Napoleon’s Conquest of Prussia – 1806

Nonfiction, History, Spain & Portugal, France, Military
Cover of the book Napoleon’s Conquest of Prussia – 1806 by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E, Wagram Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E ISBN: 9781908692764
Publisher: Wagram Press Publication: June 14, 2011
Imprint: Wagram Press Language: English
Author: Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
ISBN: 9781908692764
Publisher: Wagram Press
Publication: June 14, 2011
Imprint: Wagram Press
Language: English

At the beginning of 1806, Napoleon could feel rather satisfied with his conquests, although the Russian Bear had been brutally beaten and the Austrian Eagle damaged beyond repair after the carnage of Austerlitz. However lurking to the north were the inheritors of Frederick the Great’s legacy of Rossbach and Leuthen, their sullen neutrality during 1805 had been bought by the price of the annexation of Hanover, the Prince-elector of which sat on the British throne. It would only be a matter of time before the Prussian army tested their might against Napoleon’s legions, young Prussians could be found outside the French embassy in Berlin sharpening their swords against its steps, Queen Luise was a vocal focus for the war party.
With the most positive expectations for the campaign, the lumbering Prussian army, led by veterans in their sixties, seventies and even eighties, groped to find Napoleon and his much faster moving corps d’armée. Napoleon’s Marshals and generals were mostly, apart from a few notable exceptions, one bordering on treason, at the top of their professional competency. Few if any however would have expected the campaign to unfold as it did, as Napoleon actively searched for the main Prussian army, he found and destroyed a significant portion of the army at Jena, a single of his corps, under Davout, faced and defeated the majority at Auerstädt. What followed thereafter was the most relentless pursuit of the Napoleonic Wars, combined with a number of capitulations which did not honour to Prussian arms.
Prussia was defeated completely, with a scant regard to future relations with this state, Napoleon dismembered the state, imposed war reparations that would have made the French at Compiegne, a century, later blush, allowed his soldiers to pillage on an unheard of scale. Not that he himself was immune to the tendency to take what might allowed, he took amongst other trophies, Frederick the Great’s own sword. Reduced to a second rate power Prussia, occupied by French soldiers, would look to the crumbs that Napoleon might hand out and hope that other powers might topple the mighty Napoleon.
As with all of Petre’s books on the Napoleonic period, his work is well written, scrupulously researched and balanced.
We have taken the liberty as diacritics appear in Petre’s book to change Blucher to Blücher.
Author – Francis Lorraine Petre OBE - (1852–1925)
Plans – ALL included – 7 total
Portraits and Illustrations – ALL included - 19 total

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

At the beginning of 1806, Napoleon could feel rather satisfied with his conquests, although the Russian Bear had been brutally beaten and the Austrian Eagle damaged beyond repair after the carnage of Austerlitz. However lurking to the north were the inheritors of Frederick the Great’s legacy of Rossbach and Leuthen, their sullen neutrality during 1805 had been bought by the price of the annexation of Hanover, the Prince-elector of which sat on the British throne. It would only be a matter of time before the Prussian army tested their might against Napoleon’s legions, young Prussians could be found outside the French embassy in Berlin sharpening their swords against its steps, Queen Luise was a vocal focus for the war party.
With the most positive expectations for the campaign, the lumbering Prussian army, led by veterans in their sixties, seventies and even eighties, groped to find Napoleon and his much faster moving corps d’armée. Napoleon’s Marshals and generals were mostly, apart from a few notable exceptions, one bordering on treason, at the top of their professional competency. Few if any however would have expected the campaign to unfold as it did, as Napoleon actively searched for the main Prussian army, he found and destroyed a significant portion of the army at Jena, a single of his corps, under Davout, faced and defeated the majority at Auerstädt. What followed thereafter was the most relentless pursuit of the Napoleonic Wars, combined with a number of capitulations which did not honour to Prussian arms.
Prussia was defeated completely, with a scant regard to future relations with this state, Napoleon dismembered the state, imposed war reparations that would have made the French at Compiegne, a century, later blush, allowed his soldiers to pillage on an unheard of scale. Not that he himself was immune to the tendency to take what might allowed, he took amongst other trophies, Frederick the Great’s own sword. Reduced to a second rate power Prussia, occupied by French soldiers, would look to the crumbs that Napoleon might hand out and hope that other powers might topple the mighty Napoleon.
As with all of Petre’s books on the Napoleonic period, his work is well written, scrupulously researched and balanced.
We have taken the liberty as diacritics appear in Petre’s book to change Blucher to Blücher.
Author – Francis Lorraine Petre OBE - (1852–1925)
Plans – ALL included – 7 total
Portraits and Illustrations – ALL included - 19 total

More books from Wagram Press

Cover of the book History Of The Consulate And The Empire Of France Under Napoleon Vol. VI [Illustrated Edition] by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book From Boulogne to Austerlitz – Napoleon’s Campaign of 1805 by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book A Cavalry Officer In The Corunna Campaign 1808-1809: by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book Memoirs of the Late War – Vol. I. by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book Memoirs of the Late War – Vol. II. by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book Life and Correspondence of John, Earl of St Vincent, G.C.B. Vol. I by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book Mémoires Du Général Bigarré, Aide De Camp Du Roi Joseph by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book With "The Thirty-Second" In The Peninsular And Other Campaigns by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book A Narrative of The Peninsular War by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book The Memoirs Of Duke Of Rovigo Vol. III by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book Narrative Of The Siege of Zaragoza by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book The Autobiography of Sergeant Lawrence - A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns [Illustrated Edition] by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book Recollections of the Peninsula by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book Narrative of a forced journey through Spain and France, as a prisoner of war, in the years 1810 to 1814. Vol. II by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Cover of the book Dix ans de souvenirs militaires de 1805 à 1815 by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy