Excerpt from Anecdotes and Characteristics of Napoleon Bonaparte: Translated and Compiled by an American J tency's sake, he could not employ foreigners on his staff, as all his officers had served from the ranks and become gray ln his service. He now requested to be employed in the Commissariat Department, but met with a similar refusal. At last he applied to General Davoust praying for his intercession. 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.