Download or read book Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia Classic Reprint written by Gaspard Gourgaud and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia Four editions of the work we are about to exa mine have already appeared, and our remarks upon it, though long since prepared, are only now emerging from the port-folio. Why has their publication been so long delayed? And why are they published now? To these enquiries, which the reader may not unreasonably make, we will reply in a few words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia Or a Critical Examination of Count Philip De S gur s Work written by Baron Gaspard Gourgaud and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia written by Gaspard Gourgaud and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia: Or a Critical Examination of Count Philip De Segur's Work In relation to military facts in the work we are to examine, they are confined to a succession of unexact recitals, of pie tu res without truth, of little anecdotes, for the most part forged, or frequently literally copied from some writings, which have almost uniformly been dictated by a spirit of malevolence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Napoleon s Invasion of Russia written by Hereford Brooke George and published by Janus Publishing Company Lim. This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from innumerable sources, this book provides a concise history of the reasons for, the campaigns, and the conclusion of Napoleon's ill-fated attempt to conquer Russia. Unlike other accounts, this book offers a more accessible version of events and separates fact from fiction to provide an insight into Napoleon's motives and reasons for his eventual failure.
Download or read book Napoleon s Russian Campaign of 1812 Classic Reprint written by Edward Foord and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 The effects of the Continental system varied in different parts of Europe, but everywhere they were bad. France, wealthy in herself, and with the material advantage of being able to maintain her overgrown armies at free quarters in foreign countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Narrative of Events During the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the Retreat of the French Army 1812 Classic Reprint written by Robert Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Narrative of Events During the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Retreat of the French Army, 1812 Among these considerations a principal one was that he had been in close personal intimacy with the Emperor Alexander, highly trusted and honoured by him. The disclosure of facts and Opinions to which he could only have access through this confidence of a generous friendship would have prejudicially affected the relations of the Emperor with his great nobility and, moreover, it would have given pain to some with whom he had himself relations of attachment and esteem formed by the fellowship of danger among the moving scenes of military service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon s Invasion of Russia Classic Reprint written by R. G. Burton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon's Invasion of Russia The military lessons of the Russian campaign are numerous. In its general features, In the grandeur of its conception, and in some respects in its execution, as well as in its abysmal end, this gigantic invasion was splendid and awe-inspiring. Who can contemplate un moved the sublime spectacle of that mighty human stream pouring across Europe into Russia, fighting its way to Moscow, and its shattered remnants struggling back across the Berezina, in whose icy flood so many thousand lives were quenched in circumstances Of tragic horror. The dramatic figure of the Great Emperor, standing in the snow during the retreat, dominating the situation by the mere terror of his personality, will stand out for ever on the page of history. The fortitude in the retreat of Ney, that warrior of transcendent courage, who, asked where was the rearguard, replied in all truth, I am the rearguard and in response to a summons to surrender, A Marshal of France never surrenders furnishes one of the finest episodes of this dramatic epoch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia written by Gaspard Gourgaud and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia Four editions of the work we are about to examine have already appeared, and our remarks upon it, though long since prepared, are only now emerging from the port-folio. Why has their publication been so long delayed? and why are they published now? To these enquiries, which the reader may not unreasonably make, we will reply in a few words. The size of Mr. de Segur's work, its high price, the portraits and embellishments which have been successively added to it, seemed to warrant the belief that its circulation would be confined to a class of readers who, by their acquaintance with the men and facts treated of, would be enabled to judge of it correctly for themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon s Campaign in Poland 1806 7 written by F. Loraine Petre and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon's Campaign in Poland, 1806-7: A Military History of Napoleon's First War With Russia; Verified From Unpublished Official Documents There is, it is true, an outline of it in Alison's History of Europe but that is hardly sufficient for the student of military history, and there is no good general map attached to it. Sir Robert Wilson's account of it is not available in every library, and it is not very accurate in many respects. The English text-books on military history, as a rule, scarcely allude to the campaign. The brief sketch of it in Adams's Great Campaigns is, unfortunately, marred by inaccuracies and misprints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book 