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| Title | The Life of Napoleon I: Including New Materials from the British Official Records, Volume 1 The Life of Napoleon I: Including New Materials from the British Official Records, John Holland Rose |
| Author | John Holland Rose |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1901 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 17, 2006 |
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