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| List of Maps | |
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| A Note on the Use of Names | |
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| Prologue: The Bridge at Arcola | |
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| The Outsider, 1769-1792 | |
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| The Pleasure of Recognition Imaginary Landscapes | |
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| Carlo and Paoli | |
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| 'A Violent Enthusiasm for Liberty' | |
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| The Choice | |
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| A 'Vigorous and Rude' Education | |
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| 'You Will Be My Avenger' | |
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| 'A Sombre and Cantankerous Youth' | |
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| Death of the Father | |
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| A Corsican in France, a Frenchman in Corsica | |
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| Corsica in Revolution | |
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| An Island in Turmoil | |
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| Working towards the Revolution | |
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| The Return of the Babbo | |
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| Denunciations | |
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| Ambition Awakened | |
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| The Republican | |
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| 'I Wanted You to Be Free' | |
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| The Easter Sunday Murders | |
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| Buonaparte, Paris and the Revolution | |
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| The Revolutionary, 1792-1796 | |
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| Disillusion | |
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| Increasing Tensions | |
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| The Expedition to Sardinia | |
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| The Rupture | |
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| 'Perpetual Infamy' | |
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| 'It Is Better to Eat Than Be Eaten' | |
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| The Jacobin | |
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| Refugees | |
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| The Situation in the Midi | |
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| The Siege of Toulon | |
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| 'Ville Infame' | |
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| Italy - the First Plans | |
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| Shifting Political Sands | |
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| Arrest | |
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| 'My Tender Eug�nie' | |
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| Paris: The Decisive Months | |
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| The Political Appointee | |
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| General Vend�miaire | |
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| 'Seizing the Moon with His Teeth' | |
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| 'A Proud Cajoler' | |
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| The Conquering Hero, 1796-1798 | |
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| Innovation | |
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| First Impressions | |
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| An Army of Brigands | |
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| Defeating Piedmont | |
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| 'The Moral Force of Victory' | |
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| Conquest and Pillage | |
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| The Entry into Milan | |
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| 'I Thought Only of You' | |
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| The Price of Liberty | |
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| Lombardy in Revolt | |
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| Liberating Italian Art | |
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| 'My Life is a Perpetual Nightmare' | |
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| Castiglione | |
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| Artists and Soldiers, Politics and Love | |
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| Rebirth - Arcola | |
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| Exploiting Victory | |
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| Love and Self-Pity | |
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| Breaking Free | |
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| Rivoli | |
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| The Apprenticeship of Power | |
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| Invading the Papal States | |
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| 'Turn Their Thoughts towards the Idea of Liberty' | |
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| 'Has the Rhine Been Crossed?' | |
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| The Liberator of Italy | |
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| The Veronese Easter | |
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| The Court at Mombello | |
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| Bonaparte the 'Italique' | |
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| Defending 'Liberty and its Friends' | |
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| Entering the Political Fray: The Coup of Fructidor | |
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| 'Drunk with Happiness' | |
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| 'A Pure and Great Giant of Glory' | |
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| The Civilizing Hero, 1798-1799 | |
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| A Grandiose Exile | |
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| The Decision | |
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| The Philosopher General | |
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| Moments of Doubt | |
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| Confronting Egypt | |
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| Toulon | |
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| The Crossing | |
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| Malta | |
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| 'Like Fish on the Plains of Saint-Denis' | |
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| Sand, Melancholy and Suicide | |
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| Conciliation and Terror: Governing Egypt | |
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| Tearing Away the Veil | |
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| Adapting | |
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| Disaffection | |
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| Distractions | |
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| The Plague | |
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| Repression | |
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| Prisoner of his Conquest | |
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| The Battle of the Nile | |
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| The Revolt of Cairo | |
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| The Decision to Invade Syria | |
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| The Limits of Imagination | |
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| 'All Human Effort against Me is Useless' | |
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| The Massacre at Jaffa | |
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| Fear and Contagion | |
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| The Siege of St John of Acre | |
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| The End of the Dream | |
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| Retreat and Revenge | |
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| Aboukir: Defeat Atoned | |
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| The Flight from Egypt | |
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| Seizing Power, 1799 | |
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| The Return of the Saviour | |
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| Like an 'Electric Shock' | |
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| 'The Man Who Would Save France' | |
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| France on the Eve of the Coup | |
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| The 'Sword' | |
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| Negotiating a Role | |
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| The Plot | |
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| The Coup as Farce | |
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| The First Act | |
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| The Second Act | |
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| Denouement | |
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| The Final Scene | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| In Search of the Saviour | |
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| In Search of Bonaparte | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |