The Invasion Of France 1814 1914

Author : Captain Frederick William O. Maycock, D.S.O.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908902573

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The Invasion of France, 1814 by Captain Frederick William O. Maycock, D.S.O. Pdf

Beset along the northern border of France by enemies that out-numbered him by at least five to one, where ordinary generals might have despaired, Napoleon went on to win a remarkable series of victories that recalled the rapidity of his brightest early campaigns. Although not enough to turn the tide of the Allies march on Paris, they are hugely important for the methods used by the Emperor in his last campaign before Waterloo. Turning on isolated parts of the Prussian Field Marshal Blücher’s army, composed of both Russians and Prussians, Napoleon won the battles of Champaubert, Montmirail, Château-Thierry and Vauchamps, inflicting nearly 20,000 casualties for a loss of 3,000 of his own men. However, this magic could not last... A well-known and respected writer on the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Maycock’s work is a fine addition to any bookshelf on a much neglected campaign. This book is part of the Special Campaigns series produced around the turn of the 20th century by serving or recently retired British and Indian Army officers. They were intended principally for use by British officers seeking a wider knowledge of military history. Title – The Invasion of France, 1814

Author : F. W. O. (Frederick William Orby) Maycock
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1290441456

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The Invasion of France 1814 by F. W. O. (Frederick William Orby) Maycock Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : F. W. O. Maycock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1783315180

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The Invasion of France, 1814: The Special Campaign Series by F. W. O. Maycock Pdf

Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history each volume is interspersed with strategical and tactical comments and illustrated by numerous sketches. The 1814 campaign in France was Napoleon's final campaign. Following their victory at Leipzig, Russian, Austrian and other German armies invaded France. Despite the disproportionate forces in favour of the Coalition, Napoleon managed to inflict many defeats. However, the Coalition kept advancing towards Paris, which capitulated in late March 1814. Napoleon was deposed and exiled to Elba and the victorious powers started to redraw the map of Europe. Napoleon escaped from Elba the following year leading to the last conflict in the Napoleonic Wars, the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871422

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France 1814 - 1914 by Robert Tombs Pdf

Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution and war, the preoccupation with the idea of a New Order and the deep strain of national paranoia that was to be intensified by the dramatic debacle of the Franco-Prussian War. Robert Tombs then investigates the structures of power and in Part Three he turns his attention to social identities, from the individual and family to the nation at large. When every aspect of the period has been put under the microscope, Robert Tombs draws them all into the broad political narrative that brings the book to its rousing conclusion. Bursting with life as well as learning, this is, quite simply, a tour de force.

Author : F. W. O. Maycock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0484533932

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The Invasion of France, 1814, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by F. W. O. Maycock Pdf

Excerpt from The Invasion of France, 1814, Vol. 1 IT is surely a most curious coincidence that the centenary Of the overthrow of Napoleon's aggressive system Of military despotism by the Allies should coincide with the outbreak of the most gigantic struggle in which Europe has ever been involved. 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.

Author : Chatrian Alexandre
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 131800683X

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The Invasion of France in 1814 by Chatrian Alexandre Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Erckmann-Chatrian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:937973609

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The Invasion of France in 1814 by Erckmann-Chatrian Pdf

Author : Émile Erckmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833297109

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The Invasion of France in 1814 by Émile Erckmann Pdf

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871439

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France 1814 - 1914 by Robert Tombs Pdf

Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution and war, the preoccupation with the idea of a New Order and the deep strain of national paranoia that was to be intensified by the dramatic debacle of the Franco-Prussian War. Robert Tombs then investigates the structures of power and in Part Three he turns his attention to social identities, from the individual and family to the nation at large. When every aspect of the period has been put under the microscope, Robert Tombs draws them all into the broad political narrative that brings the book to its rousing conclusion. Bursting with life as well as learning, this is, quite simply, a tour de force.

