Table of Contents

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

EXPLANATORY KEY TO MAPS

LIST OF MAPS

PREFACE

AUTHOR'S NOTE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

PART ONE. APPRENTICESHIP TO ARMS

Napoleon's military education and formative experiences prior to 1796

INTRODUCTION: FIRST EMERGENCE

1. PREPARATION

2. TOULON

3. BRIGADIER GENERAL OF ARTILLERY

4. THE "SWORD" OF PAUL BARRAS

PART TWO. IN SEARCH OF A REPUTATION

The Campaign in North Italy, April 1796 to April 1797

5. COMMANDER IN CHIEF

6. THE DEFEAT OF PIEDMONT

7. THE BRIDGE OF LODI

8. THE ACHIEVEMENT IN PERIL -- MANTUA

9. CALDIERO AND ARCOLA

10. RIVOLI

11. ADVANCE TO LEOBEN

12. THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS

PART THREE. NAPOLEON'S ART OF WAR

A study of Napoleon's philosophy of war, an analysis of his strategic and battle methods -- and the sources of his ideas

INTRODUCTION: THE MASTER'S WORDS

13. DOCTRINAL INHERITANCE

14. THE INGREDIENTS OF NAPOLEONIC WAR

15. STRATEGIC CONCEPTS

16. GRAND TACTICS ON THE BATTLEFIELD

17. THE EMBRYONIC SYSTEM: CASTIGLIONE

PART FOUR. ORIENTAL INTERLUDE: THE SIX ACRES OF LAND

The Campaign in Egypt and Syria, May 19, 1798 to October 9, 1799

INTRODUCTION: THE SANDS OF MARABOUT

18. ORIENTAL OPPORTUNITIES

19. MEDITERRANEAN CHASE

20. THE PYRAMIDS LOOK DOWN

21. EXPEDITION TO SYRIA

22. THE BALANCE SHEET OF FAILURE

PART FIVE. TOWARD THE SUMMIT: THE CONSPIRATOR AND PEACEMAKER

The coup d'état of Brumaire and the Italian Campaign of 1800

23. THE RIPENED FRUIT

24. FIRST CONSUL

25. PLANS OF CAMPAIGN

26. THE PASSAGE OF THE ALPS

27. MARENGO

28. PEACE RESTORED

PART SIX. THE WORKS OF PEACE AND THE ROAD TO WAR

Napoleon's reconstruction of France and the renewed struggle with England to the formation of the Third Coalition. The creation of La Grande Armée

29. RULER AND LAWGIVER

30. THE CAMP OF BOULOGNE

31. PROSPECTS OF WIDER WAR

32. LA GRANDE ARMÉE

33. IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS

PART SEVEN. FROM THE RHINE TO THE DANUBE

Napoleon's destruction of the Third Coalition

INTRODUCTION: THE EVE OF AUSTERLITZ

34. PLANS AND PREPARATIONS

35. STRATEGIC TRIUMPH -- ULM

36. THE WARRIORS OF HOLY RUSSIA

37. THE BATTLE OF THE THREE EMPERORS -- AUSTERLITZ

38. THE INGREDIENTS OF SUCCESS

PART EIGHT. ROSSBACH AVENGED

The Campaign of 1806 against Prussia

39. HOHENZOLLERN HYPOCRITE

40. PLANS FOR WAR

41. "LE BATAILLON CARRÉ"

42. JENA -- AUERSTADT

43. THE TRIUMPH ANALYZED

PART NINE. WINTER WAR

Napoleon's Campaigns in East Prussia and Poland, October 1806 to February 1807

44. THE ADVANCE TO WARSAW

45. MEN AND MAT201;RIEL

46. THE MANEUVER ON THE NAREW

47. INTERLUDE IN WARSAW

48. THE TRAP THAT FAILED -- IONKOVO

49. THE BATTLE OF EYLAU

50. CONCLUSIONS: THE FIRST CHECK

VOLUME II

PART TEN. SPRING RECOVERY

The renewed Campaign against Russia, culminating in the Battle of Friedland and the Treaty of Tilsit

51. RECONSTRUCTION

52. THE BATTLE OF HEILSBERG

53. THE BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND

54. THE MEETING OF THE EMPERORS

PART ELEVEN. PENINSULAR INTRIGUES

The Campaigns in Portugal and Spain, 1807-1809

55. THE ROAD TO LISBON

56. AN ENGINEERED CRISIS

57. BAILEN AND VIMIERO

58. HARD BARGAINING AT ERFURT

59. IMPERIAL INTERVENTION

60. THE PURSUIT OF MOORE

61. INCOMPLETE ACHIEVEMENT

PART TWELVE. HAPSBURGS RESURGENT: THE LAST SUCCESS

The Danube Campaign of 1809, culminating in the Battle of Wagram and the Peace of Schönbrunn

