The War of Wars by Harvey, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Maps Introduction Part One: France in Tumult 1789–93

1 The Collapse of the Ancien Regime 2 The Tennis Court Revolution 3 To Kill a King 4 The Republic Goes to War 5 The Latin Adventurer 6 The Terror 7 The Boy from Ajaccio 8 Angry Young Officer 9 The Corsican 10 Toulon

Part Two: Britain Asleep 1789–95

11 The Appeasers 12 The Boy-Statesman 13 Progress and Repression 14 The Russian Ogre 15 The Approach of War 16 The Phoney War 17 Dunkirk 18 The Grand Old Duke of York 19 The Spice Islands

Part Three: Conqueror of Italy

20 The Outsider 21 Italian Whirlwind 22 King of North Italy 23 The Coming Man

Part Four: Hearts of Oak

24 ‘Tis To Glory We Steer’ 25 The Floating World 26 The Glorious First of June 27 The Irish Flank 28 Cape St Vincent 29 Mutiny 30 The Battle of Camperdown

Part Five: The Invasion of Egypt

31 The Lure of the Sphinx 32 Strange Young Man 33 The Action Hero 34 Battle of the Pyramids 35 Battle of the Nile 36 The Upper Nile 37 Into the Holy Land 38 The Siege of Acre

Part Six: The Short Peace

39 Coup d’état 40 Marengo 41 Copenhagen 42 Peace in Our Time 43 The Consul’s Peace 44 The Emperor’s War

Part Seven: Sailor Superstar

45 Britain Under Siege 46 To the West Indies 47 Trafalgar 48 Death of a Statesman

Part Eight: King of Kings

49 The War Machine 50 Austerlitz 51 The Grenville Interlude 52 The Prussian Campaign 53 The Treaty of Tilsit 54 Economic War 55 The Sea Wolf 56 The Intelligence War 57 Peninsular Uprising 58 Moore’s Army

Part Nine: Britain Alone

59 Arthur Wellesley 60 Corunna 61 Aix Roads 62 The Austrians Strike Back 63 Duel of the Titans 64 Ruler of All He Surveyed

Part Ten: The Peninsular War

65 Oporto 66 Talavera 67 The Lines of Torres Vedras 68 Coimbra 69 Into Spain 70 Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz 71 Salamanca 72 Nemesis in Madrid 73 The Kill: Vitoria 74 Into France

Part Eleven: The Invasion of Russia

75 The Grande Armée 76 Vitebsk 77 Smolensk and Borodino 78 Moscow Burns 79 General Winter 80 Ney’s Escape 81 Napoleon’s Flight to Paris 82 The Fightback

Part Twelve: Fight to the Death

83 On the Offensive 84 The Battle of the Nations 85 The Invasion of France 86 The Great Chase 87 Louis XVIII 88 Return of the Bogeyman 89 While the Duke Danced 90 Ligny and Quatre Bras 91 Waterloo: the British Buckle 92 The British Attack 93 Aftermath 94 Napoleon’s Legacy

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