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title	:	Blundering to Glory : Napoleon's Military Campaigns
author	:	Connelly, Owen.
publisher	:	Scholarly Resources, Inc.
isbn10 | asin	:	0842027807
print isbn13	:	9780842027809
ebook isbn13	:	9780585304007
language	:	English
subject	Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Military leadership, France.--Arme--History--Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns, Military art and science.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	DC203.9.C647 1999eb
ddc	:	940.2/7
subject	:	Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Military leadership, France.--Arme--History--Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns, Military art and science.

Page i Blundering to Glory Napoleon's Military Campaigns

Page ii Napoleon in Italy, 1797 After a sketch by David Connie Olson

Page iii Blundering to Glory Napoleon's Military Campaigns Owen Connelly Revised Edition

Page iv 1999 by Scholarly Resources Inc. All rights reserved First published 1987 Printed and bound in the United States of America Scholarly Resources Inc. 104 Greenhill Avenue Wilmington, DE 19805-1897 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Connelly, Owen, 1929 Blundering to glory : Napoleon's military campaigns / Owen Connelly. rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8420-2779-3 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-8420-2780-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 17691821Military leadership. 2. Napoleonic Wars, 18001815Campaigns. 3. Military art and science. 4. France. ArmeeHistoryNapoleonic Wars, 18001815. I. Title. DC203.9 C647 1999 940.27dc21 98-50626 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for permanence of paper for printed library materials, Z39.48, 1984.

Page v About the Author OWEN CONNELLY, a leading American historian of the French Revolution-Napoleonic era, is McKissick Dial Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He was president of the Society for French Historical Studies in 1988 and is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. He served as an infantry officer in the Korean War and as an instructor at the U.S. Army Florida Ranger Camp. Professor Connelly is the author of Napoleon's Satellite Kingdoms (1965, 1969, 1990), The Gentle Bonaparte: A Biography of Joseph, Napoleon 's Elder Brother (1968), The Epoch of Napoleon (1972, 1978), The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era (1979, 1991, 1999), and other books.

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface to the Revised Edition xi List of Maps xv Introduction 1 1. Young Bonaparte: Character, Education, and Early Triumphs 7 2. The Scrambler Emerges: The First Italian Campaign, 179697 23 3. Flirting with Oblivion: Egypt, 179899 51 4. Over the Alps: The Second Italian Campaign, 1800 63 5. The Scrambler on the Danube: The Ulm-Austerlitz Campaign, 1805 77 6. Overkill in the East: The Jena-Auerstdt-Friedland Campaign, 180607 93 7. The "Affair of Spain": The Peninsular War, 1808181 117 8. The Wagram Campaign: The Austrian War, 1809 133 9. The Fattening: Compromises with the Old Order European Empire, 18091812 151 10. Heat, Ice, Snow, and Disaster: The Russian Campaign, 1812 157 11. The Kill: From Ltzen to Elba, 181314 183 12. The Glorious Irrelevance: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 201 Epilogue 219 Bibliography 223 Index 239

Page ix Acknowledgments It is a pleasure again to thank my friends who were kind enough to read and critique all or part of the manuscript of the first edition of this book (1987). Their generosity confirmed for me that the history profession still boasts scholars and natural gentlemen, the more because the list includes some of the world's most renowned experts on military history and theory, Napoleon, and Napoleonic warfare.

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