1812 written by Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 1812: Napoleon I in Russia He returned from a second Asiatic journey to settle at Munich for three years and here he built his first Open air studio. If you are to paint out-door scenes, he says, your models must sit in the Open and so he fashioned a movable room on wheels, running on a circular tramway, and Open to sun and air on the side nearest the centre Of the circle, where the model stood. The artist, in fact, worked in a huge box with one side out, while the thing he saw was in the full glare of day and by means ofa simple mechanical contrivance he made his room follow the shifting light. After a long rest at Munich, he was impatient for action once more, and in 1873 he set Off for British India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon s Invasion of Russia written by Theodore Ayrault Dodge and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great historian examines Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia in 1812. This classic includes the following chapters: I. The Invasion of Russia (1811 to June, 1812) II. Smolensk and Valutino (August, 1812) III. Borodino (September 1-7, 1812) IV. Moscow (Sep 8 to Oct 19, 1812) V. Maloyaroslavez (Oct 19 to Nov 14, 1812) VI. The Beresina (Nov 15, 1812, to Jan 31, 1813)
Download or read book The Physiology of War written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Physiology of War: Napoleon and the Russian Campaign IT is now three years since the writer of this introduction had the pleasure of bringing be fore American readers that curiously interesting book by Count Leo Tolsto'i', My Religion, a work which, perhaps more than any other pro duction of its author, has excited wide specula tion and. Discussion. Up to that time Count Tolsto'i' was practically unknown to readers this side the Atlantic. His name was unfamiliar, the details of his remarkable life were not ac cessible in any dictionary of biography. In three years, what a change! Now no less than fourteen of his works have been translated and published in this country; the minutest particulars concerning his person ality, his Opinions, and his mode of life are re ported with the utmost fidelity. His grand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia written by Baron Gaspard Gourgaud and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Russia Against Napoleon written by Dominic Lieven and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed. This is the first history to explore in depth Russia's crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, re-creating the epic battle between two empires as never before. Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe; the consequences of which could not have been more important. Ultimately this book shows, memorably and brilliantly, Russia embarking on its strange, central role in Europe's existence, as both threat and protector - a role that continues, in all its complexity, into our own lifetimes.
Download or read book Retreat of the French Army from Russia written by Ernst Von Pfuel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Retreat of the French Army From Russia: Being a Most Interesting Detail of the Important Events and Dreadful Sufferings of the Allied Forces, Commanded by Bonaparte, During Their Retreat From Moscow Napoleon had promised his soldiers to lead them to Moscow. There, said he, will be the end of your labours and your. Efforts; there a glorious Peace and every species of enjoyment await you. The Emperor of the French, always dexterous in profiting by the first. Moment of illusion and terror to enforce what he terms a Peace, bad directed all his operations in the intention of quickly seiz ing Moscow, for he was no less confident than his soldiers, that it was in that capital a Peace was to be concluded. His calculation was just to a certain degree - Moscow did fall into his power. Yet there wasaslight error; Peace was not concluded, which did not give a very favourable turn to his deep laid schemes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book 1812 Napoleon 1 in Russia written by Vassili Verestshagan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign (French: Campagne de Russie), began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar Alexander I of Russia to cease trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace. The official political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the threat of Russia. Napoleon named the campaign the Second Polish War to gain favor with the Poles and provide a political pretext for his actions. The Grande Armée was a very large force, numbering 680,000 soldiers (including 300,000 of French departments). Through a series of long marches Napoleon pushed the army rapidly through Western Russia in an attempt to bring the Russian army to battle, winning a number of minor engagements and a major battle at Smolensk in August. Napoleon hoped the battle would mean an end of the march into Russia, but the Russian army slipped away from the engagement and continued to retreat into Russia, while leaving Smolensk to burn. Plans Napoleon had made to quarter at Smolensk were abandoned, and he pressed his army on after the Russians. As the Russian army fell back, Cossacks were given the task of burning villages, towns and crops. This was intended to deny the invaders the option of living off the land. These scorched-earth tactics greatly surprised and disturbed the French, as the willingness of the Russians to destroy their own territory and harm their own people was difficult for the French to comprehend. The actions forced the French to rely on a supply system that was incapable of feeding the large army in the field. Starvation and privation compelled French soldiers to leave their camps at night in search of food. These men were frequently confronted by parties of Cossacks, who captured or killed them.
