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Napoleon Against Great Odds
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Author : Ralph Ashby
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-06-02
Napoleon Against Great Odds written by Ralph Ashby and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-02 with History categories.
This revisionist history offers a fresh analysis of Napoleon and the French army as they defended their empire against the massive Coalition invasion of 1814. French defeat in 1814 is too often shrugged off as the result of obvious and understandable factors. Napoleon Against Great Odds: The Emperor and the Defenders of France, 1814 challenges the widely accepted notion that war-weariness and internal political opposition to Napoleon were the decisive and direct causes of French defeat. At least as important, it argues, were material shortages, diplomatic missteps, and even faulty strategic planning on Napoleon's part. The book not only traces the narrative of Napoleon's 1814 Campaign in France, but explores the formation of the French army tasked with defending France against the Coalition invasion. Diplomatic, political, and social factors are taken into account and the issue of war-weariness is analyzed carefully and critically. Each branch and arm of the French forces is examined, as are military mobilization under difficult circumstances and partisan and guerilla warfare. Designed to encourage fresh debate about the 1814 campaign, the book offers thought-provoking reading for scholars and general readers alike.
Napoleon 1814
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Author : Andrew Uffindell
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Napoleon 1814 written by Andrew Uffindell and has been published by Pen & Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 categories.
In 1814, after two successive years of defeat in Russia and central Europe, Napoleon was faced with the ultimate disaster - an Allied invasion of France itself. The conduct of the intense, fast-moving campaign that followed has been widely hailed as one of his greatest feats as a commander, yet it has rarely been described fully and objectively. Andrew Uffindell, in this gripping and original study, reconstructs the campaign, reassesses Napoleon's military leadership and provides a masterly account of a campaign that helped shape modern Europe.Using numerous eyewitness accounts, Napoleon 1814 records the swift succession of clashes in graphic detail, leading up to the final battle outside Paris, the biggest and bloodiest of the entire campaign, and then the extraordinary drama of Napoleon's abdication. It shows for the first time how the course of the campaign was repeatedly determined by the weather and the terrain. The author also covers events off the battlefield, and examines a strangely neglected aspect of the campaign: the devastating impact on the civilian population. He provides a vivid and moving portrayal of a society traumatized by the brutal experience of war, as ordinary people struggled to survive and confront the moral dilemmas posed by enemy occupation.
The Escape From Elba
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Author : Norman Mackenze
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2007-09-20
The Escape From Elba written by Norman Mackenze and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-20 with History categories.
The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain - the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within ten months Napoleon will enter Paris once again, at the heels of the fleeing Bourbon king, flushed with victory and cheered by the masses. The Escape From Elba tells the heroic story of Napoleon's exile and phoenix-like return. In this classic account, now republished in paperback, Norman MacKenzie chronicles this extraordinary year: the tense last hours of Napoleon's empire, his humiliating exile, his midnight escape and his whirlwind march over snowbound mountains to Grenoble where, in a dramatic confrontation with the French army, he became a reigning prince again. Described in vivid detail are Napoleon's adventures as the head of Elba. He brought society, splendour, organization and political intrigue to this run-down backwater. And he displayed on this small stage the many sides of his charismatic.
The End Of Empire
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Author : George F. Nafziger
language : en
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Release Date : 2019-06-15
The End Of Empire written by George F. Nafziger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-15 with categories.
Having suffered a massive reversal of fortunes in Russia Napoleon found himself confronted, in Germany, by the combined forces of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. After the disaster of Leipzig Napoleon’s German allies fell away and he was forced to fall back, beyond the borders of France. Offered a negotiated peace on the basis of a return to the pre-1792 borders, Napoleon chose to continue to fight, trusting in his star. He was, however, desperate for troops and short of horses and cash. Cornered and threatened by three armies invading from the north, northeast, and east, every chance to stop the Allies had to be taken and there was desperate battle after desperate battle. Of all his campaigns, Napoleon’s 1814 campaign was one of his most brilliant. Eventually, after several terrible defeats, the Allies refused to engage him in battle when he confronted them. Instead they pushed their other two armies forward, slowly driving him back as he rushed to block the advance of the other armies on Paris. This strategy proved successful and eventually Napoleon was obliged to abdicate when his marshals refused to fight further.
Napoleon And The Campaign Of 1814
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Author : Henry Houssaye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
Napoleon And The Campaign Of 1814 written by Henry Houssaye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with France categories.
Vienna 1814
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Author : David King
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2008-03-11
Vienna 1814 written by David King and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-11 with History categories.
“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.” —David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modern European history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumably defeated and exiled to the small island of Elba, heads of some 216 states gathered in Vienna to begin piecing together the ruins of his toppled empire. Major questions loomed: What would be done with France? How were the newly liberated territories to be divided? What type of restitution would be offered to families of the deceased? But this unprecedented gathering of kings, dignitaries, and diplomatic leaders unfurled a seemingly endless stream of personal vendettas, long-simmering feuds, and romantic entanglements that threatened to undermine the crucial work at hand, even as their hard-fought policy decisions shaped the destiny of Europe and led to the longest sustained peace the continent would ever see. Beyond the diplomatic wrangling, however, the Congress of Vienna served as a backdrop for the most spectacular Vanity Fair of its time. Highlighted by such celebrated figures as the elegant but incredibly vain Prince Metternich of Austria, the unflappable and devious Prince Talleyrand of France, and the volatile Tsar Alexander of Russia, as well as appearances by Ludwig van Beethoven and Emilia Bigottini, the sheer star power of the Vienna congress outshone nearly everything else in the public eye. An early incarnation of the cult of celebrity, the congress devolved into a series of debauched parties that continually delayed the progress of peace, until word arrived that Napoleon had escaped, abruptly halting the revelry and shrouding the continent in panic once again. Vienna, 1814 beautifully illuminates the intricate social and political intrigue of this history-defining congress–a glorified party that seemingly valued frivolity over substance but nonetheless managed to drastically reconfigure Europe’s balance of power and usher in the modern age.
