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Book Synopsis Napoleon Conquers Austria by : James R. Arnold
Download or read book Napoleon Conquers Austria written by James R. Arnold and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-07-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sun rose on April 24, 1809, to illuminate a continent at war. From Poland to Spain, some 600,000 soldiers awakened to duty. Nowhere was the concentration of forces greater than in the Danube Valley where Napoleon had determined to launch his blow against the Austrian Generalissimus Erzherzog (Archduke) Karl. If Karl triumphed, most of Europe stood poised to pounce, Napoleon and the French Empire would be attacked from all quarters.
Book Synopsis The 1809 Campaign Omnibus by : James R. Arnold
Download or read book The 1809 Campaign Omnibus written by James R. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Napoleon & the Archduke Charles by : Francis Loraine Petre
Download or read book Napoleon & the Archduke Charles written by Francis Loraine Petre and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs by : John H. Gill
Download or read book Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs written by John H. Gill and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the 1809 Franco-Austrian War presents an in-depth chronicle Napoleon’s last great victory. On April 10th, 1809, while Napoleon was occupied in Western Europe with the Peninsular War, the Austrian Empire launched a surprise attack that sparked the War of the Fifth Coalition. Though France would ultimately win the conflict, it would be Napoleon’s last victorious war. Even then, the margin of French superiority was decreasing. Archduke Charles, the best of the Habsburg commanders, led a reformed Austrian Army that was arguably the best ever fielded by the Danubian Monarchy. Though caught off guard, the French Emperor reversed a dire strategic situation with stunning blows that he called his 'most brilliant and most skillful maneuvers'. Following a breathless pursuit down the Danube valley, Napoleon occupied the palaces of the Habsburgs for the second time in four years. He would win many battles in his future campaigns, but never again would one of Europe's great powers lie broken at his feet. In Thunder on the Danube, historian John H. Gill tackles the political background of the war, including the motivations behind the Austrian offensive. Gill also demonstrates that 1809 was both a high point of the First Empire as well as a watershed, for Napoleon's armies were declining in quality and he was beginning to display the corrosive flaws that contributed to his downfall five years later. His opponents, on the other hand, were improving.
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Book Synopsis The Napoleonic Wars and German Nationalism in Austria by : Walter Consuelo Langsam
Download or read book The Napoleonic Wars and German Nationalism in Austria written by Walter Consuelo Langsam and published by New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited. This book was released on 1930 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the years from 1806-1815 between the defeats of Ulm and Austerlitz and the Congress of Vienna to observe this period of German nationalism in Austria.
Book Synopsis 1809 Thunder On The Danube by : Jack Gill
Download or read book 1809 Thunder On The Danube written by Jack Gill and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third volume John H. Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the 1809 war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. This final volume begins with the principal armies of both antagonists recuperating on the Danubes banks. As they prepared for the next encounter, important actions were taking place in distant theaters of war: Eugene brought his army into Hungary and won a crucial victory over Johann on the anniversary of Marengo, Prince Poniatowskis Poles outflanked another Austrian archduke along the Vistula, and future marshal Marmont drove an Austrian force out of Dalmatia to join Napoleon at Vienna. These subsidiary campaigns all set the stage for the clash that would decide the war: the titanic Battle of Wagram. Second only in scale to the three-day slaughter at Leipzig in 1813, Wagram saw more than 320,000 men and 900 guns locked in two days of fury that ended with Austrian retreat. The defeat, however, was not entirely complete and Napoleon had to force yet another major engagement on the Austrians before Charles would accept a ceasefire. This under-appreciated battle at Znaim introduced an extended armistice that finally ended with a peace treaty signed in Vienna in October. Gill makes use of an impressive array of sources to present a lively account that covers the conflict from the diplomacy of emperors to the common soldiers suffering the privations of campaigning and the horrors of battle as they attempt to carry out their duties. Enriched with uncommon illustrations, more than 40 specially prepared maps, and extraordinary order of battle detail, this work concludes an unprecedented English language study of Napoleons last victorious war.
