Napoleon Volume 1; a History of the Art of War From the beginning of the French revolution to the end of the eighteenth century, with a detailed account of the wars of the French revolution - Softcover

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault

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ISBN 10: 1236337328 ISBN 13: 9781236337320

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...was on the Sieg and Lahn, watching the debouches of Diisseldorf and Coblenz. Ten thousand men garrisoned Mainz and Ehrenbreitstein. Later, when, in consequence of Bonaparte's victories in Italy, Wurmser was ordered to the Tyrol with twenty-five thousand veterans to take command there, Charles was given control of both armies, and this lent him a certain advantage over the French commanders, each of whom was probably bound, by hard and fast instructions, to a previously settled and not cooperative plan of campaign. The Army of the Rhine and Moselle was under Moreau. He had succeeded Pichegru, who, suspected of treachery, though no evidence was forthcoming, had retired to his estates. It had eighty thousand men, and leaned its right on Hiiningen, while its centre lay behind the Queich, and its left THE FACING ARMIES. 313 was near Saarbriick. The Army of the Sambre and Meuse under Jourdan, equally strong, had its centre and right along the left bank of the Rhine from Cologne to St. Wendel in the Nahe country; and its left wing, under Kleber, of twentytwo thousand men, lay in a fortified camp at Diisseldorf. There are numerous crossings of the Rhine, of which the principal ones are Hiiningen, Breisach, Strasburg, Selz near Rastadt, Lauterburg, Germersheim near Philipsburg, Speyer, Mannheim, Worms, Mainz. At many other places the river can be spanned by pontoon-bridges. The only fortified bridge held by the French was the one at Diisseldorf; the Austrians had one at Mainz, and one at Mannheim. The first Austrian plan was to push on Treves, and having thus secured a foothold on the Moselle, to file up and down the left bank of the Rhine, taking each French army in reverse. But when Wurmser was withdrawn with his veteran divisions to meet the Italian danger, the a...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1236337328
• ISBN 13: 9781236337320
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178