: The History of Cuba vol. 2 by Johnson Willis Fletcher - Cuba History; Cuba Economic conditions

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BOOK I

My birth--My name is disputed--Extracts from the official registers of Villers-Cotterets--Corbeil Club--My father's marriage certificate--My mother--My maternal grandfather--Louis-Philippe d'Orl?ans, father of Philippe-?galit?--Madame de Montesson--M. de Noailles and the Academy--A morganatic marriage

My father--His birth--The arms of the family--The serpents of Jamaica--The alligators of St. Domingo--My grandfather--A young man's adventure--A first duel--M. le duc de Richelieu acts as second for my father--My father enlists as a private soldier--He changes his name--Death of my grandfather--His death certificate

My father rejoins his regiment--His portrait--His strength--His skill--The Nile serpent--The regiment of the King and the regiment of the Queen--Early days of the Revolution--Declaration of Pilnitz--The camp at Maulde--The thirteen Tyrolean chasseurs--My father's name is mentioned in the order of the day--France under Providence--Voluntary enlistments--St.-Georges and Boyer--My father lieutenant-colonel--The camp of the Madeleine--The pistols of Lepage--My father General of Brigade in the Army of the North

My father is sent to join Kl?ber--He is nominated General-in-Chief in the Western Pyrenees--Bouchotte's letters--Instructions of the Convention--The Representatives of the People who sat at Bayonne--Their proclamation--In spite of this proclamation my father remains at Bayonne--Monsieur de l'Humanit?

My father is appointed General-in-Chief of the Army of the West--His report on the state of La Vend?e--My father is sent to the Army of the Alps as General-in-Chief--State of the army--Capture of Mont Valaisan and of the Little Saint-Bernard--Capture of Mont Cenis--My father is recalled to render an account of his conduct--What he had done--He is acquitted

The result of a sword-stroke across the head--St. Georges and the remounts--The quarrel he sought with my father--My father is transferred to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse--He hands in his resignation and returns to Villers-Cotterets--A retrospect over what had happened at home and abroad during the four years that had just elapsed

My father in the Army of Italy--He is received at Milan by Bonaparte and Jos?phine--Bonaparte's troubles in Italy--Scurvy--The campaign is resumed--Discouragement--Battle of Arcole

The despatch is sent to Bonaparte--Dermoncourt's reception--Berthier's open response--Military movements in consequence of the despatch--Correspondence between my father and Serrurier and Dallemagne--Battle of St.-Georges and La Favorite--Capture of Mantua--My father as a looker-on

My father's first breeze with Bonaparte--My father is sent to Mass?na's army corps--He shares Joubert's command in the Tyrol--Joubert--The campaign in the Tyrol

BOOK II

The bridge of Clausen--Dermoncourt's reports--Prisoners on parole--Lepage's pistols--Three generals-in-chief at the same table

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