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Author : Robert M. Epstein
Publisher : Empire Game Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913037058
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Prince Eugene at War, 1809 written by Robert M. Epstein and published by Empire Game Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Epstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Napoleon's Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War written by Robert M. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a significant new interpretation of Napoleonic warfare, Robert M. Epstein argues persuasively that the true origins of modern war can be found in the Franco-Austrian War of 1809. Epstein contends that the 1809 war -- with its massive and evenly matched armies, multiple theaters of operation, new command-and-control schemes, increased firepower, frequent stalemates, and large-scale slaughter -- had more in common with the American Civil War and subsequent conflicts that with the decisive Napoleonic campaigns that preceded it. - Jacket flap.
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Infantry written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin F. Kiley
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784384119
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Once There Were Titans written by Kevin F. Kiley and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious investigation of Napoleon's generals Covers the well known to the relatively obscure Provides a fresh insight into the periodThis is a masterly study of generalship in Napoleon's Grande Arme. Napoleon arguably had the greatest collection of military talent to ever serve one man working for him during the period 1800-15. The role of the Marshals of the Empire has been covered many times, and due credit is also given to them here; however, for the first time Kevin Kiley also examines in depth the contribution of the generals who never made that rank. Fifty-two general officers are examined using the battles they fought to illustrate just how valuable they were. From Marengo in 1800 to Ligny in 1815, both French victories and defeats are studied in meticulous detail, each chapter covering a battle fought and the generals who commanded them. Diverse source material has been consulted in the preparation of this volume, including after-action reports, memoirs and correspondence from officers including Senarmont, Eble, Drouot, Teste, Marmont, and Davout, as well as from lesser-known characters such as the artillerymen Boulart and Nol, and the Polish cavalryman Niegelewski, who led the final dash up the pass of Somosierra. Furthermore, those closest to Napoleon such as Fain and Marchand give their piece and provide invaluable information. Taken individually, this material paints a vivid picture of the Grande Arme and those who led it into fire. Taken as a whole, it provides an invaluable source and tells the story of the officers without whom Napoleon could never have achieved as much.
Author : Russell F. Weigley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217073
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Age of Battles written by Russell F. Weigley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." --Gunther E. Rothenberg " A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." --John Bayley, The London Review of Books "What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of 'rational' warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." --Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
Author : Frederick C. Schneid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313010609
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Napoleon's Italian Campaigns written by Frederick C. Schneid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars raged in Italy for 23 years. In that time, no fewer than eight campaigns involving hundred of thousands of troops were mounted in the Italian peninsula, as France and Austria struggled over this secondary, but still vitally important theater of war. As Frederick Schneid demonstrates in this groundbreaking work, control of Italy was rightly seen by Napoleon as an important means of applying strategic pressure on the Austrians, while simultaneously providing security for France's vulnerable southern flank. As the first in-depth consideration of the struggle for strategically key region, this book places the Italian campaigns into their proper historical context. Beginning with a geo-strategic overview of the Italian peninsula and its place in French and Austrian calculations, Schneid moves on to a careful consideration of the major campaigns that began in 1805, 1809, and 1813. These include studies of the battles at Caldiero, Wagram, and Mincio. The book also provides appendices with complete orders of battle for each campaign.
Author : Frederick C. Schneid
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Napoleon's Italian Campaigns written by Frederick C. Schneid and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of a badly neglected aspect of Napoleonic history, his significant campaigns in Italy.
