The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the rugged mountains of the Peninsula; from Egypt's Lower Nile to the bloody battlefield of New Orleans. Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars provides a comprehensive guide to the Napoleonic Wars and weaves together the four strands - military, naval, economic, and diplomatic - that intertwined to make up one of the greatest conflicts in history. Written by a team of the leading Napoleonic scholars, this volume provides an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of why the nations went to war, the challenges they faced and how the wars were funded and sustained. It sheds new light not only on the key battles and campaigns but also on questions of leadership, strategy, tactics, guerrilla warfare, recruitment, supply, and weaponry.
List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Contributors to Volume II; Introduction to Volume II; Part I. The Nature of Warfare in the Napoleonic Era; 23. Military Strategy and Tactics Bruno Colson; 24. Siege Warfare Bruno Colson; 25. Small Wars and Guerrilla Fighting John Lawrence Tone; 26. Maritime Warfare Andrew Lambert; Part II. The State of the Armed Forces; 27. Napoleon's Grande Armée Jean-François Brun; 28. The Austrian Army Ilya Berkovich and Michael Wenzel; 29. The Prussian Army Michael Sikora; 30. The Russian Army Dominic Lieven; 31. The British Army Gregory Fremont-Barnes; 32. The Royal Navy Stephen Conway; 33. The French Navy Kenneth Johnson; Part III. Raising and Supplying the Armies; 34. Logistics and Supply Jeremy Black, Frederick Schneid, Alexander Mikaberidze and John H. Gill; 35. Arms and Weaponry Gareth Glover; 36. Funding War (1): Napoleonic France Pierre Branda; 37. Funding War (2): Britain Roger Knight; 38. Funding War (3): The Habsburg Empire Patrick Swoboda; Part IV. Napoleon's Military Campaigns in Europe; 39. Napoleon's Italian Campaigns, 1796-1800 Frederick Schneid; 40. The Ulm and Austerlitz Campaigns, 1805 Jacques Garnier and Alexander Mikaberidze; 41. The Campaign of 1806-07 in Prussia and Poland Frederick Schneid; 42. The Peninsular War, 1808-14 Charles Esdaile; 43. The 1809 Campaign against Austria John H. Gill; 44. The Russian Campaign of 1812 Alex Mikaberidze; 45. The 1813 Campaign in Central Europe Michael Leggiere; 46. The Campagne de France of 1814 Michael Leggiere; 47. The Hundred Days and Waterloo, 1815 Tim Clayton; Part V. Other Spheres of War; 48. The Napoleonic Wars in Scandinavia Morten Nordhagen Ottosen; 49. The War at Sea: Trafalgar and Beyond James Davey; 50. Haiti, Slavery and the War in the Caribbean Philippe Girard; 51. The Egyptian Campaign and the Middle East Alexander Chudinov; 52. War and Piracy in the Atlantic World Scott Eastman; 53. The War of 1812 in the United States Troy Bickham; 54. The First Total War? The Place of the Napoleonic Wars in the History of Warfare David A. Bell; Bibliographical Essays; Index.
