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The Emperor’s Tipping Point: Napoleon at Eylau

jberry — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:01:14 +0000

Forget Waterloo. Napoleon's decline was clearly signaled by his failures at the Battle of Eylau eight years earlier.

Napoleon’s Total War

HistoryNet Staff — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:35:39 +0000

When Revolutionary France declared war on the Austrian empire in the spring of 1792, its leaders promised a short, sweet and victorious campaign. Instead, 1792 marked the beginning of a long, grinding, hideously bloody series of wars that would drag on in every state in Europe and last, with scant interruption, until the final defeat [...]

Battle of Jena: Napoleon’s Double Knock-out Punch

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:46:44 +0000

Napoleon returned to his headquarters believing he had just crushed the main Prussian army at Jena. He was wrong. At Naumburg, 18 miles to the north, Marshal Louis Nicholas Davout was facing 2-to-1 odds against Duke Carl of Brunswick's troops.

By James W. Shosenberg

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of the Pyramids

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:39:04 +0000

The enemy that confronted the French at Embabeh, Egypt, more than 200 years ago was as merciless as the desert they had just crossed--but the Mamelukes did not have a commander like Napoleon Bonaparte.

By John Dellinger

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Rivoli

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:33:50 +0000

If his attack succeeded, Austrian Feldzeugmeister Jószef Alvintzy Freiherr de Berberek expected to surround and destroy France's Army of Italy -- and its 28-year-old commander, General Napoleon Bonaparte.

By James W. Shosenberg

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Quatre Bras

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:27:06 +0000

Just after midnight, June 16, 1815, the citizens of Brussels were rudely awakened by the deep rumble of drums, the blare of trumpets and the shrill skirl of bagpipes. Half groggy, half apprehensive, citizens went to their windows in time to see soldiers spilling out into the darkened streets. Galvanized by the martial airs, men [...]

General Napoleon Bonaparte’s Italian Campaign

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:22:05 +0000

The newly appointed 26-year-old commander in chief of the French Army of Italy arrived at his headquarters in Nice on March 27, 1796. Scar-lipped Jean Mathieu Philibert SŽrurier, adventurous Pierre Franois Charles Augereau, and calculating AndrŽ MassŽna were all smirking as they prepared to meet this political soldier who had gained his rank not by [...]

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:12:46 +0000

Facing a formidable coalition, the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte I devised a plan to defeat his counterparts from Austria and Russia in one swift campaign.

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:11:55 +0000

When French Vice Adm. Pierre de Villeneuve emerged from Cadiz with his 33 mammoth warships, Britain's Royal Navy awaited him with only 27, often smaller, ships of the line. But the British also had Lord Horatio Nelson.

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar — Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson Did His Duty

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:11:53 +0000

Horatio Nelson's two-column charge into the Franco-Spanish line was risky, but it won him the battle -- at the cost of his life.