JOMINIs LIFE OF NAPOLEON: Volume 4

Content Volume IV CAMPAIGN OF 1812 IN RUSSIA; From the Evacuation of Moscow to the End of the Campaign SPRING CAMPAIGN OF 1813; From the Declaration of War by Prussia. to the General Coalition. AUTUMN CAMPAIGN OF 1813; From the Renewal of Hostilities to the Retreat on the Rhine. CAMPAIGN OF 1814; From the Retreat on the Rhine to the Abdication of Fontainebleau. CAMPAIGN OF 1815; From Napoleons Return from Elba to his Exile to St. Hellena. "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).