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Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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08, in 1807. So far was this premature drafting pushed,that the armies were said to be made up of boy soldiers,weak, unformed youths, fresh from school, who wilted in asun like that of Spain, and dropped out in the march. At the rate at which men had been killed, however, therewas no other way of keeping up the army. Between 1804and 1811 one million seven hundred thousand men hadperished in battle. What wonder that now the boys ofFrance were pressed into service! At the same time thecountry was overrun with the lame, the blind, the broken-down, who had come back from war to live on their friendsor on charity. It was not only the funeral crape on almostevery door which made Frenchmen hate the conscription, itwas the crippled men whom they met at every corner. While within, the people fretted over the religious dis-turbances and the abuses of the conscription, without, thecontinental blockade was causing serious trouble betweenNapoleon and the kings he ruled. In spite of all his efforts
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THE KING OF ROME. Engraved by Desnoyers, after Gerard. His Majesty the King of Rome.Dedicated to her Majesty Imperial and Royal, Marie Louise. 232 TROUBLE WITH THE POPE 233 English merchandise penetrated everywhere. The fair atRotterdam in 1807 was filled with English goods. Theypassed into Italy under false seals. They came into Franceon pretence that they were for the empress. Napoleon re-monstrated and threatened, but he could not check thetraffic. The most serious trouble caused by this violationof the Berlin Decree was with Louis, King of Holland.In 1808 Napoleon complained to his brother that more thanone hundred ships passed between his kingdom and Englandevery month, and a year later he wrote in desperation, Holland is an English province. The relations of the brothers grew more and more bitter.Napoleon resented the half support Louis gave him, and asa punishment he took away his provinces, filled his fortswith French troops, threatened him with war if he did notbreak up the t

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