Napoleon's Campaign in Poland, 1806-7: A Military History of Napoleon's First War With Russia; Verified From Unpublished Official Documents (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)F. Loraine Petre
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Excerpt from Napoleon's Campaign in Poland, 1806-7: A Military History of Napoleon's First War With Russia; Verified From Unpublished Official Documents
This volume owes its inception to the difficulty experienced by its author in finding, English, any satisfactory history of a campaign which he felt could not be less interesting than its predecessors of Austerlitz and Jena.
There is, it is true, an outline of it in Alison's History of Europe; but that is hardly sufficient for the student of military history, and there is no good general map attached to it. Sir Robert Wilson's account of it is not available in every library, and it is not very accurate in many respects.
The English text-books on military history, as a rule, scarcely allude to the campaign. The brief sketch of it in Adam's Great Campaigns is, unfortunately, marred by inaccuracies and misprints.
In French, the best history of the campaign is contained in vols. xvii.-xix. of Comte Mathieu Dumas' admirable Précis des Evènements Militaires, etc. It was, however, written at a time(1826) when many sources of information, now easily accessible, were closed to most writers.
Thiers' Histoire du Consulat et de l'-Empire is not more reliable in regard to 1806-7 than it is in the case of Waterloo.
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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.
This volume owes its inception to the difficulty experienced by its author in finding, English, any satisfactory history of a campaign which he felt could not be less interesting than its predecessors of Austerlitz and Jena.
There is, it is true, an outline of it in Alison's History of Europe; but that is hardly sufficient for the student of military history, and there is no good general map attached to it. Sir Robert Wilson's account of it is not available in every library, and it is not very accurate in many respects.
The English text-books on military history, as a rule, scarcely allude to the campaign. The brief sketch of it in Adam's Great Campaigns is, unfortunately, marred by inaccuracies and misprints.
In French, the best history of the campaign is contained in vols. xvii.-xix. of Comte Mathieu Dumas' admirable Précis des Evènements Militaires, etc. It was, however, written at a time(1826) when many sources of information, now easily accessible, were closed to most writers.
Thiers' Histoire du Consulat et de l'-Empire is not more reliable in regard to 1806-7 than it is in the case of Waterloo.
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.
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