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Author Currie, Laurence, 1867-1934, author.

Title The bâton in the knapsack : new light on Napoleon and his marshals / by Laurence Currie
Published [San Francisco?] : Pickle Partners Publishing, [2015]
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Contents Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- I -- Early Years, Toulon, and Vendémiaire -- II -- The Campaign of Italy -- III -- Egypt and Syria -- IV -- Brumaire and Marengo -- V -- The Consulate -- VI -- The Empire and the Marshals -- VII -- Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland -- VIII -- Spain and Wagram -- IX -- Moscow and Leipzig -- X -- The Campaign of France, the First Abdication, and Elba -- XI -- The Hundred Days and Waterloo -- XII -- St. Helena -- XIII -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- Marshals present at the Principal Napoleonic Battles -- PORTRAITS
Summary Annotation THE purpose of this book is to sketch briefly the career of Napoleon, especially his relations with his marshals, and to consider how far the marshals were responsible for the rise of the Napoleonic Empire and how some of them at any rate contributed to its fall.It was a saying among the rank and file of the armies of revolutionary France that every soldier carried in his knapsack the bâton of a marshal. This was to prove truer than is usual with such dicta; for more than half of Napoleon's marshals did actually arise from the ranks.In reviewing the period, the student of history can hardly fail to be fascinated by the deeds of valour casting a halo of romance over the entire epoch and to feel that wars productive of so many heroes can hardly have been fought in vain.Mechanical inventions have since degraded the art of war, robbed it of all glamour and added greatly to its horrors. Cavalry charges, such as those which proved decisive at Marengo and at Friedland, are now impossible; but, so long as mankind takes any interest in the past, the story of these mighty contests will always stir the imagination and perhaps excite the envy of future generations
Notes "Text originally published in 1934 under the same title"--Copyright page
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Notes Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 12, 2017)
Subject Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Relations with marshals
SUBJECT Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 fast
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Relations with marshals
SUBJECT France -- History, Military -- 1789-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051433
Subject France
Genre/Form Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786253729
1786253720