Author : Rory Muir
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300147686
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon written by Rory Muir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study of Napoleonic battles and tactics examines firsthand accounts from soldiers’ memoirs, diaries, and letters: “A major work” (David Seymour, Military Illustrated). In this illuminating volume, historian Rory Muir explores what actually happened in battle during the Napoleonic Wars, putting special focus on how the participants’ feelings and reactions influenced the outcome. Looking at the immediate dynamics of combat, Muir sheds new light on how Napoleon’s tactics worked. This analysis is enhanced with vivid accounts of those who were there—the frightened foot soldier, the general in command, the young cavalry officer whose boils made it impossible to ride, and the smartly dressed aide-de-camp, tripped up by his voluminous pantaloons. Muir considers the interaction of artillery, infantry, and cavalry; the role of the general, subordinate commanders, staff officers, and aides; morale, esprit de corps, soldiers’ attitudes toward death and feelings about the enemy; the plight of the wounded; the difficulty of surrendering; and the way victories were finally decided. He discusses the mechanics of musketry, artillery, and cavalry charges and shows how they influenced the morale, discipline, and resolution of the opposing armies. "Muir has filled an important gap in the study of the Napoleonic era."—Library Journal
Author : John H. Gill
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1783033541
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs Volume III written by John H. Gill and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very impressive piece of work, and it is unlikely to be surpassed for many years . . . A very valuable guide to Napoleon’s last great victory” (HistoryOfWar.org). With this third volume, John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking place elsewhere: Eugene won a crucial victory over Johann on the anniversary of Marengo, Prince Poniatowski’s Poles outflanked another Austrian archduke along the Vistula, and Marmont drove an Austrian force out of Dalmatia to join Napoleon at Vienna. These campaigns set the stage for the titanic Battle of Wagram. Second only in scale to the slaughter at Leipzig in 1813, Wagram saw more than 320,000 men and 900 guns locked in two days of fury that ended with an Austrian retreat. The defeat, however, was not complete: Napoleon had to force another engagement before Charles would accept a ceasefire. The battle of Znaim, its true importance often not acknowledged, brought an extended armistice that ended with a peace treaty signed in Vienna. Gill uses an impressive array of sources in an engaging narrative covering both the politics of emperors and the privations and hardship common soldiers suffered in battle. Enriched with unique illustrations, forty maps, and extraordinary order-of-battle detail, this work concludes an unrivalled English-language study of Napoleon’s last victory. “Sheds new light on well-known stages in the battle . . . he has covered more than just an epochal battle in a magnificent book that will satisfy the most avid enthusiasts of Napoleonic era military history.” —Foundation Napoleon
Author : Patrick Rambaud
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802138101
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Battle written by Patrick Rambaud and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional re-creation of the 1809 battle of Essling captures the events of the conflict, Napoleon's first major defeat, through the experiences of real-life people of the time.
Author : John H. Gill
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1783830719
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)
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.
Author : Gunther E Rothenberg
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780226985
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Emperor's Last Victory written by Gunther E Rothenberg and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading expert examines one of Napoleon's most decisive but least analysed victories In early July 1809 Napoleon crossed the Danube with 187,000 men to confront the Austrian Archduke Charles and an army of 145,000 men. The fighting that followed dwarfed in intensity and scale any previous Napoleonic battlefield, perhaps any in history: casualties on each side were over 30,000. The Austrians fought with great determination, but eventually the Emperor won a narrow victory. Wagram was decisive in that it compelled Austria to make peace. It also heralded a new, altogether greater order of warfare, anticipating the massed manpower and weight of fire deployed much later in the battles of the American Civil War and then at Verdun and on the Somme.
Author : John T. Kuehn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440833087
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Napoleonic Warfare written by John T. Kuehn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully researched book provides an operational level analysis of European warfare from 1792 to 1815 that includes the tactics, operations, and strategy of major conflicts of the time. 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the famous Waterloo campaign, sparking a renewed interest in Napoleon's prowess as a military leader and acumen as a strategist. This in-depth analysis scrutinizes the complex campaigns and strategies of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, looking at how military genius—referred to in the book as "operational art"—shaded the panorama of 18th-century warfare. Drawing upon familiar battles as well as lesser-known campaigns, this sweeping reference uses 20th-century military theory to explain 19th-century events. Author John T. Kuehn discusses joint warfare and strategy found in the military movements of Marshal Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland in 1799; the early and later campaigns of Napoleon and Nelson; and the Duke of Wellington's campaigns in Spain, Portugal, and Belgium. The work also includes an entire chapter on theory and history of operational art spanning a variety of perspectives—from theorist Carl von Clausewitz to American air force pilot John Boyd. This book is a must-have for any military history collection.
Author : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unpublished Correspondence of Napoleon I written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The English Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Knight
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The English Cyclopaedia: Cyclopaedia of biography written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book The English Cyclopædia written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
