SPECIAL CAMPAIGN SERIES. No. 15 NAPOLEONS CAMPAIGNS IN ITALY
1796-1797 and 1800 BY BRIGADIER-GENERAL R. G. BURTON 4 Above all,
for Empire and Greatness, it importeth most that a Nation do
profess arms as their principal honour, study and occupation.
FRANCIS BACON. LONDON GEORGE ALLEN fc UNWIN LTD MUSEUM STREET THE
SPECIAL CAMPAIGN SERIES Crown Svo, cloth, copiously supplied with
Maps and Plans. Price 75. 6d. net each. I. SAARBRUCK TO PARIS THE
FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. By COL. SISSON C. PRATT, late R. A. II. THE
RUSSO TURKISH WAR, 1877. By MAJOR F. MAURICE. Out of print. III.
FREDERICKSBURG A STUDY IN WAR, 1862. By MAJOR G. W. REDWAY. IV. THE
CAMPAIGN OF MAGENTA AND SOLFERINO, 1859. By COL. H. C. WYLLY, C. B.
V. THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN. By COL. SISSON C. PRATT, late R A. VI.
THE CAMPAIGN IN BOHEMIA, 1866. By L r.-CoL. G. J. R. GLUNICKE. VII.
THE LEIPZIG CAMPAIGN, 1813. By COL F. N. MAUDE. C B, late R. E.
VIII. GRANTS CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA, 1864 THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN. By
CAPT. VAUGHAN SAWYER, Indian Army. IX. THE JENA CAMPAIGN, 1806. By
COL. F. N. MAUDE, C. B., late R. E. X. THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. By
MAJOR F. R. SEDG WICK, R. F. A. XI. THE WAR OF SECESSION, 1861-1862
BULL RUN TO MALVERN HILL By MAJOR G. W. REDWAY. XII. THE ULM
CAMPAIGN. By COL. F. N. MAUDE, C. B., late R. E. XIII. THE WAR OF
SECESSION, 1863 CHANCELLORS VILLE AND GETTYSBURG. By COL P. H
DALBIAC. XIV. THE WAR OF SECESSION, 1862 CEDAR RUN, MAN ASS AS, AND
SHARPSBURG. By LIEUT. E. W. SHEPPARD. XV. NAPOLEONS CAMPAIGNS IN
ITALY, 1796-1797 and 1800. By BRIG. - GEN. R. G. BURTON. 2nd
Impression. XVI. THE CAMPAIGN IN MANCHURIA, 1904-1905. SECOND
PERIOD THE DECISIVE BATTLES, 22nd August-1 7th October 1904. By
MAJOR F. R. SEDGWICK, R. F.A. Double Volume, 153. net. Out of
print. XVII. FROM BOULOGNE TO AUSTERLITZ NAPOLEONS CAMPAIGN OF
1805. By BRIG.-GEN. R. G. BURTON. XVIII. AN pUTLINE OF MARLBOROUGHS
CAMPAIGNS. A Brief and Concise Account. Illustrated by nine Sketch
Maps and Plans. By MAJOR F. W. O. MAYCOCK, D. S. O. Out of print.
XIX. NAPOLEONS INVASION OF RUSSIA. By BRIG.-GEN. R. G. BURTON. XX.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF STRATEGY. By CAPT. H. M. JOHNSTONS, R. E. Ret.
XXI. THE INVASION OF FRANCE, 1814. By MAJOR F. W. O. MAYCOCK, D. S.
O. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1912 SECOND IMPRESSION 1931 All Rights
Reserved Printed by The Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh PREFACE
THE historian Gibbon tells us that war and the ad ministration of
affairs are the principal subjects of history. In the opening
campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte we see the conduct of events by a
master of both. Especially instructive to the soldier is the first
series of operations conducted by the greatest master of the art of
war, whose very name sounds like a trumpet-call, and whose genius
illuminates one of the most lurid and marvellous epochs in the
history of the world. In the Middle Ages and until the advent of
Napoleon, the art of war as exemplified in the campaigns of
Alexander and Caesar had been neglected or forgotten. War had
become a pageant, a stately ceremonial, governed by none of those
logical principles which are based on the founda tions of nature
and of reason. It had degenerated into a series of manoeuvres,
frequently carried out to avoid com bat, while lengthy sieges and
the occupation of towns and territory were regarded as the objects
of strategy, to the neglect of the true and proper object the
destruction of the enemys armed forces. It fell toNapoleon
Bonaparte to deduce from the ex perience of history and to
illustrate in the practice of war the whole art of military
operations, based on immutable principles, and exemplified in the
annals of the world. vi PREFACE The first campaign in which he
exercised supreme command consequently marks the opening of an
epoch in the art of war, and serves as a lasting example to those
who would scale the glittering pinnacle of military fame...
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