BONAPARTE'S CONQUERORS

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BONAPARTE'S CONQUERORS
Richard Howard

Napoleon Bonaparte returns from Egypt in the autumn of 1799 determined to restore order to the mother country. As the Bourbon palaces spread corruption through the ruling Directory and bands of rebels terrorise towns and villages, the ideals of the ten-year-old Revolution seem no closer to becoming a reality for the ordinary people of France.

Recalled to Paris for the first time in four years to buttress their commander's political ambitions, Alain Lausard and his heroic cavalry unit look on as Bonaparte stages the coup d'etat that dissolves the existing regime. When the Corsican is appointed First Consul of the Republic, and his unit's stay in barracks becomes more prolonged, Lausard senses change in the air. With Bonaparte under pressure to make peace with the enemies of France, Lausard's dragoons are reduced to flushing out conspirators from the Paris gutters.

Bonaparte, however, heeds to no man. When he assembles his massive field army in the first spring of the new century, and prepares to reclaim the territory lost in Italy, Lausard is relieved his unit is involved. He owes his freedom to Bonaparte — and only through war can he contain the guilt he still feels for fleeing his doomed aristocratic family during The Terror. But as the French cavalry, infantry and artillery emerge through the treacherous St. Bernard Pass across the Alps to meet the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo, Lausard's men face their most daunting challenge yet ...