William Milligan Sloane

William Milligan Sloane
William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928) was an American historian and educator known for his expertise in European history, particularly in the field of Napoleon Bonaparte. He authored "The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte," a widely regarded four-volume biography of the French emperor. Sloane was also instrumental in founding the American Historical Association and served as its president in 1911. Additionally, he held a long tenure as a professor at Princeton University, where he contributed significantly to the academic study of history.

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This life of Napoleon was first published in 1896 as a book: for the years 1895-96 it ran as a serial in the pages of the Century Magazine. Judging from the sales, it has been read by many tens if not hundreds of thousands of readers; and it has been extensively noticed in the critical journals of both worlds. Throughout these fourteen years the demand has been very large and steady, considering the... more...

The fine charter with which France had presumably closed the revolutionary epoch, in order to live for the first time under a constitutional government, was about to display its fatal weakness in the production of a deadlock. This possibility had been clearly foreseen by acute observers, since there was no provision for the control of one arm of the government by the other, and in any working system... more...

CHAPTER I. War With Russia: Pultusk. Poland and the Poles — The Seat of War — Change in the Character of Napoleon's Army — The Battle of Pultusk — Discontent in the Grand Army — Homesickness of the French — Napoleon's Generals — His Measures of Reorganization — Weakness of the Russians — The Ability of Bennigsen — Failure of the Russian Manœuvers — Napoleon in Warsaw.... more...