Napoleon; a History of the Art of War: From the beginning of the Peninsular war to the end of the Russian campaign, with a detailed account of the Napoleonic warsHoughton, Mifflin, 1907 |
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... communications and the capital . - On July 13 , in a note for Savary , " If Dupont should meet a check , it would be of little consequence , " he said . " It would have no other result than to make him recross the mountains ; but a blow ...
... communications and the capital . - On July 13 , in a note for Savary , " If Dupont should meet a check , it would be of little consequence , " he said . " It would have no other result than to make him recross the mountains ; but a blow ...
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... communications with Portugal by occupying the line of the Douro . The third to conserve the Ebro , the fourth to con- serve communications with Pampeluna and St. Sebastian , so that on the arrival of the Grand Army we can in a short ...
... communications with Portugal by occupying the line of the Douro . The third to conserve the Ebro , the fourth to con- serve communications with Pampeluna and St. Sebastian , so that on the arrival of the Grand Army we can in a short ...
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... communications and reports . " In Notes for Joseph , September 15 , the emperor wrote : " The offensive position of the Army of Spain is essentially bad . The position on the Ebro , and especially the so important debouch of Burgos ...
... communications and reports . " In Notes for Joseph , September 15 , the emperor wrote : " The offensive position of the Army of Spain is essentially bad . The position on the Ebro , and especially the so important debouch of Burgos ...
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... communications , marching out to meet the enemy , and giving him battle wherever he should find him . To this plan Napoleon responded with a positive refusal . ... Note for Joseph , September 22 : " It is proposed to march with fifty ...
... communications , marching out to meet the enemy , and giving him battle wherever he should find him . To this plan Napoleon responded with a positive refusal . ... Note for Joseph , September 22 : " It is proposed to march with fifty ...
Side 55
... communications , but not his line of operations ; for the line of operations runs from the glacis to the middle of the place . " This idea is sound , but the words are not as exact as Jomini's would have been to express the idea . And ...
... communications , but not his line of operations ; for the line of operations runs from the glacis to the middle of the place . " This idea is sound , but the words are not as exact as Jomini's would have been to express the idea . And ...
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Napoleon: From the beginning of the Penninsular war to the end of the ... Theodore Ayrault Dodge Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1907 |
Napoleon; a History of the Art of War: From the beginning of the Peninsular ... Theodore Ayrault Dodge Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1907 |
Napoleon; a History of the Art of War: From the beginning of the Peninsular ... Theodore Ayrault Dodge Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1907 |
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Abensberg advance April archduke arrived artillery Asparn assembled attack Augsburg Austrian Badajoz Bagration Barclay battalions battle Bavarians Bernadotte Berthier Bessières Bohemia Borodino Breitenlee bridge Burgos campaign Castaños cavalry centre Charles column command corps cross Danube Davout debouch defeat defense division Donauwörth Ebro Eggmühl emperor enemy enemy's English Essling Eugene fight flank force French army Friant front Grand Army Guard Gudin guns headquarters Hilaire Hiller horse hundred infantry Ingolstadt Isar July Junot Kollowrath Kutusov La Romana Landshut Lannes Lefebvre Linz Lisbon Lobau Madrid manœuvre marshals Massena miles Moore Morand Moscow move Murat Nansouty Napoleon Napoleon wrote operation orders Oudinot Passau Poniatowski Portugal position pushed Ratisbon reached rear regiments reserve retired retreat river road Russian Salamanca Saragossa seize sent Smolensk soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish Tagus Talavera thousand town troops Vandamme Victor Vienna village Vilna Vitebsk Wellesley Wellington wing Wrede wrote Berthier
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Side 88 - But in case his mild and healing mediation should be again refused, he declared he would treat them as a conquered people, and place his brother on another throne. " I will, in that case, set the crown of Spain on my own head, and I shall know how to make it respected ; for God,'' concluded this extraordinary document, " has given me the power and the will to surmount all difficulties.
Side 356 - These circumstances, combined with the extreme fatigue of the troops, the want of provisions, and the number of wounded to be taken care of, have prevented me from moving from my position.
Side 165 - Austria arrived at my bivouac in Moravia ; you heard him implore my clemency, and swear an eternal friendship.
Side 701 - Sebastian were invested. Joseph's reign was over, the crown had fallen from his head, and after years of toils and combats which had been rather admired than understood, the English general, emerging from the chaos of the Peninsular struggle, stood on the summit of the Pyrenees a recognized conqueror. From those lofty pinnacles the clangor of his trumpets pealed clear and loud, and the splendor of his genius appeared as a flaming beacon to warring nations.
Side 693 - that discipline had deteriorated during the campaign in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed or ever read of in any army, and this without any disaster, any unusual privation or hardship save that of inclement weather ; that the officers had, from the first, lost all command over their men, and...
Side 280 - Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation.
Side 49 - Let us bear our triumphal eagles to the pillars of Hercules, there also we have injuries to avenge ! Soldiers ! you have surpassed the renown of modern armies, but have you yet equalled the glory of those Romans who, in one and the same campaign, were victorious upon the Rhine and the Euphrates, in Illyria and upon the Tagus! A long peace, a lasting prosperity, shall be the reward of your labours.
Side 565 - here is the battle you have longed for ; it is necessary, for it brings us plenty, good winter-quarters, and a safe return to France. Behave yourselves so that posterity may say of each of you, ' He was in that great battle under the walls of Moscow.
Side 49 - Rome, which, in the same campaign, triumphed on the Rhine and on the Euphrates, in Illyria and on the Tagus.