BY EDWARD FOORD AUTHOR OF “THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE” ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY-TWO PORTRAITS AND HISTORICAL PAINTINGS AND SEVERAL MAPS AND PLANS LONDON: HUTCHINSON AND CO. PATERNOSTER ROW 1914 PREFACE During recent years the history of most of Napoleon’s great campaigns has been given to the world, with the notable exception of that of the catastrophic Russian expedition of 1812. Apart from compilations, I have met only one original work on the subject, in the English language, during the ten years th