Excerpt from History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon, Vol. 3 of 12 Delay of the Descent on England - Causes and Advantages of that Delay - Redoubled Care in the Preparations - Financial Measures -budgets for the Years XI., XII., and XIII. - Creation of Indirect Taxes - Old Theory of a Tax solely on Land - Napoleon refutes that Theory, and causes the adoption of a Tax upon Articles of Con sumption - Original Organisation of the Administration of Consoli dated Taxes - Spain pays its Subsidy in Bills ...
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Excerpt from History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon, Vol. 3 of 12 Delay of the Descent on England - Causes and Advantages of that Delay - Redoubled Care in the Preparations - Financial Measures -budgets for the Years XI., XII., and XIII. - Creation of Indirect Taxes - Old Theory of a Tax solely on Land - Napoleon refutes that Theory, and causes the adoption of a Tax upon Articles of Con sumption - Original Organisation of the Administration of Consoli dated Taxes - Spain pays its Subsidy in Bills at long Dates - An Association of Capitalists offers to Discount them - First Operations of the Company called The Associated Merchants - all the disposable Resources devoted to the Squadrons of Brest, Rochefort, and Toulon - Napoleon plans the Arrival of a French Fleet in the Channel in order to render the Passage of_the Flotilla secure - First Combina tion on which he determines - Admiral latouche-treville entrusted with the Execution of that Combination - That Admiral was to run out of Toulon, deceive the English by changing his Course, and make his Way to the Channel after being joined by the Rochefort Squadron on the Passage - The Descent projected for July or August, previous to the Coronation - the Ministers of the Courts at Peace with France present their Credentials to Napoleon - The Austrian Ambassador alone delays to do so - Departure of Napoleon for Boulogne - General Inspection of the Flotilla Vessel by Vessel The Dutch Flotilla - Imposing Ceremonv on the Sea-coast, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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