TY - BOOK AU - Marshall-Cornwall,James TI - Napoleon as military commander PY - 1967/// CY - London, Princeton (N.J.) PB - Batsford, Van Nostrand KW - Napoleon, I KW - Emperors KW - France KW - Biography KW - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 KW - Campaigns N1 - Maps on endpapers; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 296-297; Cont.: The formative years 1769 -- 1792 -- The military legacy inherited by Napoleon -- Baptism of fire 1793-1795 -- The lightning strikes 1796 -- The conquest of Lombardy 1796 -- Rivoli and the conquest of Venetia 1797 -- The Egyptian adventure 1798-1799 -- The consulate and Marengo 1800 -- Consulate to empire 1800-1805 -- Ulm and Austerlitz 1805 -- The Jena campaign 1806 -- Poland and East Prussia 1806-1807 -- Apogee of an empire 1807-1808 -- Second campaign in the Danube Valley 1809 -- War on two fronts 1810-1812 -- The beginning of the end 1813 -- At Bay 1814 -- Elba to Waterloo 1814-1815 N2 - Whether as a general or a statesman, the two decades of Napoleon's maturity, from the triumphant invasion of Italy to the final defeat at Waterloo, were years of extraordinary achievement. James Marshall-Cornwall here analyzes Napoleon as military commander ER -