In his early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting wars that changed the shape of the continent and brought death to millions. At thirty, he had become an absolute master of Europe's most powerful country. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. Bellĭavid Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility-for both good and ill-that Napoleon represented. Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David A.
N° de ref.Napoleon: The Path to Power by Philip Dwyer Several campaigns later, he was Emperor of France, busily constructing the "Grande Armee." This great war machine is described in considerable detail: the composition of the armies and the "elite" Guard the staff system and the methods of command. Chandler shows how these principles were clearly conceived as early as the Battle of Castiglione, when Napoleon was only twenty -six. Introducing the elements of Napoleonic "grand tactics" as they developed in his Italian, Egyptian, and Syrian campaigns, Mr. Chandler examines in detail each campaign mounted and personally conducted by Napoleon, analyzing the strategies employed, revealing wherever possible the probable sources of his subject's military ideas. To clarify these underlying methods, as well as the style of Napoleon's fabulous intellect, Mr. But there were from the first to the last certain basic principles of strategic maneuver and battlefield planning that he almost invariably put into practice.
To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. "The Campaigns of Napoleon" is an exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. General de Gaulle wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career." He was also the author of a military biography of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and of The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough. According to his obituary in The Daily Telegraph, his "comprehensive account of Napoleon's battles" (The Campaigns of Napoleon) is "unlikely to be improved upon, despite a legion of rivals. Later life he taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. David Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 - 10 October 2004) was a British historian whose study focused on the Napoleonic era. Black marks on top, side, and bottom edges.
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