But chief when leafy Summer's raging heat Nor have a verse the wanderer's notice claim, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, "Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?" '--ISA.xiv.16. A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE. 1769. Aug. 15. Napoleon Bonaparte, son of the Town Clerk, Charles, born at Ajaccio, Corsica. He was sent at an early age to the Military School at Brienne, in France.Returned to Ajaccio in 1790. Easter Monday, 1792, he excited the people against the priests, and was driven from his native country, and went to Marseilles, -An Officer of Artillery at the siege of Toulon, and appointed General of Brigade. 1793. 1794. Oct. 4.-Commands the Conventional troops and defeats the Parisians. 1796. -Appointed to the command of the army of Italy. May 10.-Battle of Lodi. Aug. 3.-Battle of Castiglione. Nov. 16.-Battle of Arcola. 1797. Feb. 2.-Surrender of Mantua. Mar. 23.-Trieste surrenders. April 18.-Preliminaries with Austria signed at Leoben. May 16.-French take possession of Venice. 17.-Treaty of Campo Formo with Aus tria. 1798. May 20.-Bonaparte sails for Egypt. July 21.-Battle of Embabe, or of the lyramids. Oct. 24.-Insurrection at Cairo. 1799. May 21.-Siege of Acre raised. Aug. 23.-Sailed from Egypt for France. Nov. 9. Dissolves the Directoral Govern 10. ment. Declared First Consul. 1800. Feb. 15.-Peace with the Chouans. May 15.-Bonaparte crosses Mount St. Ber nard. June 16.-Battle of Marengo. -Preliminaries with Austria signed at Paris. Dec. 3.-Battle of Hohenlinden. 1800. Dec. 24.-Explosion of the Infernal Machine. Mar.27.-Definite Treaty with England, 1803. Mar. -Proposals made by Bonaparte to May 18.-English Declaration of War. July 1804. Feb. the Bourbon family, approving of Louis XVIII.'s refusal to abdicate. -Moreau arrested. Mar.20.-Duc D'Enghien shot. April 8.-Pichegru murdered in prison. 1805. Feb. --Writes a Pacific Letter to the King of England. Apr. 11.-Treaty of Petersburgh between England, Russia, Austria, and Sweden. May 26.-Bonaparte declared King of Italy. C 1805. Sept. 24.-Bonaparte heads his army against Austria. Oct. 20.-Mack's army surrenders at Ulm. 15.-Treaty of Vienna with Prussia. -Murder of Captain Wright in prison. 1806. Mar. 30-Joseph Bonaparte declared King of Naples. June 5.-Louis Bonaparte declared King of Holland. July 26.-Convocation of the Jews. Sept. 24.-Bonaparte marches against Prussia. 27.-Bonaparte enters Berlin. Nov. 19.-Berlin Decree. 1807. Feb. 8.-Battle of Eylau. May 2.-Massacre of the French at Madrid, by order of Murat. -Royal family of Spain kidnapped at Bayonne by Bonaparte. 1807. June 14.-Battle of Friedland. July 7-Treaty of Tilsit. Sept. -Entry of the French troops into |