, April 2, 1814.
• Farewell to the Old Guard, April 20, 1814.
• Speech following his abdication, to his soldiers at Fontainebleau, April 20, 1814

Works about Napoleon

• Napoleon, by T. P. O'Connor (1896)
• "Napoleon I.," by John Holland Rose in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Napoleon I (Bonaparte)," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Napoleon; Man of the World", 1850 by Ralph Waldo Emerson, as part of Representative Men
• "The Death of Napoleon", by Isaac McLellan
• Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte, satirical piece denying Napoleon's existence
• Napoleon's March on Paris as reported by newspaper headlines, 1831

Further reading

• History of the United States 1801-09 (1889-90) by Henry Adams recounts the circumstances surrounding the Louisiana Purchase and Napoleon's influence on the United States afterwards; see table of contents for links to vol. 1: ch. 13-17; vol. 2: ch. 1-3, 12, 16; vol. 3: ch. 16; vol. 4, ch. 5.