Tactics and the experience of battle in the age of napoleon on jstor. Osprey elite series 159 french napoleonic infantry tactics 17921815. Together they would win unsurpassed victories and napoleons strategies, campaigns, and style of. Each division and battalion also had the ability to act on its own, with cavalry, infantry, artillery and a variety of staff. As officer, general, and later emperor, he helped france to singlehandedly take on the rest of.
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As military historian jonathon riley states, strategy is the. The series continues napoleon against russia napoleon s last gamble peninsular war ii. In his battles as in his campaigns, napoleon depended on speed, mass, and aggressive maneuver. Napoleon bonaparte as a general wa2 liberty university. The fire at moscow was a critical juncture in the invasion of russia.
The soldiers, once looting began, had their fill of every necessity and luxury they could fathom. Napoleon himself didnt get involved in tactics, except when it came to the employment of artillery. French napoleonic infantry tactics 17921815 elite pdf. The pdfs in this database are not transcribed into text, so you may need to search for keywords with unusual spelling for earlier copies. Napoleons armys tactics came from a shotgun marriage of royal army with revolutionary improvisation. Primary sources napoleon and the french revolution. The waterloo campaign 15 june 8 july 1815 online powerpoint to pdf converter was fought between the. What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another. What was it like to be a soldier on a napoleonic battlefield.