Excerpt from Warrior and Ruler: And the Military Supremacy of Revolutionary France

Notwithstanding these adverse in¿uences, the genuine sources of information respecting Napoleon have largely increased, and the world has, for a con siderable time, possessed the means of ascertaining to a very great extent, in writings emanating from himself, what this wonderful man was, and what is his proper place in history. The Commentaries and Correspondence of Napoleon have been published long ago, and these records of the author's experi ences and career form the best available elements for a study of his life. Yet here, too, an impartial enquirer is, in some measure, baf¿ed, the Cowmen taries, written at St. Helena, abound in mistakes of fact, and are not seldom one-sided and unfair, and there is reason to believe that large parts of the Car respondence, of more or less importance, have been withheld from the public. Still these writings are of inestimable value, they convey a vivid impression of Napoleon's nature and character, and this shortbiography of the hero of modern France is largely founded on, and derived from them.

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