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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001347125 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Napoleon developed what was perhaps the world's first "superpower," setting a pattern that would come to fruition in the twentieth century. |
 | | From descriptions of Bonaparte's rise through the years of the Second Coalition and the Grande Armee to the heights of victory and the depths of defeat at Waterloo, a fascinating portrait emerges of a man and his methods. |
 | | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797, Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Military leadership, France History, Military 1789-1815 |
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