Napoleon’s Battle System
D.G. Chandler offers his examination of Napoleonic strategy during the “golden years” of the First Empire.
The great names of Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland and Wagram are common knowledge to any student with even a passing acquaintance of the military affairs of the early nineteenth century; they symbolize the military triumph of the First French Empire and the military incompetence, in some cases even decadence, of their opponents.
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