Yet no other soldier of his time saw as he did how the potentialities of the new system could be ex- ploited no other soldier could have turned theory into action with such astonishing suc- cess. His early mastery of the art of war may cer- tainly be attributed to a careful study of the works of Marshal Saxe, Pierre de Bottrcet, Guibert and Gribeauval the regiments he com- manded had already begun to adapt themselves to the new style of warfare which had been imposed upon them first by the defeats of the Seven Years' War and then by the levee en masse of the French Republic. To give credit to the sources of Napoleon's inspiration is not, however, to deny his genius. A painstaking and perceptive student, he took over the best ideas of the eighteenth century masters-as he took over armies which had been created by the ancien regime and transformed by the Revolution-and he adopted them as his own. Napoleon was not an original military thinker. No two of those battles had been fought in exactly the same way yet not only do the first cam- paigns in Piedmont contain the essential characteristics of every other campaign, but the principles of war which gave rise to Napoleonic strategy are the principles of an earlier age.
Urn:lcp:campaignsofnapol0000davi:lcpdf:31f67504-1dfd-40e5-8d16-8661528ea1c0 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier campaignsofnapol0000davi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s28bj78r1w2 Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_autonomous true Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script LatinĠ.0029 Ocr_invalid_language eng Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l rus+kir+eng+lat+kaz+Latin+Cyrillic Old_pallet IA-NS-0001488 Page_number_confidence 95.59 Pages 1226 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220912190405 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 716 Scandate 20220824144620 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 5.The Campaigns of Napoleon David Chandler (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 6 gns) One day at St Helena, while fashioning his legend for the benefit of posterity, Napoleon announced, 'I have fought sixty battles, and I have learned nothing which I did not kno‘i, at the beginning.' The assertion contained more of the truth, perhaps, than he had intended. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:12:32 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40664613 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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