Napoleonic wars

Background

In the summer of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte embarked on his most ambitious campaign, the invasion of Russia. The Grand Army consisting of over 600,000 soldiers commenced the invasion of Russia under the personal command of Napoleon. While Napoleon was away,

Napoleon for all his faults and final defeat at Waterloo remains in military history a great general. He is a man credited for having mastered the principles of war. Naploeon was not alone in his sucess and along with him were a string of generals who executed his plans. One of the most famous

While undergoing the 41st Staff Course at Wellington an interesting case study of  Hitler and Napoleon came up in a module. I will now reproduce the discussion in the succeeding paragraphs. Firstly both Hitler and Napoleon came to power  with popular support and both became absolute