Author: ?douard Gachot
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875951761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Histoire Militaire De Mass?na
Author: ?douard Gachot
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875951761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875951761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Histoire Militaire de Masséna
Author: Edouard Gachot
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Category : Genoa (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Genoa (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Napoleon in Italy
Author: Phillip R. Cuccia
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument to the sufferings of townspeople during the 1796–1797 siege, when the city, held by Austrian troops, finally fell under French control. Two years later, Mantua was again barraged, this time by a combined Austrian and Russian army, which took it back after four months. In Napoleon in Italy, Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied aspects of these trying periods in Mantua’s history: siege warfare and the conditions it created inside the city. Drawing on underutilized military records in Austrian, French, and Italian archives, Cuccia delves into these important conflicts to integrate political and social issues with a campaign study. Unlike other military histories of the era, Napoleon in Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens who experienced the sieges firsthand. Cuccia also shows how the sieges had consequences long after they were over. The surrender and proposed court-martial of François-Philippe de Foissac-Latour, the French general in charge of Mantua in 1799, sheds new light on Napoleon’s disdain for defeat. Foissac-Latour faced Napoleon’s ire, expulsion from the army, and harsh public criticism. Napoleon in Italy is not only the story of Mantua’s strategic importance. Mantua also symbolized Napoleon’s voracious determination to win and Austria’s desperation to retain its possessions. By placing the sieges of Mantua in an eighteenth-century international context, Cuccia introduces readers to a broader understanding of siege warfare and of how the global impacts the local.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument to the sufferings of townspeople during the 1796–1797 siege, when the city, held by Austrian troops, finally fell under French control. Two years later, Mantua was again barraged, this time by a combined Austrian and Russian army, which took it back after four months. In Napoleon in Italy, Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied aspects of these trying periods in Mantua’s history: siege warfare and the conditions it created inside the city. Drawing on underutilized military records in Austrian, French, and Italian archives, Cuccia delves into these important conflicts to integrate political and social issues with a campaign study. Unlike other military histories of the era, Napoleon in Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens who experienced the sieges firsthand. Cuccia also shows how the sieges had consequences long after they were over. The surrender and proposed court-martial of François-Philippe de Foissac-Latour, the French general in charge of Mantua in 1799, sheds new light on Napoleon’s disdain for defeat. Foissac-Latour faced Napoleon’s ire, expulsion from the army, and harsh public criticism. Napoleon in Italy is not only the story of Mantua’s strategic importance. Mantua also symbolized Napoleon’s voracious determination to win and Austria’s desperation to retain its possessions. By placing the sieges of Mantua in an eighteenth-century international context, Cuccia introduces readers to a broader understanding of siege warfare and of how the global impacts the local.
Napoleon's Italian Campaigns
Author: Frederick C. Schneid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313010609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars raged in Italy for 23 years. In that time, no fewer than eight campaigns involving hundred of thousands of troops were mounted in the Italian peninsula, as France and Austria struggled over this secondary, but still vitally important theater of war. As Frederick Schneid demonstrates in this groundbreaking work, control of Italy was rightly seen by Napoleon as an important means of applying strategic pressure on the Austrians, while simultaneously providing security for France's vulnerable southern flank. As the first in-depth consideration of the struggle for strategically key region, this book places the Italian campaigns into their proper historical context. Beginning with a geo-strategic overview of the Italian peninsula and its place in French and Austrian calculations, Schneid moves on to a careful consideration of the major campaigns that began in 1805, 1809, and 1813. These include studies of the battles at Caldiero, Wagram, and Mincio. The book also provides appendices with complete orders of battle for each campaign.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313010609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars raged in Italy for 23 years. In that time, no fewer than eight campaigns involving hundred of thousands of troops were mounted in the Italian peninsula, as France and Austria struggled over this secondary, but still vitally important theater of war. As Frederick Schneid demonstrates in this groundbreaking work, control of Italy was rightly seen by Napoleon as an important means of applying strategic pressure on the Austrians, while simultaneously providing security for France's vulnerable southern flank. As the first in-depth consideration of the struggle for strategically key region, this book places the Italian campaigns into their proper historical context. Beginning with a geo-strategic overview of the Italian peninsula and its place in French and Austrian calculations, Schneid moves on to a careful consideration of the major campaigns that began in 1805, 1809, and 1813. These include studies of the battles at Caldiero, Wagram, and Mincio. The book also provides appendices with complete orders of battle for each campaign.
The Cambridge Modern History
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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The Cambridge Modern History
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Publisher:
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Nelson's Encyclopeaedia
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopaedia
Author: John Huston Finley
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British Museum
Publisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Publisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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