"Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign" Topic

… in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1

"Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of his ten-volume published writings. The others, historical analyses of the wars that roiled Europe from 1789 through 1815, informed and shaped Clausewitz's military thought, so they offer invaluable insight into his dialectical, often difficult theoretical masterwork.

Among these historical works, one of the most important is Der Feldzug von 1799 in Italien und der Schweiz, which covers an important phase of the French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant covers the period of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and focuses on the Second Coalition's campaign in Italy and their victories under Suvorov's dynamic leadership that carried the tide of battle up against the French frontier…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Thanks Armand.

I used my work on this to design wargames for my students at work which is noted in the book. Both Chris and I are keen wargamers, and he has a group page with some of the battles from the books we are working on. There are free wargaming scenarios in Chris's link:

groups.io/g/bloodybigbattles

Volume 2 will be out in February:
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A votre service mon ami! (smile)

Congrats for the good work!…

Amicalement
Armand