| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | Napoleon the Boy | 15 |
| II. | The Schooldays of Napoleon | 21 |
| III. | Napoleon as Officer and Author | 29 |
| IV. | Napoleon and the Corsican Volunteers | 41 |
| V. | The Eve of the Reign of Terror | 47 |
| VI. | Napoleon’s First Fight with the English | 57 |
| VII. | Napoleon the Soldier of Fortune | 65 |
| VIII. | “The Spark of Great Ambition” | 74 |
| IX. | The Italian Campaign | 82 |
| X. | The Expedition to Egypt | 91 |
| XI. | From Cairo to Fréjus | 99 |
| XII. | How Napoleon Seized the Reins of Government | 106 |
| XIII. | The Passage of the Alps | 111 |
| XIV. | Blessings of Peace | 124 |
| XV. | The Dawn of the Empire | 131 |
| XVI. | The Threatened Invasion of England and its Sequel | 138 |
| XVII. | The War of the Third Coalition | 146 |
| XVIII. | The Prussian Campaign | 155 |
| XIX. | The Polish Campaign | 168 |
| XX. | Friedland and Tilsit | 174 |
| XXI. | Napoleon’s Commercial War with Great Britain | 181 |
| XXII. | The Genesis of the Peninsular War | 192 |
| XXIII. | Glory at Erfurt and Humiliation in Spain | 206 |
| XXIV. | The Austrian Campaign | 219 |
| XXV. | The Austrian Campaign—Continued | 233 |
| XXVI. | The War in Poland and Tyrol | 241 |
| XXVII. | A Broken Friendship and What it Brought | 253 |
| XXVIII. | The Russian Campaign | 265 |
| XXIX. | The Triumphal Entry into Moscow—and after | 276 |
| XXX. | The March of Humiliation | 284 |
| XXXI. | The Beginning of the End—The Leipzig Campaign | 291 |
| XXXII. | The Conquest of the Conqueror | 302 |
| Index | 315 |