Excerpt from Confidential Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 of 2: With His Brother Joseph; Sometime King of Spain
These volumes contain a translation of all the Letters and Orders of Napoleon published in the Memoirs of King Joseph.
I have added to them a few letters of Napoleon taken from other sources, and a few, not written by Napoleon, which appeared to me to deserve insertion, either for their intrinsic interest, or as explanatory of his. I should have inserted many more if I had not been restrained by the expediency of keeping the English publication within moderate limits.
Napoleon's letters contain, of course, some uninteresting details. I have not, however, ventured to curtail them. It appears to me that the reader must wish to see at full length all that came from such a man; and I feel that it is only by studying the details of his orders that their wonderful fullness, minuteness, and precision can be estimated.
In many cases I have left untranslated technical terms for which we have no equivalents. The military and the political hierarchy of France differ much from our own; and where there was no corresponding English expression, I preferred the French term to a tedious circumlocution. Sometimes, also, I have been forced to reproduce rather the spirit than the words of my original.
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