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Yorck von Wartenberg: Napoleon als Feldherr, almost supersedes the older authority of Clausewitz, Jomini, Ruestow, and Lossau. The Armies of Austria and Sardinia Montenotte and Millesimo Mondovi and Cherasco Consequences of the Campaign The Plains of Lombardy The Crossing of the Po Advance Toward Milan Lodi Retreat of the Austrians Moral Effects of Lodi.
To quote a great authority in this connection, Jomini says: "Happening to be in Paris near the end of 1851, a distinguished person did me the honor to ask my opinion as to whether recent improvements in firearms would cause any great modifications in the way of making war.
It was exactly so we endeavoured to begin the Seven Years' War; and it was exactly so the Japanese successfully conducted their war with Russia; and what is more striking, it was on similar lines that in 1859 Moltke in similar circumstances drew up his first war plan against France. His idea at that time was on the lines which Jomini held should have been Napoleon's in 1812.
They found that these potentialities in certain circumstances were great. As an example of a case where the lower form was more appropriate Jomini cites Napoleon's campaign against Russia in 1812.
The latter he could not recruit, but the former he must repair at any hazard; this could be done only by what he designated to Jomini as a "good battle." The success of the minor engagements to right and left, incident to concentration, was encouraging for such a speedy and overwhelming triumph. The Russians at Smolensk were vainglorious at having outwitted Napoleon, and longed to fight.
Napoleon's second visit to Dresden Battle of Bantzen The Congress at Prague Napoleon ill advised Battle of Vittoria General Moreau Rupture of the conferences at Prague Defection of Jomini Battles of Dresden and Leipsic Account of the death of Duroc An interrupted conversation resumed a year after Particulars respecting Poniatowski His extraordinary courage and death His monument at Leipsic and tomb in the cathedral of Warsaw.
"And who WAS your friend Jomini?" "The greatest military critic and tactician of his age," I answered. "One of Napoleon's generals. I fancy he wrote a book, don't you know a book on war Des Grandes Operations Militaires, or something of that sort." "Well, there you are, then! That's just it!
The Emperor believed Prussia to be helpless, chiding Davout for his doleful reports of the new temper which had been developed. Jomini declared, but long afterward, that the great captain had avowed to a confidential friend his eagerness for the excitement of battle.
Before leaving the general consideration of limited war, we have still to deal with a form of it that has not yet been mentioned. Clausewitz gave it provisionally the name of "War limited by contingent," and could find no place for it in his system. It appeared to him to differ essentially from war limited by its political object, or as Jomini put it, war with a territorial object.
General Jomini, adjutant-general of Marshal Ney, has deserted his post and gone over to the camp of the allies to offer his services to the sovereigns. He has become a member of the Emperor Alexander's staff."
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