Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia--1806
Author | : Francis Loraine Petre |
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 |
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Author | : Francis Loraine Petre |
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 |
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Author | : Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2011-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1908692766 |
At the beginning of 1806, Napoleon could feel rather satisfied with his conquests, although the Russian Bear had been brutally beaten and the Austrian Eagle damaged beyond repair after the carnage of Austerlitz. However lurking to the north were the inheritors of Frederick the Great’s legacy of Rossbach and Leuthen, their sullen neutrality during 1805 had been bought by the price of the annexation of Hanover, the Prince-elector of which sat on the British throne. It would only be a matter of time before the Prussian army tested their might against Napoleon’s legions, young Prussians could be found outside the French embassy in Berlin sharpening their swords against its steps, Queen Luise was a vocal focus for the war party. With the most positive expectations for the campaign, the lumbering Prussian army, led by veterans in their sixties, seventies and even eighties, groped to find Napoleon and his much faster moving corps d’armée. Napoleon’s Marshals and generals were mostly, apart from a few notable exceptions, one bordering on treason, at the top of their professional competency. Few if any however would have expected the campaign to unfold as it did, as Napoleon actively searched for the main Prussian army, he found and destroyed a significant portion of the army at Jena, a single of his corps, under Davout, faced and defeated the majority at Auerstädt. What followed thereafter was the most relentless pursuit of the Napoleonic Wars, combined with a number of capitulations which did not honour to Prussian arms. Prussia was defeated completely, with a scant regard to future relations with this state, Napoleon dismembered the state, imposed war reparations that would have made the French at Compiegne, a century, later blush, allowed his soldiers to pillage on an unheard of scale. Not that he himself was immune to the tendency to take what might allowed, he took amongst other trophies, Frederick the Great’s own sword. Reduced to a second rate power Prussia, occupied by French soldiers, would look to the crumbs that Napoleon might hand out and hope that other powers might topple the mighty Napoleon. As with all of Petre’s books on the Napoleonic period, his work is well written, scrupulously researched and balanced. We have taken the liberty as diacritics appear in Petre’s book to change Blucher to Blücher. Author – Francis Lorraine Petre OBE - (1852–1925) Plans – ALL included – 7 total Portraits and Illustrations – ALL included - 19 total
Author | : FRANCIS LORAINE. PETRE |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781033371213 |
Author | : Francis Loraine Petre |
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Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 |
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Author | : F. Loraine Petre |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494153106 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.
Author | : Francis Loraine Petre |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780331544770 |
Excerpt from Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia 1806 The majority of the illustrations are reproduced from works in the unique Napoleon collection of Mr. A. M. Broadley of The Knapp, Bridport, from whom Mr. John Lane obtained courteous per mission to utilise them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : F. Loraire Petre |
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Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1907 |
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Author | : Dr. Ernest F. Henderson |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786251892 |
Includes 32 Illustrations and 6 maps. BLÜCHER is chiefly known to English readers as the man who came to Wellington’s aid at Waterloo. The object of the present volume is to show that he had a separate existence of his own and performed other great deeds in the cause that are equally deserving of praise. Strange that he has never been made the subject of an English biography and that of his German lives none have been translated into English! The present work cannot pretend altogether to fill the gap, as the plan of the series, if I have understood it rightly, is to treat the movement as fully as the man. I shall feel a certain satisfaction if I can succeed in establishing Blücher in his rightful position, as the peer of Wellington in all that concerns the overthrow of Napoleon. “You forget Wellington’s Spanish campaigns,” I shall be told. “You in turn forget,” I shall answer, “that Blücher was the one progressive, inspiring element among the leaders of the allied armies from the year 1813 on.” Without Blücher’s decision to cross the Elbe at Wartenburg there would have been no battle of Leipzig; without his cutting loose from Schwarzenberg in March, 1814, there would have been no closing in of the allies on Paris; without his brave endurance at Ligny in spite of the non-arrival of the promised reinforcements, Wellington would have been overwhelmed at Quatre-Bras and there would have been no Waterloo.
Author | : Karen Hagemann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2015-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316193977 |
In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813–15). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815, which occupied a key position in German national historiography and memory. Although these conflicts have been analyzed in thousands of books and articles, much of the focus has been on the military campaigns and alliances. Karen Hagemann argues that we cannot achieve a comprehensive understanding of these wars and their importance in collective memory without recognizing how the interaction of politics, culture, and gender influenced these historical events and continue to shape later recollections of them. She thus explores the highly contested discourses and symbolic practices by which individuals and groups interpreted these wars and made political claims, beginning with the period itself and ending with the centenary in 1913.
Author | : Frederick C. Schneid |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0275980960 |
Poised to strike at England in the summer of 1805, Napoleon found himself facing a coalition of European powers determined to limit his territorial ambitions. Still, in less than one hundred days, Napoleon's armies marched from the English Channel to Central Europe, crushing the armies of Austria and Russia—the first step in his conquest of Europe. In this telling new account, Schneid demonstrates how this was possible. Schneid details how Napoleon's victory over the Third Coalition was the product of years of diplomatic preparation and the formation of French alliances. He played upon the prevailing conditions of the European state system and the internal politics of the Holy Roman Empire to improve France's strategic position. This war must be understood in the context of the French Revolution and its influence on major and minor European states. In some cases, Napoleonic diplomacy returned to France's traditional and historic relationships; in others, he capitalized upon longstanding competition and animosities to gather allies and create wedges. Schneid approaches the campaign from a broad diplomatic, economic, and military perspective, including not only the French perspective, but the points of view of the other powers involved as well. This telling account reveals that the road to Vienna was paved long before Napoleon's armies marched upon the enemies arrayed against them.