Joseph Bonaparte. John S. C. Abbott

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      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       ENGRAVINGS.

       CHAPTER I.

       Scenes in Early Life.

       1768-1793

       CHAPTER II.

       Diplomatic Labors.

       1793-1797

       CHAPTER III.

       JOSEPH THE PEACE-MAKER.

       1798-1802

       CHAPTER IV.

       JOSEPH KING OF NAPLES.

       1803-1807

       CHAPTER V.

       THE CROWN A BURDEN.

       1806-1807

       CHAPTER VI

       THE SPANISH PRINCES.

       1807-1808

       CHAPTER VII.

       JOSEPH KING OF SPAIN.

       1808

       CHAPTER VIII.

       THE SPANISH CAMPAIGN OF NAPOLEON.

       1808-1809

       CHAPTER IX.

       The War in Spain Continued.

       1809-1812

       CHAPTER X.

       THE EXPULSION FROM SPAIN.

       1812-1813

       CHAPTER XI.

       LIFE IN EXILE.

       1815-1832

       CHAPTER XII.

       LAST DAYS AND DEATH.

       1832-1844

       THE END.

PREFACE.

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      The writer trusts that he may be pardoned for relating the following characteristic anecdote of President Lincoln, as it so fully illustrates the object in view in writing these histories. In a conversation which the writer had with the President just before his death, Mr. Lincoln said:

      "I want to thank you and your brother for Abbotts' series of Histories. I have not education enough to appreciate the profound works of voluminous historians, and if I had, I have no time to read them. But your series of Histories gives me, in brief compass, just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have."

      It is for just this purpose that these Histories are written. Busy men, in this busy life, have now no time to wade through ponderous folios. And yet every one wishes to know the general character and achievements of the illustrious personages of past ages.

      A few years ago there was published in Paris a life of King Joseph, in ten royal octavo volumes of nearly five hundred pages each. It was entitled "Mémoires et Correspondance, Politique et Militaire, du Roi Joseph, Publiés, Annotés et Mis en Ordre par A. du Casse, Aide-de-camp de S. A. I. Le Prince Jerome Napoleon." These volumes contained nearly all the correspondence which passed between Joseph and his brother Napoleon from their childhood until after the battle of Waterloo. Every historical statement is substantiated by unequivocal documentary evidence.

      From this voluminous work, aided by other historical accounts of particular events, the author of this sketch has gathered all that would be of particular interest to the general reader at the present time. As all the facts contained in this narrative are substantiated by ample documentary proof, the writer can not doubt that this volume presents an accurate account of the momentous scenes which it describes, and that it gives the reader a correct idea of the social and political relations existing between those extraordinary СКАЧАТЬ