At 24, Napoleon was in command of artillery at the siege of Toulon, and twenty two years later ''the ogre was safely caged at last, and an exhausted Europe settled down once more to attempt to return to former ways of life and government.'' The creation of La Grande Armee, and the campaigns in Northern Italy, Egypt and Syria, Spain and Portugal, Germany, Austria, Poland and Russia, are all extensively described and analyzed in a study with a primary interest for the special reader of European and military history. In this engrossing, (The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched. The Campaigns of Napoleon, first published in 1966 by Macmillan Publishing Co, is a work by British historian David Chandler which serves as a complete. One follows the meteoric rise of Napoleone di Buonaparte of Corsica to Captain, General, First Consul and Emperor Napoleon I in barely more than a decade. The Campaigns of Napoleon is an exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON by David Chandler THE MIND AND METHOD OF HISTORYS GREATEST SOLDIER Published by The Macmilan Company in 1966- First Edition. Read The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. TOWARD THE SUMMIT: THE CONSPIRATOR AND PEACEMAKER The coup d’tat of Brumaire and the Italian Campaign of 1800 23.

It is only to be regretted that the style is not more graceful and less the product of academia, perhaps inevitable in a work of such exhaustive scholarship. Chandler has a feeling for and a grasp of time and movement which makes past events readable and relevant. The Campaigns of Napoleon is in many ways a tour de force of historical writing.

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