| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 686 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Cambridge military histories |
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Cambridge military histories.
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| Contents |
The New Charlemagne -- Barbarians at the Gate -- The Frankfurt Proposals -- Napoleon and the French -- The Left Bank -- The Right Bank -- The Lower Rhine -- The Upper Rhine -- The Middle Rhine -- Alsace and Franche-Comte -- The Vosges and the Saone -- Lorraine -- The Saar and the Moselle -- Belgium -- The Marne -- Bourgogne, the Rh̥ne, and the Aube -- The Protocols of Langres -- Appendixes |
| Summary |
This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With more than a million men under arms throughout central Europe, Coalition forces poured over the Rhine River to invade France between late November 1813 and early January 1814. Three principal army groups drove across the great German landmark, smashing the exhausted French forces that attempted to defend the eastern frontier. In less than a month, French forces ingloriously retreated from the Rhine to the Marne; Allied forces were within one week of reaching Paris. This book provides the first complete English-language study of the invasion of France along a front that extended from Holland to Switzerland |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-582) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Military leadership
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| SUBJECT |
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 fast |
| Subject |
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- France.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military campaigns
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Command of troops
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Befreiungskriege 1813-1815
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| SUBJECT |
France -- History -- Invasion of 1814.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051397
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| Subject |
France
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316348574 |
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1316348571 |
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9781316257135 |
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1316257134 |
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9781107683501 |
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1107683505 |
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