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NAPOLÉON Ier (1769-1821) Empereur
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MANUSCRIPT dictated with CORRECTIONS AUTOGRAPHES, [Notes on the Treaty of Major Military Operations by General Baron Jomini]| 4 pages large in-fol.., pages 5 to 8.
Very interesting manuscript on the campaigns of 1796-1797, rectifying Jomini's accounts.
Napoleon, reading on St. Helena the Treaty of Major Military Operations by General Antoine, Baron de JOMINI (1779-1869, the great Swiss strategist and military historian in the service of Russia), decides to rectify the relationship of several battles.
The manuscript was dictated to Louis-Étienne SAINT-DENIS dit le Mameluk ALI (1788-1856), second valet, copyist and librarian, and abundantly corrected by MONTHOLON and Napoleon himself (more than 130 autograph words). The present fragment, paginated 5 to 8, corresponds to the end of note IV Battle of Bassano (part of § 5) [chap. XXXI of Jomini], to notes V Battle of Arcole [chap. XXXIV] and VI Battle of Rivoli [chap. XXXVI], and most of note VI German Campaign of 1797 (chap. XXXVIII, the end of § 6 is missing)| the notes, here without titles, are designated by the Roman numeral and the number of the Jomini chapter. The text was published in Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France sous Napoléon (Firmin-Didot, 1823-1825, vol. IV, pp. 258-262), and in the Correspondence (vol. XXIX, 1870, pp. 353-359). We give a few excerpts.
[IV. Bassano]. The Austrians had spread "the rumor that Napoleon had perished with his army in the Brenta Gorge and that Wurmser with all his victorious army arrived on Mantua.
The commander of Légnago was a battalion chief of light infantry who was there with 500 men, but he lost his head, added faith to these false reports and thought it was a masterpiece to evacuate the place, to save his battalion and to join Sahuguet on Mantua [...]. At the first cannon shot of Cérea Napoleon's vanguard, who was on horseback and was marching further to the right in the direction of Sanguinetto, he galloped in to remedy
MANUSCRIPT dictated with CORRECTIONS AUTOGRAPHES, [Notes on the Treaty of Major Military Operations by General Baron Jomini]| 4 pages large in-fol.., pages 5 to 8.
Very interesting manuscript on the campaigns of 1796-1797, rectifying Jomini's accounts.
Napoleon, reading on St. Helena the Treaty of Major Military Operations by General Antoine, Baron de JOMINI (1779-1869, the great Swiss strategist and military historian in the service of Russia), decides to rectify the relationship of several battles.
The manuscript was dictated to Louis-Étienne SAINT-DENIS dit le Mameluk ALI (1788-1856), second valet, copyist and librarian, and abundantly corrected by MONTHOLON and Napoleon himself (more than 130 autograph words). The present fragment, paginated 5 to 8, corresponds to the end of note IV Battle of Bassano (part of § 5) [chap. XXXI of Jomini], to notes V Battle of Arcole [chap. XXXIV] and VI Battle of Rivoli [chap. XXXVI], and most of note VI German Campaign of 1797 (chap. XXXVIII, the end of § 6 is missing)| the notes, here without titles, are designated by the Roman numeral and the number of the Jomini chapter. The text was published in Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France sous Napoléon (Firmin-Didot, 1823-1825, vol. IV, pp. 258-262), and in the Correspondence (vol. XXIX, 1870, pp. 353-359). We give a few excerpts.
[IV. Bassano]. The Austrians had spread "the rumor that Napoleon had perished with his army in the Brenta Gorge and that Wurmser with all his victorious army arrived on Mantua.
The commander of Légnago was a battalion chief of light infantry who was there with 500 men, but he lost his head, added faith to these false reports and thought it was a masterpiece to evacuate the place, to save his battalion and to join Sahuguet on Mantua [...]. At the first cannon shot of Cérea Napoleon's vanguard, who was on horseback and was marching further to the right in the direction of Sanguinetto, he galloped in to remedy