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Blucher And The Uprising Of Prussia Against Napoleon - 1806-1815 (Paperback)
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Blucher And The Uprising Of Prussia Against Napoleon: 1806-1815 BY
ERNEST F. HENDERSON PH.D. (BERLIN), L.H.D. (TRINITY) BLUCHER is
chiefly known to English readers as the man who came to
Wellington's aid at Waterloo. The object of the present volume is
to show that he had a separate existence of his own and performed
other great deeds in the cause that are equally deserving of
praise. Strange that he has never been made the subject of an
English biography and that of his German lives none have been
translated into English The present work cannot pretend altogether
to fill the gap, as the plan of the series, if I have under- stood
it rightly, is to treat the movement as fully as the man. I shall
feel a certain satisfaction if I can suc- ceed in establishing
Blucher in his rightful position, as the peer of Wellington in all
that concerns the overthrow of Napoleon. "You forget Well- ington's
Spanish campaigns," I shall be told. "You in turn forget/* I shall
answer, "that Blucher was the one progressive, inspiring ele- ment
among the leaders of the allied armies from the year 1813 on."
Without Blucher's decision to cross the Elbe at Wartenburg there
would have been no battle of Leipzig without his cutting loose from
Schwarzenberg in March, 1814, there would have been no closing in
of the allies on Paris without his brave endurance at Ligny in
spite of the non-arrival of the promised reinforcements, Wellington
would have been over- whelmed at Quatre-Bras and there would have
been no Waterloo. No time could be more favourable than the present
for writing a work on Blucher, seeing that it is the centenary of
the great events in which he played a part. This fact has given the
im- petus to a whole new literature on the subject based very
largely on new material from the war archives. In a splendid series
of works all the campaigns have been treated objectively and
critically and in such detail that we can follow the movements of
each army literally from day to day. I owe much to Binder von
Kriegelstein's two volumes on the war with Austria in 1809 to von
Caemmerer's and von Holleben's volumes on the spring campaign of
1813 to Friederich's three volumes on the fall campaign of 1813 to
von Janson's two volumes on the campaign of 1814 in Prance, and to
von Lettow-Vorbeck's two volumes on the campaign of 1815. All of
these writers are high officers in the German or Austrian armies,
and their judgments have formed my last court of appeal in military
matters. Purely literary works like those of Houssaye, for
instance, who is an academician and not a military man, seem very
puny in comparison. Of great use to me has been a new life of
Blucher in two volumes by von linger but the earlier lives by
Blasendorf and by von Wigger are not altogether superseded. Von
linger gives a good working bibliography, which can be supplemented
from the lists and the reviews that appear at intervals in the
Forschungen zur Brandenburg Preussischen Geschichte and in the
historical magazines.
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