Series F
Campaign of Austerlitz, 1805
“To convey an idea of the brilliant campaign of 1805... I should, like the almanack-makers, be obliged to note down a victory for every day.”—Bourrienne, vol. ii. 323.
“Si jamais correspondence de mari à femme a été intime et fréquente, si jamais continuité et permanence de tendresse a été marquée, c’est bien dans ces lettres écrites, chaque jour presque, par Napoléon à sa femme durant la campagne de l’an XIV.”—F. Masson, Joséphine, Impératrice et Reine, 1899, p. 427.
Series F
(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 237-243.)
| LETTER | PAGE | |
| No. 1. | To Josephine | 237 |
| Strasburg | 237 | |
| Stuttgard | 237 | |
| I am well placed | 237 | |
| No. 2. | Louisburg | 238 |
| In a few days | 238 | |
| A new bride | 238 | |
| Electress | 238 | |
| No. 3. | I have assisted at a marriage | 238 |
| No. 5. | The abbey of Elchingen | 238 |
| No. 6. | Spent the whole of to-day indoors | 238 |
| Vicenza | 238 | |
| No. 7. | Elchingen | 239 |
| Such a catastrophe | 239 | |
| No. 9. | Munich | 239 |
| Lemarois | 239 | |
| I was grieved | 239 | |
| Amuse yourself | 239 | |
| Talleyrand has come | 240 | |
| No. 10. | We are always in forests | 240 |
| My enemies | 240 | |
| No. 11. | Lintz | 240 |
| No. 12. | Schoenbrunn | 241 |
| No. 13. | They owe everything to you | 241 |
| No. 14. | Austerlitz | 241 |
| December 2nd | 241 | |
| No. 17. | A long time since I had news of you | 241 |
| No. 19. | I await events | 242 |
| I, for my part, am sufficiently busy | 242 |
Letters of the Emperor Napoleon to the Empress Josephine, During the Austerlitz Campaign, 1805
Events of 1805.
March 13th.—Napoleon proclaimed King of Italy.
May 26th.—Crowned at Milan.
June 8th.—Prince Eugène named Viceroy of Italy.
June 23rd.—Lucca made a principality, and given to Elisa Bonaparte.
July 22nd.—Naval battle between Villeneuve and Sir Robert Calder, which saves England from invasion.
August 16th.—Napoleon breaks up camp of Boulogne.
September 8th.—Third Continental Coalition (Russia, Austria, and England against France). Austrians cross the Inn, and invade Bavaria.
September 21st.—Treaty of Paris between France and Naples, which engages to take no part in the war.
September 23rd.—Moniteur announces invasion of Bavaria by Austria.
September 24th.—Napoleon leaves Paris.
September 27th.—Joins at Strasburg his Grand Army(160,000 strong).
October 1st.—Arrives at Ettlingen.
October 2nd.—Arrives at Louisbourg. Hostilities commence.