JOMINIs LIFE OF NAPOLEON: Volume 1

Content Volume I EARLY LIFE OF NAPOLEON; From his Birth to his Appointment to Command the Army of Italy. CAMPAIGN OF 1796 IN ITALY; From the Beginning of the Campaign to the Peace in Tolentino. CAMPAIGN OF 1798 IN AUSTRIA; From the Crossing of the Tagliamento to the Peace of Campo-Formio. EXPEDITION TO EGYPT; Military Operations in 1798 and Part of 1799. CAMPAIGN OF 1799; Military Operations in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. CAMPAIGNS OF 1800 AND 1801; From Napoleons Return from Egypt to the Peace of Amiens. APPENDIX: THE BONAPARTE FAMILY "Jominis influence on military thinking was huge and lasted long after his death; for many military men, Jomini was the translator of the secrets of Napoleons genius. If Napoleon was the god of war, wrote Antoine Grouard, then Jomini was his prophet". To make war into a science, Jomini set himself the task of establishing principles which were as fixed as the laws of physics. For him, the recipe for victory was "to mobilise, at a decisive point and at the right moment, more forces than the enemy". As with many theoreticians of war, he had a tendency to apply principles where there were was sometimes only intuition, chance or accident (Lee Kennett).