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The Campaigns of Napoleon

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by David G Chandler


  30 Sir J. Adye, Napoleon of the Snows (London: 1931), p. 175.

  31 Correspondance, Vol. VI, No. 4894, p. 346 (covering letter).

  32 Ibid., No. 4898, pp. 350-51.

  33 Brossier, quoted by de Cugnac, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 258.

  34 General Baon A. H. Jomini, Histoire des guerres de la Révolution, Vol. XVI, p. 271.

  35 H. Lachouque and A. Brown, The Anatomy of Glory (New York: 1961), p. 15.

  36 De Cugnac, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 258, f.n. 1, quoting the Due de Valmy.

  37 Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 361.

  38 MacDonell, op. cit., p. 77.

  39 Correspondance, Vol. VI, No. 4909, p. 360.

  40 Fisher, op. cit., p. 84.

  41 Camon, La guerre Napoléonienne—Précis des campagnes, Vol. I, p. 112 (f.n.).

  42 G. von Schlieffen, Cannae (Berlin: 1909), p. 534 et seq.

  43 Marquise de la Tour-du-Pin, Journal d’une femme de cinquante ans (Paris: 1913), Vol. II, p. 220.

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

  1 J. Fouché, Mémoires, ed. by L. Madelin (Paris: 1945), Vol. I, pp. 215-17.

  2 Gourgaud, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 324-25.

  3 La Marquise de Nadaillac, Mémoires (Paris: 1912), pp. 150-51.

  4 Fisher, op. cit., p. 72.

  5 A. F. F. von Kotzebue, Mes souvenirs de Paris en 1804 (The Hague: 1805), pp. 38-39.

  6 J. A. Chaptal, Mes souvenirs de Napoléon (Paris: 1893), p. 350.

  7 Ibid., p. 220.

  8 J. C. Bailleul, Examen critique (Paris; 1822), Vol. II, p. 413.

  9 M. Mollien, Mémoires d’un ministre du trésor publique (Paris: 1845), Vol. I, p. 413.

  10 Countess Potocka, Mémoires (Paris: 1897), p. 208.

  11 L. Madelin, Le Consulat et l’Empire (Paris: 1932), Vol. I, p. 230.

  12 Jomini, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 311-12.

  13 C. Manceron, Austerlitz (Paris: 1962), p. 57.

  14 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9058, p. 71.

  15 Ibid., No. 9130, p. 133.

  16 Jomini, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 312.

  17 F. N. Maude, The Ulm Campaign (London: 1912), p. 89.

  18 Napoleon I, Maximes, op. cit., No. XCII. Also see Part III (5).

  19 General Camon, Quand et comment Napoléon a conçu son système de bataille (Paris: 1935), p. 274.

  20 Correspondance, Vol. XIX, No. 15678, p. 361.

  21 Reinhard, op. cit., p. 56 (f.n. 7).

  22 Marshal T. R. Bugeaud, Aperçus sur quelques détails de la guerre (Paris: 1846).

  23 See R. S. Quimby, The Background of Napoleonic Warfare (New York: 1957), Ch. XIII.

  24 Correspondance, Vol. XXXI, p. 426, note 4.

  25 Ibid., p. 428, note 5.

  26 Correspondance, Vol. XXXI, p. 428.

  27 Ibid., p. 427.

  28 Ibid., Vol. XXVI, No. 20929, p. 458.

  29 Marmont, op. cit., French edn., Vol. V, p. 105.

  30 J. Ambert, Esquisses de l’Armée Française (Brussels: 1840), pp. 213-14.

  31 Correspondance, Vol. XIX, No. 15358, p. 116.

  32 Ambert, op. cit., p. 231.

  33 General R. A. P. S. de Fézensac, Souvenirs militaires (Paris: 1863), p. 226.

  34 General Desaix, Journal de Voyage de Général Desaix … (Paris: 1797).

  35 General Castelanne, Journal (Paris: 1895), p. 93.

  36 Colonel A. Vachée, Napoleon at Work (London: 1914), p. 90.

  37 Gourgaud, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 565.

  38 Las Cases, Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon (London: 1836), p. 231.

  39 Baron C. F. Méneval, Memoirs (Paris: 1894), Vol. III, p. 48.

  40 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No. 10992, p. 344.

  41 Ibid., Vol. XIV, No. 11517, p. 120.

  PART SEVEN. FROM THE RHINE TO THE DANUBE

  1 Manceron, op. cit., p. 215.

  2 Ibid., p. 215.

  3 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9286, p. 259.

  4 Ibid., No. 9720, p. 250.

  5 E. Fairon and H. Heusse, Lettres des grognards (Paris: 1936), p. 98.

  6 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9325, p. 282.

  7 Ibid., No. 9348, p. 296.

  8 Maude, op. cit., p. 193.

  9 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9364, p. 308.

  10 Ibid., No. 9374, p. 318.

  11 General de Ségur, Histoire et Mémoires (Paris: 1837), p. 180.

  12 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9404, p. 342.

  13 F. M. Kircheisen, Napoleon (London: 1931), p. 328.

  14 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9470, p. 392.

  15 Ibid., No. 9472, p. 394.

  16 Ibid., No. 9497, p. 415.

  17 Quoted by Manceron, op. cit., p. 129.

  18 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9541, p. 447.

  19 Ibid., p. 447.

  20 De Ségur, op. cit., p. 279.

  21 Thiers, op. cit., Vol. V, p. 159.

  22 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9541, p. 448.

  23 Fairon, op. cit., pp. 104-05.

  24 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9533, pp. 440-41.

  25 Fairon, op. cit., p. 105.

  26 Correspondance, Vol. XII, No. 10032, p. 235.

  27 General L. G. Suchet, quoted in Manceron, op. cit., p. 254.

  28 De Ségur, op. cit., p. 252.

  29 Letter to Josephine, quoted by Manceron, op. cit., p. 305.

  30 Manceron, op. cit., p. 74, quoting Thiers.

  31 Correspondance, Vol. XII, No. 10032, p. 230.

  32 Ibid., Vol. XI, No. 9542, p. 453.

  33 Ibid., No. 9541, p. 453.

  PART EIGHT. ROSSBACH AVENGED

  1 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9542, p. 454.

  2 Ibid., No. 9577, pp. 481-82.

  3 Ibid., Vol. XII, No. 9733, p. 20.

  4 F. L. Petre, Napoleon’s Conquest of Prussia (London: 1907), p. 8.

  5 Correspondance, Vol. XI, No. 9656, pp. 528-29.

  6 Ibid., No. 9546, pp. 457-61.

  7 J. F. C. Fuller, The Decisive Battles of the Western World (London: 1955), Vol. II, p. 418.

  8 Dodge, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 357.

  9 General Count C. von Lettow-Vorbeck, Der Krieg von 1806-7 (Berlin: 1892), p. 163.

  10 J. Colin, Les grandes batailles de l’histoire (Paris: 1915), p. 104.

  11 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No. 10744, p. 150.

  12 Ibid., No. 10756, p. 160.

  13 Ibid., No. 10757, p. 162.

  14 Lachouque and Brown, op. cit., p. 75.

  15 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No. 10818, p. 217.

  16 Ibid., No. 10920, pp. 292-96.

  17 Ibid., No. 10792, pp. 193-94.

  18 Ibid., No. 10815, p. 213.

  19 Ibid., No. 10920, p. 296.

  20 Ibid., No. 10558, p. 10.

  21 Ibid., No. 10941, pp. 309-10.

  22 Ibid., No. 10977, p. 334.

  23 Quoted by Camon, Précis, Vol. I, p. 174.

  24 Colin, op. cit., p. 107.

  25 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No. 11000, p. 348.

  26 Ibid., No. 10922, p. 344.

  27 Baron M. de Marbot, Mémoires (Paris: 1891), Vol. I, p. 297.

  28 Captain J. R. Coignet, The Notebooks of Captain Coignet, ed. by J. Fortescue (London: 1929), p. 132.

  29 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No. 11004, p. 350.

  30 General H. Bonal, La Manoeuvre d’Jéna (Paris: 1904), p. 421.

  31 Marbot, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 297-98.

  32 General Rapp’s account, included in Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 384.

  33 F. N. Maude, The Jena Campaign, 1806 (London: 1909), p. 156.

  34 Lachouque and Brown, op. cit., p. 79.

  35 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No. 11009, p. 357.

  36 Colin, op. cit., p. 110.

  37 Fairon, op. cit., p. 91.

  38 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No. 11060, pp. 393-94.

  39 Marbot, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 303.

  40 Quoted in Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 374.

  41 Ibid., p. 374.

  42 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No.
11009, p. 357.

