The demand for this work so far exceeded my expectations that I was unable to make any considerable changes in the second edition, issued in March, 1902; and circumstances again make it impossible for me to give the work that thorough recension which I should desire.

I have, however, carefully considered the suggestions offered by critics, and have adopted them in some cases.

Professor Fournier of Vienna has most kindly furnished me with details which seem to relegate to the domain of legend the famous ice catastrophe at Austerlitz; and I have added a note to this effect on p.

50 of vol.ii.On the other hand, I may justly claim that the publication of Count Balmain's reports relating to St.Helena has served to corroborate, in all important details, my account of Napoleon's captivity.
It only remains to add that I much regret the omission of Mr.Oman's name from II.

12-13 of page viii of the Preface, an omission rendered all the more conspicuous by the appearance of the first volume of his "History of the Peninsular War" in the spring of this year.
J.H.R.
_October, 1902._ Notes have been added at the end of ch.v., vol.i.; chs.