From Boulogne to Austerlitz Napoleon's: Campaign of I805 (Classic Reprint)

Napoleon s Campaign of 1805 CHAPTER I EUROPE IN 1804-1805 The Peace of A miens The Invasion of England German Views on Invasion The Third Coalition Villeneuve s Failure Sea Power and Preparation for War Patriotic Spirit In sketching the events which led up to the campaign of A usterhtz, in 1805, it is necessary to go back to May The Peace 1803, when the Peace of A miens came to an end. of A miens That peace could probably in no case have remained lasting. The continued occupation of Malta and Alexandria by England ;the toleration of a scurrilous press, directed against the First Consul, in London; the British naval preparations all these were calculated to arouse the hostility of Napoleon, while territorial acquisitions by France in Genoa and Piedmont, and the character of the First Consul himself, were not factors which made for the maintenance of peace. The renewal of hostilities with England marked the initiation of Napoleon sproject for the invasion of that The country; for this purpose the Grand Army Invasion of was assembled on the shores of the Channel, England nd a corps imder Bernadotte was stationed inH
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