Contains a history of the wars of the French Revolution, during the period 1792-1815.

Volume I --Military preparations -- Agitations in Paris -- Opening of the Campaign -- State of the armies -- All the principal States of Europe likely to become involved in the War -- Irruption into Holland -- Insurrection in Vendée -- Re-capture of Landrecies, Valenciennes, and Condé -- Melancholy state of France under the Reign of Terror -- Operations in the West Indies -- British history: opening of the new Parliament -- Consequences of the Irish Rebellion -- Campaign in Egypt: policy of Bonaparte -- Posture of public affairs at the commencement of 1801 -- Negociations: complaints of the French government against the countenance given in Great Britain to French emigrants, and against the abuse poured upon the First Consul by the newspaper press -- Situation of the principal states of Europe at the breaking out of the war -- Goréc taken by the French -- Naval Campaign of 1805: effects of the Declaration of War against Spain -- Volume II -- Foreign history: invasion of Naples by the French under Joseph Bonaparte -- Foreign history: Continental Campaigns of 1806-7 -- Expeditions: to the Dardanelles -- Campaign in the peninsula of Spain and Portugal -- Foreign history: military preparations of the House of Austria -- Spanish Campaigns: state of the hostile armies at the beginning of the year 1809 -- Domestic history: openings of the First Regency Parliament -- Campaigns in Spain and Portugal: state of the Peninsula at the commencement of the year 1811 -- Russian Campaign: Napoleon, impressed with the perilous situation of his army, proposes to open a negociation for peace -- Spanish Campaign: plan of operations -- Campaign in France: declaration of the Allied Powers previous to the invasion of France -- American war: naval and military force of the United States at the commencement of the war -- American war (concluded) Objects of the Campaign of 1814 -- The second reign of the Emperor Napoleon -- Belgic Campaign of 1815: Europe again in arms -- Sensation produced by the return of Napoleon to Paris--Surrenders to Captain Maitland on board the Bellerophon man of war--Resolution of the British government to send him to St. Helena--Deportation -- Retrospect of the epochs of the wars of the French Revolution from the rupture of the Treaty of Amiens to the conclusion of a general peace.