Show THE WORLDS GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE 13 to G bir f dodd mead 6 company napoleon bonaparte part 11 fon FLO OR the son ron ot of a Corg corrican ican lawya to plan a world empire nowadays ys would be sheer insanity hut but in napoleon Bona partes time and country almost an thine was possible to the men man who knew how to use his chances tavern waiters became field marshals servants rose to duties dukes for the brat time in frances history it was the man not his hl ancestry that counted bonaparte being the greatest grea clu la in france ranee rose highest eliest til lo in the mighty nil lity upheaval that followed the overthrow overthrew of old customs H having ws ai a i first con coa out ul set bet matters to rights at home he h drew word adalu tt all europe here toffie long time wasting campaigns and nd acres of red tope had markel every war bonaparte changed nil all oils lills whirlwind campaigns and nance dance of all outworn military traditions formed the keynote of tilt his warfare on may 13 1800 he hurried nn an briny army across the alps captured piedmont by a brilliant victory over the hie Aust austrians riAns ot at Mn rengo 3 me 14 find and dictated peace terms to austria other countries seared scared by the example followed suit and for the first time in ninny many years universal peace seemed established all over the civilized world meantime in france bonaparte toras ras forwarding forward lne his hl personal ambit ambitions lons to such good effect that when the project of crowning him emperor ot of the french was broached it was carried by a popular vote of to lie he sent bent for pope plus ilus VII to crown him film at paris amid imposing ceremonies december 2 1804 hut but nt at the last moment he snatched the imperial diadem from the popes hands and nd crowned himself he then placed the crown on the head of josephine his wife the following year he became king of italy as well and now came a change of if character so remarkable as aa to support the old rumor that bonaparte the general and napoleon the emperor were two different men from being shy lean and ellent napoleon grew assertive tat fat talkative the rigid temperate simplicity of early days gave way to court etiquette pomp and imperial splendor ills his court was brilliant and extravagant england resenting certain ot of frances annexations declared war and napoleon prepared to invade great britain but russia austria and sweden formed tin an alliance with england and the plan was changed napoleon with men crossed bavaria took vienna and met the combined austrian lio and russian armies at t austerlitz each of the three armies was commanded by nil ail emperor after a long and bloody battle napoleon defeated the allies with fearful ful loss he then thrashed prussia at jena and Auer stadt and captured bertin berlin ruse Rus dussias sias as army was marching to prussian sias aid but napoleon met and overwhelmed it at friedland june 14 and forced the czar to sue for peace rep ua he next conquered spain and portugal and extended ills conquests throughout the continent of europe he made his brother king of spain and his hii brother in law king of naples end and lavished similar royal honors on others of ills his family spain dissatisfied that a lowhorn lowborn low horn born corsican should rule it revolted england and portugal at allied themselves with willi the spaniards and the war of the peninsula penin alit began the english army being commanded by sir arthur wellesley afterward duke of wellington austria took this time to rise against napoleon tile the emperor hurried an army across the frontier and inflicted a crushing defeat on the au bout bost at bagram wagram july 6 ISK and dictated humiliating terms of pence to the beaten country nearly all the he world ws was now at tile the genius genaus feet yet he be was far from satisfied fled he raw paw that he held his sovereignty through sheer strength Aus action bad taught him han that the lite instant his hack back wax was turned tile the beaten nations would spring rt at him film like wild animals at their trainer tie he knew that even while kings and countries countr le cringed to jilin him they secretly desp despland des laed finkas him as an upstart only so long as is ho he could overawe foes by active aggressive gres sive power could he hope to retain lils ills mastery no he had no son to inherit ills his title moreover he now saw his borash mistake in having married a stupid worn wont an of the people lie he hod had long since outgrown hla his early adoration for the fickle josephine lie he calmly proceeded to divorce her and on oil march karch 11 1810 remarried lie be married the archduchess marle mahe louise daughter of the emperor of austria the tha proud austrian m nion on arii had flat no choice but to submit unit and to sell his daughter for tile the sike sake of blis big count rys welfare marle loii cured nothing for her imperial bridegroom end and in his later days dayi of nf adversity promptly de him they hall hail hiie lie son bon who while in his cradle was wai proclaimed kins king of home tills this son died of consumption it 0 11 at twenty allet the years 1810 1816 and 1811 marked the flood tide rt of prosperity ilia hit dominions extended from nil to lie he was procia lined ill ruler er switzerland 1 flolla of spain italy and aloof most of the german states russin Aus austria trist find and other nations were nt at his bis feet englund england alone litell lilt against jilin him never before or since lias has such tremendous authority to a one wua |