Book Synopsis Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign. With Comments by : Herbert Howland Sargent
Download or read book Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign. With Comments written by Herbert Howland Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Napoleon's Great Adversary by : Gunther Erich Rothenberg
Download or read book Napoleon's Great Adversary written by Gunther Erich Rothenberg and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The largest force continually engaged against Napoleon and the forces of Revolutionary, later Imperial, France from 1792 to 1814 was the Imperial and Royal Austrian army. It was this army which, throughout Europe, carried the burden of the war on land. Though defeated repeatedly by Napoleon, its record against French armies generally was good. Rising from its previous defeats, in 1809, the Austrian army inflicted the first defeat on Napoleon and in 1813, contributed the largest contingent to the Allied effort in Germany." "The effects of the political, economic and social constraints are clearly explained to put the Austrian army in to the context of its day. The major campaigns and important battles are covered in detail; the strategy and tactics of its commanders are explained and analysed; the initial organisation and subsequent reforms delineated to produce a thorough survey of the Austrian army."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis The Emperor's Last Victory by : Gunther Erich Rothenberg
Download or read book The Emperor's Last Victory written by Gunther Erich Rothenberg and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Wagram, fought on the plains east of Vienna on 5-6 July 1809, was Napoleon's last decisive victory. When the defeated Austrian army was forced to retreat on the evening of 6 July, it left Napoleon not just master of the battlefield but poised to consolidate his grip across central and eastern Europe. At Wagram, in defeating the only European land power able to challenge him, Napoleon paved the way to the highpoint of his dominance in Europe. It was an epic clash in every sense, the largest battle yet fought, a grim, two-day attritional struggle in which more than 320,000 troops confronted each other over a 14-mile front. Combined casualties topped 72,000. As significant, it marked a rise in the importance of massed artillery fire. Almost 1,500 guns were deployed by both sides and the staggering total of 95,000 rounds fired. Operationally as much as tactically, the battle was a key development in the emergence of modern warfare, a clear forerunner of the American Civil War and, with modifications, of the Prussian victories in the wars of German unification. The army confronting Napoleon at Wagram not only had the advantage of fighting from prepared defensive positions on home soil, it was a greatly more efficient force than that of even four years earlier. Its defeat was overwhelmingly the result of Napoleon's own single-minded and daring military prowess. As Wellington later famously claimed, the French emperor's presence on the battlefield was worth 40,000 men. Unrelenting in his energy and determination, he inspired, cajoled and provoked his huge army to victory. In comparison, the Austrian commander, the Archduke Charles, hemmed in by political intrigues not of his making, offered no more than general competence. It would never be a match for the comet-like blaze of Napoleon's genius. Generalship remained the decisive element.
Book Synopsis Napoleon & the Archduke Charlesa History of the Franco-Austrian Campaign in the Valley of the Danube in 1819 by : F Loraine Petre
Download or read book Napoleon & the Archduke Charlesa History of the Franco-Austrian Campaign in the Valley of the Danube in 1819 written by F Loraine Petre and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Loraine Petre was one of our foremost military historians, specialising in the Napoleonic Wars. In this, among his most respected works, he analyses one of Napoleon's hardest-fought campaigns that of the Danube valley in 1809, in which the Emperor was lucky to emerge victorious, and then only after a desperate struggle with an Austrian army led by an able and determined opponent. That man, perhaps surprisingly, was a blue-blooded Habsburg Archduke - a dynasty not noted for its military achievements. But Archduke Charles was the exception that proves the rule. A veteran of campaigns against the French in the Low Countries and Italy, he had personally reorganised the Austrian army after the disastrous defeat of Austerlitz in 1805, making it into a far more efficient fighting machine. Napoleon, backed by two of his ablest Marshals, Lannes and Davout, defeated the Austrians in three minor engagements but was then roundly beaten by Charles on the banks of the Danube outside Vienna at the great battle of Essling-Aspern, in which Lannes was killed. Napoleon finally triumphed at the bloody battle of Wagram, a Pyrhrric victory after which Charles was prematurely dismissed and the Austrians concluded a peace with the Emperor at Schonbunn.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Znaim by : John H Gill
Download or read book The Battle of Znaim written by John H Gill and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little known Battle of Znaim (10th-11th July 1809) was the last battle to be fought on the main front of the Franco-Austrian War. Cut short to make way for an armistice it effectively ended hostilities between France and Austria and is now uniquely considered to be an episode both of conflict and simultaneously of diplomacy. The battle began as a result of the Austrian decision to stage a rearguard action near Znaim, prompting the Bavarians to unsuccessfully storm a nearby town. Battle ensued with the village changing hands a number of times over the course of the two days. Jack Gill delves deep into the respective tactics of both sides as the two armies continually changed positions and strategies. His account dissects and investigates the dual aspects of the Battle of Znaim and explains the diplomatic decisions that resulted in the peace treaty which was signed at Schonbrunn Palace on 14th October 1809. Gill’s book is an unrivaled analysis of the Battle of Znaim. Accessible, highly detailed and expertly crafted, it sheds new light on this fascinating moment in Napoleonic history.
