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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164077003321

Autore

Maude C.B., late R.E., Colonel Frederic Natusch

Titolo

The Ulm Campaign - 1805

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Wagram Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-908692-81-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (115 pages)

Collana

The Special Campaigns Series ; ; v.12

Altri autori (Persone)

PublishingPickle Partners

Disciplina

940.27

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CHAPTER I -- THE AUSTRIAN ARMY -- CHAPTER II -- THE FRENCH ARMY -- CHAPTER III -- POLITICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING AUSTRIAN OPERATIONS -- CHAPTER IV -- THE MARCH FROM BOULOGNE TO THE RHINE -- The Grand Army -- CHAPTER V -- FROM THE RHINE TO THE DANUBE -- CHAPTER VI -- AUSTRIAN OPERATIONS FROM THE PASSAGE OF THE DANUBE TO THE BATTLE OF ELCHINGEN -- CHAPTER VII -- THE FRENCH MOVEMENTS FROM THE 6TH OCTOBER TO THE BATTLE OF ELCHINGEN -- CHAPTER VIII -- FROM THE BATTLE OF ELCHINGEN TO THE CAPITULATION OF ULM -- CHAPTER IX -- CONCLUSION.

Sommario/riassunto

Colonel Maude, wrote a number of works on the Napoleonic period, and although they were published out of the chronological order of the campaigns, Leipzig(1813), Jena (1806) and Ulm (1805), they formed an unbroken stream of commentary as to the methods of the world's greatest general, Napoleon. In this volume, Colonel Maude follows Napoleon as he sets out with his finest Grande Armée, from the camp of Boulogne where they have been well-drilled and trained, to oppose the Austrians for a further round of hostilities which had only really been suspended briefly between 1800-1805. The basic premise of the series of books was that "Napoleon did in fact possess during his later years a fixed method in strategy, which he invariably followed whenever topographical conditions permitted. This method enabled him to be absolutely certain of accumulating at the decisive point of the



battlefield a crushing numerical superiority, no matter what plans his opponents might have formed;" It was the opening of the 1805 campaign that truly showed what Napoleon had learnt since his initial campaigns in Italy on a vast scale, now the corps d'armée he commanded dwarfed the entire armies of previous wars. His articulated, co-ordinated march through and round the Black Forest, stumped the veteran commander of the Austrian forward army, the "unfortunate Mack", and despite some less than sterling work by some of his subordinates netted an entire army into the "bag". Some of Napoleon's troops would found a new way of fighting, that he made "war using our feet".A fascinating book, in an excellent series.