Battles and Decisiveness in War The Elusiveness of Decision Further Themes of This Book

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1 Introduction p. xi Battles and Decisiveness in War p. xi The Elusiveness of Decision p. xii Further Themes of This Book p. xiii An Overview p. xvii Note on Dates p. xix The Profession of Officership and the Birth of Modern War The Return of the Legions: Gustavus Adolphus and Breitenfeld p. 3 The Army of Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of the Military Profession p. 5 The Dutch Republic and the Birth of Military Professionalism p. 9 The Weapons of Gustavus Adolphus p. 14 A Strategy Seeking Battle p. 18 Breitenfeld p. 19 The Limits of the New Legions: Lutzen and After p. 24 A Strategy of Erosion versus a Strategy of Annihilation p. 25 Logistics and Christian Warfare p. 27 Maneuver Leads toward Another Battle p. 29 Lutzen p. 32 On the Indecisiveness of War p. 34 Under the Lily Banners: Rocroi p. 37 The French Army and the Creation of Modern Artillery p. 38 The Beginnings of Modern French Infantry p. 39 Rocroi p. 40 The Peace of Westphalia p. 44 The Army of the Sun King p. 45 Louis XIV and European Hegemony p. 45 The Administration of the Army under Louis XIV p. 46 Vauban p. 53 The Early Wars of Louis XIV p. 58 The English Army to 1660 p. 60 The Beginnings of England's Standing Army, p. 63 The War of the League of Augsburg p. 64 The Spanish Succession and the Emergence of Marlborough p. 67 On Restraining the Violence of War p. 69 Marlborough's Battles: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet p. 73 Weapons and Tactical Indecision p. 74 The Outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession p. 78 English Military Administration p. 80 Blenheim p. 80 English Intervention in Spain p. 87 Ramillies p. 89

2 Oudenarde p. 92 Malplaquet p. 96 The Ne Plus Ultra Lines p. 98 The French Resurgence and the Peace of Utrecht p. 99 On Decisiveness and Professionalism p. 102 The Emergence of the Great Powers of Eastern Europe p. 105 The Great Northern War p. 107 Montecuccoli and the Army of the Habsburgs p. 116 Brandenburg-Prussia under the Great Elector p. 121 Prussia's Military Tour de Force: The Approach to Great-Power Status p. 126 On the Limitations of Early Military Professionalism p. 129 The Rise of Naval Power p. 131 From Medieval to Early Modern Navies p. 132 The Armada and Broadside Gunnery p. 135 The Anglo-Dutch Naval Rivalry: The Early Phase p. 138 The Tactics of the Line Ahead p. 145 The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry: The Middle Phase p. 147 The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry: The Final Phase p. 149 Colbert and the Rise of the French Navy: The Battle of Beachy Head p. 154 The Confirmation of English Naval Ascendancy: The Battle of Barfleur p. 159 The Triumph of the Royal Navy p. 161 The Eighteenth Century: The Classical Epoch of Modern War The Battles of Frederick the Great p. 167 Frederick the Great and the Shape of Eighteenth-Century Battle p. 168 Frederick in Silesia: The Battle of Mollwitz p. 170 Hohenfriedberg and the Oblique Order of Battle p. 174 Military Preparations and Diplomatic Revolution p. 176 Lobositz p. 179 Prague and Kolin p. 180 Rossbach p. 182 Leuthen p. 187 Zorndorf and Hochkirch p. 188 Kunersdorf, Minden, Torgau p. 190 The Miracle of the House of Brandenburg p. 192 Armies and Warfare in the Time of Frederick the Great p. 193 The French and British Armed Forces from the Rhine to the St. Lawrence p. 196 The Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century p. 197 The Rising of "the Forty-Five" p. 199 Fontenoy p. 203 Culloden p. 207 The British Soldier from Minden to Quebec p. 211

