"1st/2nd Coalition books and resources" Topic

Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for books or websites (in the vein of kronoskaf) for the 1st and 2nd Coalition Wars. Particularly the Flanders, Rhine, and Italian campaigns (up until and including Suvorov). Things like Orders of Battle, uniform plates, entry level/popular level books. I found plenty of sites for the Napoleonic Wars but not much for the previous Revolutionary Wars. Thank you for your time!

The 1799 campaign in Italy – Vol.s 1-4 has tons of that information you're looking for, OOBs, Uniform Plates, etc….

BUT they are VERY expensive for card backed books and the translation from the Italian is unbelieveably clunky looks like it's been done with a dictionary in hand plus a bit imagination to fill in. I am finding them VERY hard to read, also not keen on the very many potted biograpies of the participants or decriptions of the localities and their history which are rarely relevant to the story.

Try and see them first before you buy.

A good uniform primer link

Not entry level/popular level, but maybe still relevant: the translations Professor Murray and I did of Clausewitz's histories of the 1796 and 1799 campaigns.

"Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign"
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This one includes a lot of detailed OOBs.

"Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Vol. 1"
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"The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Vol. 2"
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No OOBs in these – their much greater scope made it impractical – but tons of other info.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but hopefully useful suggestions anyway.

Eagles over the Alps by C Duffy is good for Italy and Suvorov in 1799.

Paul Demet : We are accostumed to do our duty, German Units employed by the Brits in Flanders, all there including uniforms

Thomas, R.N.W. : No Want of Courage – The British Army in Flanders 1793 – 1795, great book – you learn how an army is run

Geert can Uythoven : The Secret Expedition – The Anglo – Russian Invasion of Holland 1799

Also please visit the Helion Webside and check the Reason to Revolution book list, you will find quite a few interesting titles.

Good link for a series of writings on the 1799 Italian campaign

Link would help eh….

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Armies of the French Republic and the rise of the Marshals of Napoleon by Colonel Ramsay Phipps. Five volumes deals with all of the Revolutionary campaigns.

I got mine from Naval and Military Press
Link naval-military-press.com

Hi

See Nafziger collection of OOB
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Great to see all this enthusiasm and knowledge for the early Coalition wars!

For the Flanders campaign I would recommend the following

‘The Duke of York's Flanders Campaign' by Steve Brown
‘Neither Up Nor Down.The British Army and the Flanders Campaign 1793-1795' by Philip Ball.

Also recommend those mentioned by von Winterfeldt

Nafziger also publishes a series of translated works ‘Wars of the French Revolution'

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I ended up getting a few books from this thread. Now I just need to decide what setting I'd prefer:1st or 2nd coalition.

Helion must have been reading my mind, as they just announced a wargaming guide to the 1st Coalition War. If its anything like their late 17th century guide, should be very helpful

New review of the Clausewitz 1799 histories here:
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