Series G
“Battles then lasted a few hours, campaigns a few days.”
—Bignon, On Friedland (vol. vi. 292).
Series G
(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 243-264.)
| LETTER | PAGE | |
| No. 1. | Princess of Baden | 244 |
| Hortense | 244 | |
| The Grand Duke | 244 | |
| Florence | 244 | |
| No. 2. | Bamberg | 244 |
| Eugène | 244 | |
| Her husband | 245 | |
| No. 3. | Erfurt | 245 |
| If she wants to see a battle | 245 | |
| No. 4. | I nearly captured him and the Queen | 246 |
| I have bivouacked | 246 | |
| No. 5. | Fatigues, bivouacs have made me fat | 246 |
| The great M. Napoleon | 247 | |
| No. 7. | Potsdam | 247 |
| No. 8. | You do nothing but cry | 247 |
| No. 9a. | Madame Tallien | 247 |
| No. 10. | The bad things I say about women | 248 |
| No. 11. | Lubeck | 250 |
| No. 13. | Madame L. | 250 |
| No. 17. | December 2nd | 250 |
| No. 18. | Jealousy | 250 |
| No. 19. | Desir de femme est un feu qui dévore | 251 |
| No. 23. | I am dependent on events | 251 |
| No. 26. | The fair ones of Great Poland | 251 |
| A wretched barn | 252 | |
| Such things become common property | 252 | |
| No. 27. | Warsaw, January 3rd | 252 |
| No. 28. | Be cheerful—gai | 253 |
| No. 29. | Roads unsafe and detestable | 253 |
| No. 35. | I hope that you are at Paris | 254 |
| T. | 254 | |
| No. 36. | Paris | 254 |
| No. 38. | Arensdorf | 254 |
| No. 39. | The Battle of Preussich-Eylau | 254 |
| No. 40. | Corbineau | 256 |
| Dahlmann | 256 | |
| No. 41. | Young Tascher | 256 |
| No. 42. | Napoleon’s Correspondence | 256 |
| No. 43. | I am still at Eylau | 257 |
| This country is covered with dead and wounded | 257 | |
| No. 50. | Osterode | 257 |
| It is not as good as the great city | 258 | |
| I have ordered what you wish for Malmaison | 258 | |
| No. 54. | Minerva | 259 |
| No. 55. | The first use of Vous | 259 |
| No. 56. | Dupuis | 260 |
| No. 58. | M. de T. | 260 |
| No. 60. | Marshal Bessières | 260 |
| No. 63. | Date | 260 |
| No. 67. | Sweet, pouting, and capricious | 260 |
| No. 68. | Madame —— | 261 |
| Measles | 261 | |
| No. 69. | I trust I may hear you have been rational | 261 |
| No. 71. | May 20th | 262 |
| No. 74. | I am vexed with Hortense | 262 |
| No. 78. | Friedland | 263 |
| No. 79. | Tilsit | 264 |
Letters of the Emperor Napoleon to the Empress Josephine During the Campaign Against Prussia and Russia, 1806-7
1806.
January 1st.—The Elector of Bavaria and the Duke of Wurtemberg created Kings by France.
January 23rd.—Death of William Pitt, aged 47.
February 15th.—Joseph Bonaparte enters Naples, and on
March 10th is declared King of the Two Sicilies.
April 1st.—Prussia seizes Hanover.
June 5th.—Louis Bonaparte made King of Holland.
July 6th.—Battle of Maida (Calabria. English defeat General Reynier. French loss 4000; English 500).
July 12th.—Napoleon forms Confederation of the Rhine, with himself as Chief and Protector.
July 18th.—Gaeta surrenders to Massena.
August 6th.—Francis II., Emperor of Germany, becomes Emperor of Austria as Francis I.
August 15th.—Russia refuses to ratify peace preliminaries signed by her ambassador at Paris on July 25th.
September 13th.—Death of Charles James Fox, aged 57.