. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. Six Fours forms a background. Standing on Napoleons is plainly to be seen that Toulon is here, and that the French have not forgotten thelesson taught by Napoleon. For to-day the entire shore is thehiding place of modern batteries for the protection of the greatnaval port of France. His first battle brought the little artilleryman the rank ofbrigadier general and an assignment to the Army of Italy,as the French force destined for an Italian campaign wascalled. As the youthful brigadier passed along the lovelyRiviera on his
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. Six Fours forms a background. Standing on Napoleons is plainly to be seen that Toulon is here, and that the French have not forgotten thelesson taught by Napoleon. For to-day the entire shore is thehiding place of modern batteries for the protection of the greatnaval port of France. His first battle brought the little artilleryman the rank ofbrigadier general and an assignment to the Army of Italy,as the French force destined for an Italian campaign wascalled. As the youthful brigadier passed along the lovelyRiviera on his various missions to and fro, he looked up thenarrow passes, the open gates in the great, high walls of theMaritime Alps, which, like huge breakwaters, rise almost sheerfrom the ivory shore of the Mediterranean. It was while peer-ing through those gateways to Italy that a plan of campaignfar greater than that of Toulon started in his mind. Just then there came another revolution in Paris. It wasRobespierres turn at the guillotine, and as his head fell in the. Ax Early Portrait of Xapoleox, by Bailly THE MAN ON HORSEBACK 35 sack, the new party in the government at once began to markout for the same fate all the chief associates of the fallenTerrorist. Napoleon quickly found himself in a cell and under ordersto report in Paris, whose other name was the guillotine in thosedays. Fortunately for the prisoner, the guillotine was wearyat last, and after eight days in confinement he was liberated,but only to meet troubles no less annoying. Ordered to join the infantry in the Army of the West, hewent to Paris to remonstrate against his transfer from theartillery. The orders were not changed, but he contrived togo over the head of the bureaucrat who had assigned him tothe infantry and he gained the attention of more powerfulmen in the government. The dream of the Orient, which was long to haunt him,came to him now and he induced the authorities to order himto Turkey for the purpose of tr
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