  43 Petre, op. cit., p. 223.

  44 De Ségur, op. cit., pp. 302-03.

  45 Correspondance, Vol. XIII, No. 11094, p. 420.

  46 Marbot, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 234.

  47 Ibid., pp. 238-39.

  48 Fairon, op. cit., p. 107.

  49 C. V. Wedgwood, William the Silent (London: 1944), p. 132.

  PART NINE. WINTER WAR

  1 Madelin, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 307.

  2 General A. J. M. R. Savary, Mémoire sur l’Empire (Paris: 1828), Vol. III, p. 2.

  3 Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 7.

  4 Ibid., Vol. II, p. 14.

  5 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11379, p. 28.

  6 Baron S. J. de Comeau, Souvenirs des guerres d’Allemagne (London: 1900), p. 281.

  7 Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 3.

  8 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11399, pp. 39-40.

  9 Ibid., Nos. 11478 and 11544, pp. 93 and 134.

  10 Comte M. Dumas, Précis des événements militaires (Paris: 1826), Vol. XIX, p. 490.

  11 General J. Rapp, Mémoires écrit par lui-même (Paris: 1823), p. 118.

  12 Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 3.

  13 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11521, pp. 121-23.

  14 Marbot, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 327.

  15 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11520, p. 131.

  16 F. L. Petre, Napoleon’s Campaigns in Poland, 1806-7 (London: 1901), p. 128.

  17 General A. J. M. R. Savary, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 9 (f.n.).

  18 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11543, p. 133.

  19 Ibid., No. 11581, p. 162.

  20 Ibid., No. 11338, pp. 4-5.

  21 Ibid., No. 11533, p. 129.

  22 Ibid., Vol. XV, No. 12293, p. 23.

  23 Ibid., Vol. XIV, No. 11651, p. 207-08.

  24 Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 12-13.

  25 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11715, pp. 249-50.

  26 Ibid., No. 11709, p. 245.

  27 Jomini, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 355.

  28 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11750, p. 270.

  29 Ibid., No. 11772, p. 280.

  30 Ibid., No. 11770, p. 279.

  31 Ibid., No. 11777, p. 283.

  32 Ibid., No. 11773, p. 281.

  33 Ibid., No. 11780, pp. 284-87.

  34 Dodge, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 477-78.

  35 Marbot, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 335.

  36 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11796, pp. 293-96.

  37 Marbot, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 348.

  38 Lachouque and Brown, op. cit., p. 88.

  39 MacDonell, op. cit., pp. 146-47.

  40 Comte O. de St. Chamans, Mémoires (Paris: 1896), pp. 57-61.

  41 Chancellor E. D. Pasquier, Histoire de mon Temps (Paris: 1893), Vol. I, pp. 301-02 (f.n.).

  42 Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 17.

  43 Correspondance, Vol. XIV, No. 11899, p. 348.

  44 De Fézensac, op. cit., p. 149.

  PART TEN. SPRING RECOVERY

  1 A. Massena, Mémoires (Paris: 1848), Vol. V, p. 316.

  2 MacDonell, op. cit., p. 146.

  3 Ibid., pp. 146-47.

  4 Correspondance, Vol. XV, No. 12741, p. 321.

  5 Ibid., No. 12743, pp. 322-23.

  6 Ibid., No. 12744, p. 323.

  7 J. de Norvins, Souvenirs d’une histoire de Napoléon (Paris: 1897), Vol. III, p. 190.

  8 Petre, op. cit., p. 296.

  9 Savary, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 83.

  10 Correspondance, Vol. XV, No. 12750, p. 331.

  11 Ibid., No. 12749, p. 330.

  12 Ibid., No. 12753, pp. 332-33.

  13 Ibid., No. 12754, p. 333.

  14 Ibid., No. 12755, p. 334.

  15 Dumas, op. cit., Vol. XIX, p. 327.

  16 Camon, Précis, Vol. I, p. 234.

  17 Correspondance, Vol. XV, No. 12756, pp. 334-35.

  18 Marbot, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 364.

  19 Norvins, op. cit., Vol. III, pp. 204-05.

  20 Ibid., p. 205.

  21 Correspondance, Vol. XV, No. 12758, pp. 335-36.

  22 Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 18.

  23 Ibid., p. 18 (f.n.), quoting the Due de Rovigo.

  24 Quoted by Petre, op. cit., p. 337.

  25 Bourienne, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 18.

  26 Correspondance, Vol. XV, No. 12826, p. 372.

  27 Ibid., No. 12875, pp. 395-96.

  28 D. A. Bingham, Selection from the Letters and Despatches of Napoleon (London: 1884), Vol. II, p. 319.

  29 Correspondance, Vol. XV, No. 12866, p. 404.

 

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