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WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE PH.D., L.H.D., LL.D. _Professor of History in Columbia University_
Copyright, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910 BY THE CENTURY CO.
I. The Last Imperial Victory............................... 1
II. Politics and Strategy.................................. 11
III. The End of the Grand Army.............................. 23
IV. The Frankfort Proposals................................ 37
V. The Invasion of France................................. 47
VI. Napoleon's Supreme Effort.............................. 59
VII. The Great Captain at Bay............................... 71
VIII. The Struggles of Exhaustion............................ 84
IX. The Beginning of the End.............................. 101
X. The Fall of Paris..................................... 111
XI. Napoleon's First Abdication........................... 123
XII. The Emperor of Elba................................... 137
XIII. Napoleon the Liberator................................ 151
XIV. The Dynasties Implacable.............................. 164
XV. Ligny and Quatre Bras................................. 175
XVI. The Eve of Waterloo................................... 189
XVII. Waterloo.............................................. 199
XVIII. The Surrender......................................... 212
XIX. St. Helena............................................ 224
XX. Soldier, Statesman, Despot............................ 247
XXI. Napoleon and the United States........................ 268
XXII. Napoleon's Place in History........................... 285
Historical Sources.................................... 303
General Bibliography.................................. 307
Index................................................. 355
Napoleon in 1813................................................. 50
Napoleon, François Charles Joseph, Prince Imperial; King of Rome; Duke of Reichstadt............................... 98