JOMINIs LIFE OF NAPOLEON: Volume 3

Content Volume III CAMPAIGN OF 1809 IN AUSTRIA; From the Declaration of War by Austria to the Treaty of Vienna. CAMPAIGN OF 18009 IN SPAIN; From the Assault of Oporto to the Siege of Gerona. CAMPAIGN OF 1810 IN SPAIN; From the Siege of Gerona to the Lines of Torres Vedras. CAMPAIGN OF 1811 IN SPAIN; From Soults Capture of Badajos to its recapture by Wellington. CAMPAIGN OF 1812 IN RUSSIA; Part I: Advance to Moscow "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).