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Chapter 5 IF. Lorraine Petre, Napoleon and the Archduke Charles (London: John Lane and Company, 1909), 197. bid., 111-112. '~ames R. Arnold, Crisis on the Danube: Napoleon's Austrian Camaim of 1809 (New York: Paragon House, 1990), 86. 4~bid., 88. 5~bid., 91. 6~abriel De Chenier, Histoire du Marechal Davout (Paris: Imprimeurs Editeurs, 1866), 336. 12~heodoreAyrault~od~e, N~Do~~oII, vol. 3, (New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904), 191-193. 14~his is from correspondence number 671 from Davout to Napoleon dated April 20, 1809. Louis N. Davout, Correspondance du Marechal Davout, Prince dlEckmuehl, vol 11, ed. Charles deMazade (Paris: Plon, 1885), 483. ls~avidG. Chandler, The Campaians of Napoleon (New York: MacMillan, 1966), 686. 16~his is noted in Napoleon's correspondence to Davout number 15100 on April 21, 1809. Napoleon Bonaparte, La Correspondance de Napoleon ler, vol. 18, (Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1858-1870), 575. 17sir Archibald Alison, Histom of Europe, vol. VIII (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860), 675.
20~his is from correspondence number 677 from Davout to Napoleon dated April 21, 1809. Davout, 486-487. 'owen Connelly, Blunderina To Glory: NaDOleOnls Militarv Cam~aians (Wilminqton, DE: Scholarly Resources Incorporated, 1987), 136. 3~hisis from Napoleon's message to Davout written at 2:30 A. M. on April 22, 1809. Napoleon Bonaparte, Corres~ondance de Naooleon ler, vol. 18 (Paris: Smprimerie Imperiale, 1858-1870), 496. 4~his is summarized from Napoleon, 496. '~ames R. Arnold, Crisis on the Danube: Nawoleon's Austrian Camaim of 1809 (New York: Paragon House, 1990), 151. 6~heodore Ayrault Dodge. Nawoleon, vol. 111, (New York: Houghton Mifflin' and Company, 1904), 207-209. 'F. Loraine Petre. NaDoleon and the Archduke Charles (London: John Lane Company, 1909), 177. "garon de Marbot, The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot (Wiltshire: Greenhill Books, 1988), 379. 13count York von Wartenburg, Nawleon As 'a General (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1902), 57-58. 14de Marbot, 404. avid G. Chandler, The Cam~aians of Napoleon (New York: MacMillan, 1966), 693.
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ABSTRACT MARSHAL LOUIS N. DAVOUT AN
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ?&%slsAPPROVALPAG
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CHAPTER 1 BUT WHAT ARE WE TO UNDERS
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the study of simple strategy and ta
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This fact becomes even more obvious
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the grand tactic. Operational warfa
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Burgundian countryside. He was born
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In1803 Davout was given command of
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then launch a major offensive into
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This attack'then ensured victory fo
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would actually go to war. However,
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Bluecher made four unsuccessful att
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fight entirely on his own. The batt
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title until two years after the bat
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Without hesitation Davout pushed fo
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most of his marshals, generals, the
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CHAPTER 3 THE AUSTRIANS ARE OUR WOR
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Finally, with Davout's information
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Austrian influence in Germany and I
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organization, always slow to act. M
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course of action. They now had a be
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elieved Prince Eugene and Marshal A
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22 March Davout had sent a message
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were designated VII Corps and consi
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and intelligence at the strategic l
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across the Danube. The Austrians al
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transmitted from Napoleon to Berthi
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Normally, the message dispatched by
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me that the best maneuver would be
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Berthier chose to overlook this cor
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Landshut were only one corps and no
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destroy him. On the eighteenth Char
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critical for the French. Napoleon r
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Throughout these ten days before th
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CHAPTER 5 YOU ONLY HAVE A CURTAIN O
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Gudin to support the movement of hi
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well. They bought Davout the necess
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The remainder of the Austrians then
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His tactical leadership was at its
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Napoleon's vision of the battlefiel
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against the French. His troops succ
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to surrender at 5:00 P.M. Now Charl
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pursuit on two parallel roads leadi
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important part in Davout's decision
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orders and directions. While Davout
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