62. THE NEW CHALLENGE

63. CRISIS ON THE DANUBE

64. ASPERN-ESSLING

65. THE SECOND ATTEMPT: WAGRAM

66. THE ILLUSION OF SUCCESS

PART THIRTEEN. THE ROAD TO MOSCOW

The first part of Napoleon's Russian Campaign, June 22 to September 15, 1812

67. THE BREAKDOWN OF THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ENTENTE

68. WAR PLANS AND PREPARATIONS

69. THE INVASION OF RUSSIA

70. BORODINO

PART FOURTEEN. RETREAT

The second part of Napoleon's Russian Campaign, September 16, 1812 to January 1813

71. PRECARIOUS POSITION

72. COLLAPSE OF AN ARMY

73. THE BEREZINA

74. BACK TO THE ELBE

75. FAILURE OF A GIANT

PART FIFTEEN. TWILIGHT: THE STRUGGLE OF THE NATIONS

Napoleon's attempts to hold Germany and destroy the Allies, culminating in the heavy defeat sustained at the Battle of Leipzig

76. NEW ARMIES

77. LÜTZEN AND BAUTZEN

78. THE ARMISTICE

79. DRESDEN

80. THE BATTLE OF THE NATIONS

81. BACK TO THE NATURAL FRONTIERS

PART SIXTEEN. "LA PATRIE EN DANGER"

The Campaign of 1814, culminating in Napoleon's abdication

82. PLAYING FOR TIME

83. A PARLOUS OPENING

84. RAPID RECOVERY

85. THE ECLIPSE OF SCHWARZENBERG

86. CHECK IN THE NORTH -- LAON

87. THE LAST GAMBLE: ARCIS AND ABDICATION

PART SEVENTEEN. THE CAMPAIGN OF THE HUNDRED DAYS

Napoleon's return from exile and the events leading to his final abdication

INTRODUCTION: MEETING AT LE CAILLOU

88. RETURN OF THE EMPEROR

89. A POUNDING FOR BLÜCHER

90. THE ERRORS OF MARSHAL NEY

91. THE FINAL MOVES

92. WATERLOO

93. POSTSCRIPT

APPENDICES

A. ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE ARMY OF ITALY, APRIL 12, 1796

B. EXAMPLES OF NAPOLEON'S CHIEF Manoeuvres sur les Derrières

C. THE STRENGTH AND POSITIONS OF L'Armée de Réserve, JUNE 14, 1800

D. THE FORMATIONS OF La Grande Armée, AUGUST 29, 1805

E. THE ORGANIZATION OF L'Armée d'Espagne IN NOVEMBER 1808

F. THE FORMATIONS OF THE RE-FORMED Grande Armée ON MARCH 30, 1809

G. ORGANIZATION OF La Grande Armée FOR THE CAMPAIGN OF 1812

H. ORGANIZATION OF L'Armé du Nord FOR THE CAMPAIGN OF 1815

I. SUMMARY OF SELECTED BATTLES

J. THE IMPERIAL NOBILITY

REFERENCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY OF MILITARY TERMS

INDEXES

About the Author

David G. Chandler is Head of the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and a Fellow of both the Royal Historical and the Royal Geographical societies. He is President of the British Commission for Military History and a Vice- President of the Commission International d'Histoire Militaire.

During his researches for The Campaigns of Napoleon, Mr. Chandler made considerable use of primary sources -- including the thirty-two volumes of Correspondence de I'Empereur Napoleon Iier -- and consulted many contemporary memoirs and military commentaries. (This he did with some caution, for such material is often far from reliable.) He also examined many of the most revealing and interesting studies that have been written by soldiers and scholars over the past 145 years, and he incorporated extracts from recently discovered sources in the hope of illuminating still further the well- trodden paths of Napoleonic studies.

The author of a dozen works on early eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century military history, David G. Chandler is a recognized authority in the Marlburian and Napoleonic periods. His other publications include A Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars, 1979, Waterloo -- The Hundred Days, 1980, An Atlas of Military Strategy, 1980, and Napoleon's Marshals, (editor), 1987. He has also contributed a chapter to Volume VI of the New Cambridge Modern History as well as numerous articles and reviews to magazines and journals. Chandler lives in Yately, Hampshire, England.

Reviews

Eliot Fremont-Smith Books of the Times A massive and absorbing -- one is tempted to say definitive -- account and detailed analysis of the military career of Napoleon....The descriptions of the battles -- all the important ones, and all augmented by superb position maps -- have perhaps never been done with greater clarity.

The New York Review of Books Chandler can hold up his head with the best of them. His prose is as clear as his intellect....his scholarship is excellent...this is a fine book for the historian, the student, and the intelligent reader.

Los Angeles Times Chandler's analysis is so thorough that there is hardly an area untouched.

The New Yorker The book is engrossing, and...amounts to a first-rate general account of Europe in the Napoleonic era....brilliant, unremittingly attentive to detail and sparkling with insights into a man, a nation, and an epoch.

The Boston Globe Writing clearly and vividly, [Chandler] turns dozens of persons besides Napoleon from mere wooden soldiers into three- dimensional characters.

John Barkham Book Week In every way...a pleasure to read...a remarkable work which comes as close to dissecting the ingredients of Napoleon's military genius as any I have read...[it is] that rare combination -- a book impeccable in its expertise, penetrating in its analysis, and attractive in its presentation. No matter how numerous your books on Napoleon, make room for this one.

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