Excerpt from The United States Literary Gazette, Vol. 3: October 1, 1825, to April 1, 1826 The first chapters describe the position of Napoleon with respect to the various powers of Europe, and disclose the different motives which, with more or less weight, induced him to take the great step of advancing with all his force up on Russia. Perhaps the most interesting part of this work is that which discovers how necessary this despot thought it to persuade his principal officers into his own Opinion, and shows by what arguments he endeavoured to effect this object. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.