The age of battles: the quest for decisive warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo
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adam_text | CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION xi
Battles and Decisiveness in War xi The Elusiveness of Decision xii
Further Themes of This Book xiii An Overview xvii
NOTE ON DATES xix
Part One the profession of officership
AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN WAR
chapter one The Return of the Legions: Gustavus Adolphus and
Breitenfeld 3
The Army of Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of the Military Profession 5
The Dutch Republic and the Birth of Military Professionalism 9 The
Weapons of Gustavus Adolphus 14 A Strategy Seeking Battle 18
Breitenfeld 19
chapter two The Limits ofThe New Legions: Lützen and After 24
A Strategy of Erosion versus a Strategy of Annihilation 25 Logistics and
Christian Warfare 27 Maneuver Leads toward Another Battle 29
Lützen 32 On the Indecisiveness of War 34
chapter three Under the Lily Banners: Rocroi 37
The French Army and the Creation of Modem Artillery 38 The
Beginnings of Modem French Infantry 39 Rocroi 40 The Peace of
Westphalia 44
[vi]
Contents
chapter four The Army of the Sun King 45
Louis XIV and European Hegemony 45 The Administration of the Army
under Louis XIV 46 Vauban 53 The Early Wars of Louis XIV58
The English Army to 1660 60 - The Beginnings of England s Standing
Army, 1660-1688 63 The War of the League of Augsburg 64 The
Spanish Succession and the Emergence of Marlborough. 67 j On
Restraining the Violence of War 69
chapter five Marlborough’s Battles: Blenheim,Ramillies,
Oudenarde, and Malplaquet 73
Weapons and Tactical Indecision 74 The Outbreak of the War of the
Spanish Succession 78 English Military Administration 80 Blenheim
80 English Intervention in Spain 87 Ramillies 89 Oudenarde 92
Malplaquet 96 The Ne Plus Ultra Lines 98 The French Resurgence _
and the Peace of Utrecht 99 On Decisiveness and Professionalism 192
chapter six The Emergence of the Great Powers
of Eastern Europe 105
The Great Northern War 107 Montecuccoli and the Army of the v
Habsburgs 116 Brandehburg-Prussia under the Great Elector121
Prussia s Military Tour de Force: The Approach to Great-Power Status
126 On the Limitations of Early Military Professionalism 129
chapter seven The Rise of Naval Power 131
From Medieval to Early Modem Navies .132 The Armada and
Broadside Gunnery 13s The Anglo-Dutck Naval Rivalry: The Early
Phase 138 The Tactics of the Line Ahead 145 The Anglo-Dutch
Rivalry: The Middle Phase 147 : The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry: The Final-
Phase 149 Colbert and the Rise of the French Navy: The Battle of
Beachy Head 154 The Confirmation of English Naval Ascendancy: The
Battle of Barfleur 159 The Triumph of the Royal Navy 161
Part Two the eighteenth century:
THE CLASSICAL EPOCH OF MODERN WAR
chapter eight The Battles of Frederick the Great 167
Frederick the Great and the Shape of Eighteenth-Century Battle 168
Frederick in Silesia: The Battle of Mollwitz 170 Hohenfriedberg and the
Oblique Order of Battle 174 Military Preparations and Diplomatic
Revolution 176 Lobositz 179 Prague and Kolin 180 Rossbach 182
Leuthen 187 Zómdorf and Hochkirch 188 Kunersdorf, Minden, Torgau
190 The Miracle of the House of Brandenburg 192 Armies and Warfare
in the Time of Frederick the Great 193
Contents [ vii ]
chapter nine The French and British Armed Forces from
the Rhine to the St. Lawrence 196
The Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century 197 The Rising of the
Forty-Five 199 Fontenoy 203 Culloden 207 -The British Soldier
fromMin den to Quebec 211 The British Sailor from Minorca to
Cartagena 219 The Battle of Quiberon Bay 223 Colonial Wars and
European Wars 230
chapter ten Toward Wars of Nations: The War of American
Independence 232
The Conduct of the War of American Independence 233 The Capes of the
Chesapeake and Yorktown 238 The Battle of Ushant 241 D Estaing
and Byron in the West Indies 244. Rodney in the West Indies: The
Dominica Channel and The Saints 246 Suffren 251 The Peace
Settlement 254
chapter eleven Prelude to Revolution 256
The Military Decline of France 256 Toward a Renewed French Army:
Broglie and Guibert 263 The Problem of Indecisiveness in Battle:
Infantry and Cavalry 267 ; The Problem of Indecisiveness in Battle:
Artillery 270 The French Army and the Outbreak of Revolution 273
Fart 1 hree thunderstrokes of battle:
THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY AND
NAPOLEONIC WARS
chapter twelve The Frenchdevolution: Transformation and
Continuity in War 279
Revolution Generates War 280 Valmy 284 Carnot and the Nation in
Arms 287 Hondschoote and Wattignies: The Emergence of Jourdan 291
The Revolutionary Armies on the Offensive: Tourcoingt Toumai; and
Fleurus; Souhamf Pichegru, and Jourdan 292 General Bonaparte on the
Horizon 298 The Campaign of Germany in 1796: Jourdan and Moreau
versus the Archduke Charles 299 Bonaparte in Italy, 1796: The Bridge
at Lodi 304 Bonaparte in Italy, 1796-1797; Areola and Rivoli 308
chapter thirteen Sea Power and Empire 313
The Glorious First of June 314 . The Irish Expedition of 1796 317 Land
Power over Sea Power: The Mediterranean1796-7797 320 Cape St.
