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• A residence in France, during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795: described in a series of letters from an English lady: with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners, John Gifford, 1798
• The bloody buoy, thrown out as a warning to the political pilots of all nations, or, A faithful relation of a multitude of acts of horrid barbarity such as the eye never witnessed, the tongue expressed or the imagination conceived until the commencement of the French Revolution, Peter Porcupine, 1798

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• The French revolution: a history by Thomas Carlyle, 18—
• England's battles by sea and land: from the commencement of the great French revolution to the present time with a retrospective view of the celebrated epochs of the British military history; including our Indian campaigns and the present expedition against Russian aggression in the East by Lieut.-Colonel Williams, 18—
• On the state of Europe before and after the French revolution by Frederick Gentz,1803
• A sketch of the present state of France, 1805
• Memoirs of the military and political life of Napoleon Bonaparte: from his origin, to his death on the rock of St. Helena, B.E. O'Meara, 1822
• Memoirs of General Count Rapp: first aide-de-camp to Napoleon, Jean Rapp, 1823
• Soliloquy of Napoleon Bonaparte in his exile at St. Helena written and translated by P. Menard, 1825
• Hall's voyages, Basil Hall, 1826-27
• The life of Gouverneur Morris: with selections from his correspondence and miscellaneous papers; detailing events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the political history of the United States by Jared Sparks, 1832
• The history of the French revolution, M.A. Thiers, 1838
• History of Europe from the commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Archibald Alison, 1845
• History of the law of nations in Europe and America: from the earliest times to the Treaty of Washington, 1842, Henry Wheaton, 1845
• History of the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, General Count Montholon, 1846-47
• The history of the French revolution, M. A. Thiers, 1852
• The women of the French revolution, J. Michelet, 1855
• Napoleon and his marshals, Joel Tyler Headley, 1857
• History of the French revolution of 1848, A. de Lamartine; translated by Francis A. Durivage and William S. Chase, 1859
• History of the French Revolution: its causes and consequences, F. Maclean Rowan, 1870
• The French revolution and first empire: an historical sketch, William O'Connor Morris, 1892
• The influence of sea power upon the French revolution and empire: 1793-1812, A.T. Mahan, 1893
• The French Revolution; a political history, 1789-1804, by A. Aulard, 1910
• Travels in upper and lower Egypt during the campaigns of General Bonaparte, Vivant Denon, 1986
• Napoleon and the marshals of the empire, Rufus Griswold
• Memoirs of Napoleon, Louis Bourrienne, [n.d.]

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