3 The British Sailor from Minorca to Cartagena p. 219 The Battle of Quiberon Bay p. 223 Colonial Wars and European Wars p. 230 Toward Wars of Nations: The War of American Independence p. 232 The Conduct of the War of American Independence p. 233 The Capes of the Chesapeake and Yorktown p. 238 The Battle of Ushant p. 241 D'Estaing and Byron in the West Indies p. 244 Rodney in the West Indies: The Dominica Channel and The Saints p. 246 Suffren p. 251 The Peace Settlement p. 254 Prelude to Revolution p. 256 The Military Decline of France p. 256 Toward a Renewed French Army: Broglie and Guibert p. 263 The Problem of Indecisiveness in Battle: Infantry and Cavalry p. 267 The Problem of Indecisiveness in Battle: Artillery p. 270 The French Army and the Outbreak of Revolution p. 273 Thunderstrokes of Battle: the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars The French Revolution: Transformation and Continuity in War p. 279 Revolution Generates War p. 280 Valmy p. 284 Carnot and the Nation in Arms p. 287 Hondschoote and Wattignies: The Emergence of Jourdan p. 291 The Revolutionary Armies on the Offensive: Tourcoing, Tournai, and Fleurus; Souham, Pichegru, and Jourdan p. 292 General Bonaparte on the Horizon p. 298 The Campaign of Germany in 1796: Jourdan and Moreau versus the Archduke Charles p. 299 Bonaparte in Italy, 1796: The Bridge at Lodi p. 304 Bonaparte in Italy, : Arcola and Rivoli p. 308 Sea Power and Empire p. 313 The Glorious First of June p. 314 The Irish Expedition of 1796 p. 317 Land Power over Sea Power: The Mediterranean, p. 320 Cape St. Vincent: Jervis and Nelson p. 322 Camperdown p. 323 Bonaparte versus Nelson: The Egyptian Expedition and the Battle of the Nile p. 325 Mediterranean Anticlimax p. 329 Ebb and Flow in the Channel p. 331 The Armed Neutrals and the Battle of Copenhagen p. 332 The End of France's Egyptian Adventure p. 337 Nelson and the Preliminaries to Trafalgar p. 338 Barham at the Admiralty: A New Direction for Naval Strategy p. 342

4 Trafalgar p. 345 Nelson and Command at Sea p. 350 Command of the Sea p. 352 The Climax of Napoleonic War: To Austerlitz and Jena-Auerstadt p. 354 Suvorov in Italy, 1799: The Trebbia and Novi p. 355 Suvorov and Massena in Switzerland, 1799 p. 358 The First Consul's Military Reforms: The Corps System p. 361 The Crossing of the Alps and the Battle of Marengo p. 362 Moreau at Hohenlinden p. 371 The Peace of Amiens p. 374 Napoleon on the Eve of His Greatest Campaigns p. 375 The Ulm Campaign p. 378 The Austerlitz Campaign: Preliminaries p. 382 The Austerlitz Campaign: The Great Battle p. 384 The Jena-Auerstadt Campaign: Preliminaries p. 390 The Jena-Auerstadt Campaign: The Battles p. 394 The Gradual Eclipse of the Battle of Annihilation; The Rise of the War of Attrition p. 399 Eylau p. 400 Friedland p. 404 The Peace of Tilsit p. 407 The Iberian Disease p. 408 The Spanish Campaign of Sir John Moore p. 413 The Emergence of Wellington p. 415 The Military Resurgence of Austria p. 418 The Campaign of 1809: Eckmuhl and Ebelsberg p. 421 The Campaign of 1809: Aspern-Essling p. 425 The Campaign of 1809: Wagram p. 428 The Campaign of 1809: Resolution p. 432 Campaigns of Exhaustion and Attrition p. 435 The Lines of Torres Vedras p. 435 The Iberian Campaign of 1811: Attrition, Logistics, and Stalemate p. 438 The Invasion of Russia: Preliminaries p. 440 The Invasion of Russia: To Borodino p. 445 Moscow and the Terrible Retreat p. 450 Prussia's Reversal of Alliances and the Sixth Coalition p. 454 The Resurgence of Military Professionalism p. 457 The Prussian Military Reforms p. 458 Lutzen p. 462 Bautzen p. 465 The Dresden Campaign: A Threat to Berlin p. 469 The Dresden Campaign: Dresden, the Katzbach, and Kulm p. 472

5 The Dresden Campaign: Futile Maneuvers and the Battle of Dennewitz p. 476 Leipzig p. 478 The Downfall of Genius p. 483 The Spanish Campaign of 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Burgos p. 485 The Spanish Campaign of 1813: Vitoria p. 490 Through the Pyrenees and into France: Sorauren, the Nivelle, Orthes, Bayonne, Toulouse p. 493 The Peninsular War: An Assessment p. 498 Napoleon's 1814 Campaign of Maneuver: Sparring p. 501 Napoleon's 1814 Campaign of Maneuver: Laon, Paris, Fontainebleau p. 508 The End of an Age: Waterloo p. 513 The Campaign: Preliminaries p. 514 The Campaign: Quatre-Bras and Ligny p. 522 The Campaign: The Eve of Battle p. 525 Waterloo p. 527 On the Future of War p. 536 The Recalcitrant Indecisiveness of War p. 537 Battle and the Profession of Officership p. 540 Officer Professionalism and the Violence of War p. 541 Bibliographical Notes p. 545 Index p. 559 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.