Author : Francis Loraine Petre
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022638874

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Napoleon At Bay 1814 by Francis Loraine Petre Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive account of the 1814 campaign in France where Napoleon fought some of his most significant battles. It depicts Napoleon's military strategy and tactics in the context of the broader political and social environment of the time. 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.

Author : Beatrice de Graaf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842068

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Fighting Terror after Napoleon by Beatrice de Graaf Pdf

Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.

Author : Charles J. Esdaile
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473870826

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Napoleon, France and Waterloo by Charles J. Esdaile Pdf

So great is the weight of reading on the subject of the Waterloo campaign that it might be thought there is nothing left to say about it, and from the military viewpoint, this is very much the case. But one critical aspect of the story has gone all but untold – the French home front. Little has been written about the topic in English, and few works on Napoleon or Revolutionary and Napoleonic France pay it much attention. It is this conspicuous gap in the literature that Charles Esdaile explores in this erudite and absorbing study. Drawing on the vivid, revealing material that is available in the French archives, in the writings of soldiers who fought in France in 1814 and 1815 and in the memoirs of civilians who witnessed the fall of Napoleon or the Hundred Days, he gives us a fascinating new insight into the military and domestic context of the Waterloo campaign, the Napoleonic legend and the wider situation across Europe.

Author : Geert van Uythoven
Publisher : From Reason to Revolution
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 191286665X

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They Fought with Extraordinary Bravery by Geert van Uythoven Pdf

In October 1813, the soldiers of one of Napoleon's staunchest Allies, Saxony, defected en masse in the midst of battle at Leipzig. Almost immediately III German Army Corps was formed with these same soldiers as its nucleus and augmented with returning former prisoners of war, volunteers and militia. Commanded by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar the Corps was sent to the Southern Netherlands to take part in the final defeat of Napoleon amidst of a constant changing command of control structure, in which the Swedish Crown Prince Bernadotte played a major and dubious role. Although for the greater part inexperienced and badly armed, fighting against the much superior French I Corps which even contained Imperial Guard units, III Corps struggled to prove that it could be trusted, paying a major role to protect the Netherlands against the French as these regions tried to regain their own identity after decades of French rule.

Author : David King
Publisher : Crown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307407368

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Vienna, 1814 by David King Pdf

“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.” —David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modern European history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumably defeated and exiled to the small island of Elba, heads of some 216 states gathered in Vienna to begin piecing together the ruins of his toppled empire. Major questions loomed: What would be done with France? How were the newly liberated territories to be divided? What type of restitution would be offered to families of the deceased? But this unprecedented gathering of kings, dignitaries, and diplomatic leaders unfurled a seemingly endless stream of personal vendettas, long-simmering feuds, and romantic entanglements that threatened to undermine the crucial work at hand, even as their hard-fought policy decisions shaped the destiny of Europe and led to the longest sustained peace the continent would ever see. Beyond the diplomatic wrangling, however, the Congress of Vienna served as a backdrop for the most spectacular Vanity Fair of its time. Highlighted by such celebrated figures as the elegant but incredibly vain Prince Metternich of Austria, the unflappable and devious Prince Talleyrand of France, and the volatile Tsar Alexander of Russia, as well as appearances by Ludwig van Beethoven and Emilia Bigottini, the sheer star power of the Vienna congress outshone nearly everything else in the public eye. An early incarnation of the cult of celebrity, the congress devolved into a series of debauched parties that continually delayed the progress of peace, until word arrived that Napoleon had escaped, abruptly halting the revelry and shrouding the continent in panic once again. Vienna, 1814 beautifully illuminates the intricate social and political intrigue of this history-defining congress–a glorified party that seemingly valued frivolity over substance but nonetheless managed to drastically reconfigure Europe’s balance of power and usher in the modern age.

Author : Alexander Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030305

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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia by Alexander Morrison Pdf

A comprehensive diplomatic and military history of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, spanning the whole of the nineteenth century.