Vincent: Jervis and Nelson 322 Camperdown 323 Bonaparte versus
Nelson: The Egyptian Expedition and the Battle of the Nile 325
Mediterranean Anticlimax 329 Ebb and Flow in the Channel 331 The
Armed Neutrals and the Battle of Copenhagen 332 The End of France s
[ viii ] Contents
Egyptian Adventure 337 Nelson and the Preliminaries to Trafalgar 338
Barham at the Admiralty: A New Direction for Naval Strategy 342
Trafalgar 345 Nelson and Command at Sea 350 Command of the Sea
352
chapter fourteen TheClimax of Napoleonic War:
To Austerlitz arid Jcna-Aüerstädt 354
Suvorov in Italy, 1799: The Trebbia and Novi 355 Suvorov and
Massena in Switzerland, 1799 358 The First Consuis Military Reforms:
The Corps System 361 The Crossing of the Alps and the Battle of
Marengo 362 Moreau at Hohenlinden 371 The Peace of Amiens 374
Napoleon on the Eve of His Greatest Campaigns 375 The Ulm
Campaign 378 The Austerlitz Campaign: Preliminaries 382 The
Austerlitz Campaign: The Great Battle 384 The Jena-Auers tadt:
Campaign: Preliminaries 390 The Jena-Auerstadt Campaign: The
Battles 394
chapter fifteen The Gradual Eclipse of the Battle of
Annihilation; The Rise of the War of Attrition 399
Eylau 400 Friedland404 The Peace of Tilsit 407 The Iberian
Disease 408 The Spanish Campaign of Sir John Moore 413 The
Emergence of Wellington 415 The Military Resurgence of Austria 418
The Campaign of i809: Eckmühl and Ebelsberg 421 The Campaign of
1809: Aspem-Essling 425 The Campaign of 1809: Wagram 428 The
Campaign of 1809: Resolution 431
chapter sixteen Campaigns of Exhaustion and Attrition 435
The Lines of Torres Vedras 435 The Iberian Campaign of 1811: Attrition,
Logistics, and Stalemate 438 The Invasion of Russia: Preliminaries
440 The Invasion of Russia: To Borodino 445 Moscow and the
Terrible Retreat 450 Prussia s Reversal of Alliances and the Sixth
Coalitio n 454
chapter seventeen The Resurgence of Military Professionalism 457
The Prussian Military Reforms 458 Lätzen 462 Bautzen 465 r The
Dresden Campaign: A Threat to Berlin 469 The Dresden Campaign:
Dresden, the Katzbach, and Kulm 472 The Dresden Campaign: Futile
Maneuvers and the Battle of Dennewitz 476 Leipzig 478
chapter eighteen The Downfall of Genius 483
The Spanish Campaign of 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca,
Burgos 485 The Spanish Campaign of 1813; Vitoria 490 Through the
Pyrenees and into France: Sorauren, the Nivelle, Orthes, Bayonne,
Toulouse 493 The Peninsular War: An Assessment 498 Napoleon s
1814 Campaign of Maneuver: Sparring 501 Napoleon s 1814 Campaign
of Maneuver: Laon, Paris, Fontainebleau 508
Contents [ ix ]
chapter nineteen The End of an Age: Waterloo 513
The Campaign: Preliminaries 514 and
Ligny 522 r The Campaign: The Eve of Battle 525 Waterloo 527
chapter twenty On the Future of War 536
The Recalcitrant Indecisiveness of W Battle and the Profession of
Officership 540 Officer Professionalism and the Violence of War 541
BIBLIOGRAPHICALNOTES 545
INDEX 559
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