Napoleon At Bay 1814
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Author : Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2011-06-27
Napoleon At Bay 1814 written by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-27 with History categories.
Following on from the Author’s “Napoleon’s Last Campaign in Germany”, Petre’s closely researched and well argued account of the 1814 campaign, which would see some of the finest strategical manoeuvres of Napoleon’s entire career. As the wreck of the last Grande Armée created in 1813, retreated home from Germany to France it was a pale shadow of its former glory. Marched into the ground as Napoleon struggled to pin down his enemies, and then beaten at Leipzig in the “battle of Nations” as faced by overwhelming weight of men, cavalry and cannon. They had shown their mettle at Hanau by brutally brushing aside the Bavarians who sought to bar their way across the Rhine, but there were now only some 70,000 to 80,000 men still with the colours. The men garrisoning cities and fortresses such as Danzig were lost to the great General, and his enemies implacably approached the soil of France. With such an outlook, what then occurred was perhaps Napoleon’s finest hour, he rallied every last reserve, he could from veterans scraped from the Spanish frontier, or barely adult conscripts. He would then embark on the “Six Days Campaign”, in which he beat the army of Silesia under Blücher, four times in six days. The manoeuvres that led to the battles of Champaubert, Montmirail, Château-Thierry and Vauchamps, are justly celebrated. The tragic dénouement which he and his victorious veterans would suffer, despite all of their hard fought victories would still be the ignominy of defeat as Napoleon’s Generals and Marshals shed their allegiance to him to save France. Author – Francis Loraine Petre OBE - (1852–1925)
Napoleon At Bay 1814
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Author : Francis Loraine Petre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Napoleon At Bay 1814 written by Francis Loraine Petre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Napoleon And The Campaign Of 1814 Classic Reprint
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Author : Henry Houssaye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-10
Napoleon And The Campaign Of 1814 Classic Reprint written by Henry Houssaye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-10 with History categories.
Excerpt from Napoleon and the Campaign of 1814 A hundred years have passed since the capture of Paris by the allies, but Napoleon's campaign in Champagne remains a masterpiece of defensive strategy, and the events connected with his first abdication have lost none of their interest. Henry Houssaye is recognized as being a leading authority on the latter portion of Napoleon's reign, and his vivid language describes both political and military matters in a way which invests them with unflagging interest and furnishes a graphic insight into the personalities of the leading actors in the events which he describes: his writing is not merely a dull catalogue of events, nor is it a partial and one-sided encomium on any one man, and for this reason Houssaye's volumes possess a peculiar interest both for the general reader and for the student of military history. The campaign of 1814 is one which has received little attention from English writers, and there should, therefore, be scope for a translation of the present volume into the English language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Napoleon At Bay 1814
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Author : Francis Loraine Petre
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Napoleon At Bay 1814 written by Francis Loraine Petre and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... INDEX Ailette, R. {see Lette, R.) Alexander I. (Tsar of Russia), 3, 5. 8, 42, 78, 79, 161, 168, 169, 173. 180,187, 188, 191 Allix (French General), 18, 40, 53. 77, 164, 171, 196 Amey (French General), 176, 181, 191, 192 Arcis-sur-Aube, battle of, 167- I7S Armistice, proposals for, 90 Army (French), 2; new levies, 10; drafts from Spain, 11; strength of corps, etc., 17, .; reorganization in February, 52; after Laon, 149; quality of troops, 211, 212 (allied), total strength, 12 Arrighi (French General), 95, 98, 99, 100, no, in, 122, 130, 134, 140, 141 Athies, Hurrah d', 140-142 Aube, R, 14 Augereau (Marshal), 13,79, 80, 87, 148 Austria, 3 Barclay De Tolly (Russian General commanding Guards and Reserves), 26, 29, 44, 46, 77, 81, 87, 160, 162, 181, 187, 188 Bar-sur-Aube, battle of, 158 Baste (French Admiral), 23 Bellegarde (Austrian General), 2 Belliard (French General), 128, 129, 134, 146, 198 Bennigsen (Russian General), 9 Berckheim (French General), 164, 180 Bemadotte (Crown Prince of Sweden), 4, 9, 104 Berthier (Marshal), 19, 115, 150, 192, 193 Bianchi (Austrian General), 77, 81, 83, 86, 87 Bliicher (Prussian Field Mar- shal, commanding Army of Silesia), character and views, 5; letter to Knesebeck, 6; crosses Rhine, 10; march to Brienne, 18-20; battle of Brienne, 21-24; at Trannes, 27; battle of La Rothiere, 28-39 I separation from army of Bohemia, 42, 44, 46, 53, 54; pursues Macdonald, 54, 55; position 9th February, 56, 57; 10th February, 58; nth February, 61, 63; 12th- 13th February, 68; battle of Vauchamps, 69-71; retreat on Chalons, 86, 87; on Aube and Seine, 88, 89; fresh separa- tion, 91, 94; advance to La Ferte"-sous-Jouarre, 97 99, 102-105; crosses Marne and marches to Ourcq andAisne, 106-111; crosses Aisne, 113;...