Book Synopsis Marengo & Hohenlinden by : James R. Arnold
Download or read book Marengo & Hohenlinden written by James R. Arnold and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A good overview of the forces, their tactics, mistakes (and lies in official reports)” of the two pivotal campaigns that cemented Napoleon’s dictatorship (Paper Wars). In a tense, crowded thirty-three days in the autumn of 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte organized a coup and made himself dictator of France. Yet his position was precarious. He knew that France would accept his rule only if he gained military victories that brought peace. James Arnold, in this detailed and compelling account, describes the extraordinary campaigns that followed. At Marengo, Bonaparte defeated the Austrians and his fellow general Jean Moreau beat the combined Austrian and Bavarian armies at Hohenlinden. These twin campaigns proved decisive. Bonaparte’s dictatorship was secure and his enemies across Europe were forced in a 15-year struggle to overthrow him.
Book Synopsis Crisis on the Danube by : James R. Arnold
Download or read book Crisis on the Danube written by James R. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Napoleon by : John Codman Ropes
Download or read book The First Napoleon written by John Codman Ropes and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Napoleon & the Archduke Charles by : Francis Loraine Petre
Download or read book Napoleon & the Archduke Charles written by Francis Loraine Petre and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napoleon written by Ted Gott and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social change with the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the rise to power of the young Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine.
Book Synopsis 1809 Thunder on the Danube by : John H. Gill
Download or read book 1809 Thunder on the Danube written by John H. Gill and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of this epic work, John H. Gill traces Napoleon's progress as he sought to complete his victory over the Habsburgs. The war had erupted on April 10th with Austria's invasion of Germany and Italy. After just two weeks, Napoleon had battered the Habsburg Archduke Charles in a series of bruising defeats. This volume begins with Napoleon astride the Danube at Regensburg. He faced a critical strategic choice - whether to pursue the injured Austrian main army into Bohemia or march directly for Vienna, the seat of Habsburg power. After electing to target Vienna, his troops defeated the Austrians in the brutal Battle of Ebelsberg, allowing him to enter the city on May 13th. However on the far side of the Danube, he then suffered a dramatic loss at the grueling, two-day Battle of Aspern. While his Danube forces recovered from this setback, the Emperor cleared trouble from his strategic flanks. Gill describes in vivid detail the hopeful Habsburg invasion of Italy, led by the 27-year-old Archduke Johann, and the fierce French counter-offensive under Napoleon's stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais (also aged 27). In a series of encounters across Italy, de Beauharnais rebounded from initial defeat to advance triumphantly into Austrian territory, shattering and scattering Johann's army. In the wake of Aspern, while the Austrians vacillated, Napoleon gathered every man, horse and gun around Vienna, setting the stage for the gigantic spectacle of the Battle of Wagram, the final chapter in the story of the 1809 war.
