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Napoleon's Campaigns In Italy 1796-1797 And 1800 (Hardcover)
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Napoleon's Campaigns In Italy 1796-1797 And 1800 (Hardcover)
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NAPOLEONS CAMPAIGNS IN ITALY 1796-1797 and 1800 by
BRIGADIER-GENERAL R. G. BURTON. First published in 1912. 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 foundations 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 to Napoleon
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 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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