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 Editor in Chief Bill  | 22 May 2019 1:36 p.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link Which battle best demonstrates Napoleon's generalship? In the final round of voting: 72% said "Austerlitz"
5% (tie) said "Marengo" OR "Jena"
3% said "Ulm" |
 deadhead  | 22 May 2019 2:08 p.m. PST |
The rabbits OK, maybe Marie Waleska. As locals would put it "By, she were fit". Story goes she were a good looking lass and quite taken with our Boney. Some campaigns are worth it |
| Whirlwind | 23 May 2019 2:28 a.m. PST |
I disagree with this one! A large part of the success at Austerlitz has to be attributed to Allied mishandling rather than Napoleonic brilliance…I'd pick something from 1813-14 I think. Dresden maybe, or something from the Six Days' Campaign. Even Ligny is perhaps underrated because of what came after. One of the ones that you read about and think Napoleon had no right to win that. |
| rustymusket | 23 May 2019 4:43 a.m. PST |
He might have shined best in his ability to pull things together in 1809 after Berthier had dealt as best he could with Napoleon's remote directions. Prior to Aspern-Esseling. |
| Nine pound round | 23 May 2019 5:05 a.m. PST |
First Italian campaign; not just rabbit after rabbit out of a hat, but that amazing ability to recover from the missteps, blind-alley semi-successes, and unexpected contingencies that dog every general. Again and again and again. With an ill-supplied army facing enemies converging from every point of the compass. It's the foundation of the Napoleonic legend, and justly so. Put another way- I never realized how hard the things he pulled off were until I tried to play his role in a Rivoli scenario…. |
| ConnaughtRanger | 23 May 2019 12:36 p.m. PST |
Waterloo, apparently – according to many people on this Forum? |
| Brechtel198 | 24 May 2019 5:27 a.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 24 May 2019 1:37 p.m. PST |
The approach to "Waterloo" sure, every time. Even then, one might argue up until they crossed the border, genius. The planned invasion was superb. Then the execution by his subordinates…poor/incompetent/indolent/treasonous …. But he was the C in C. Other than in ones memoires, that is it. Down to you alas if it all goes wrong |
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