JOMINIs LIFE OF NAPOLEON: Volume 2

Content Volume II CAMPAIGNS FROM 1802 TO 1804; From the Rupture of the Peace of Amiens to the Establishment of the Empire. CAMPAIGN OF 1805; From the Formation of the Third Coalition to the Treaties of Vienna and Presburg. CAMPAIGN OF 1806; From The Rupture of the Peace of Presburg to the Destruction of the Prussian Army. CAMPAIGN OF 1807; From the Arrival of the Russians on the Vistula to the Treaty of Tilsit. CAMPAIGN OF 1808; From the Treaty of Tilsit to the Invasion of Portugal. PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS OF 1807 AND 1808; From the Invasion of Portugal to the Treaty of Evacuation. NAPOLEONS CAMPAIGN OF 1808 IN SPAIN; From the Evacuation of Portugal to its Re-invasion by Soult. "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).