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Excerpt from Napoleon and America: An Outline of the Relations of the United States to the Career and Downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte Mute his thoughts into deeds upon such a colos sal scale, and the United States could not avoid the influence of the scholar-soldier. France and America acted and reacted upon each other with dramatic force during the fifteen years between Marengo and Waterloo. While a mere segment of that circle of activities, which encompassed the civilized world for twenty years, is sighted in this American phase of the marvellous legend, yet it possesses historical interest in a much higher de gree than we have been accustomed to attribute. The intrinsic attraction of the subject must aid this meagre presentation to the students of Amer ica's relations to Napoleonic Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.