On War
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- Bonaparte advances on Austria from Italy pp. 180-182
When in March 1797 Bonaparte and the Army of Italy advanced from the Tagliamento to meet the Archduke Charles, their object was to force a d…
- Frederick the Great launches preemptive war pp. 211-213
When Frederick the Great perceived in 1756 that war was unavoidable and that he was lost unless he could forestall his enemies, it became a…
- Frederick the Great wins the Battle of Liegnitz pp. 222-226
The battle of Liegnitz in 1760 is another case in point. Frederick the Great won this battle because during the night he moved from a positi…
- Battle of Valmy and Hochkirch pp. 244-249
The cannonade of Valmy decided more than the battle of Hochkirch.
- Archduke Charles fights Moreau at Neresheim pp. 266-270
A case in point would be the battle of Neresheim. On 11 August 1796 Archduke Charles fought Moreau in the Rauhe Alp for no other reason than…
- Battle of Hanau and Bonaparte's Rhine Crossing pp. 289-292
Bonaparte would never have been able to return across the Rhine in 1813 with even the thirty to forty thousand men still left to him after t…
- Battles of Jena, Regensburg, Leipzig, and Belle-Alliance pp. 289-292
There are many examples of such brilliant effects of major victories and first-rate pursuits in the Napoleonic Wars. It should be enough to…
- Birth of Carl von Clausewitz pp. 9-15
Born in 1780, he had joined the Prussian army at the age of twelve. One year later he took part in the Rhine campaign against the French.
- Clausewitz captured at the Battle of Auerstadt pp. 9-15
In 1806 he was captured after the battle of Auerstadt and spent the next year in France and Switzerland.
- Death of Clausewitz from cholera pp. 9-15
Unfortunately, when he died of cholera in 1831, only the revision of the first chapter of Book I had been completed.
- French Assembly declares war on Austria pp. 25-28
In the previous year the French legis- lative assembly had declared war on Austria, with whom Prussia had recently concluded a defensive all…
- Clausewitz First Encounters War as Lance Corporal pp. 25-28
Clausewitz, the son of a retired lieutenant who held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service, first encountered war in 1793 as…
- Campaigns of 1793 and 1794 Shape Political Understanding pp. 25-28
Finally, the campaigns of 1793 and 1794 set Clausewitz on the path of recognizing war as a political phenomenon.
- Prussians defeat the French, secure the Rhine pp. 25-28
They defeated the French repeatedly in Alsace and the Saar, and captured thousands of prisoners; when the fighting ended in 1795, they contr…
- War of the Austrian Succession begins pp. 73-76
he announces that he will avoid in this work examples antedating the War of the Austrian Succession, the beginning of which in 1740 coincide…