But the French are halted at Acre, plague decimates their ranks, the fellahin reject Enlightenment for the savage joys of Holy War against the Christian dogs. Napoleon is defeated by fate ...

One of the chief purposes of his book ... war, while utilizing all these elements of battle, is conceived in three dimensions and in terms, if necessary, of total destruction — which was not ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their ... battlefields than it was about economics. Napoleon lost everything because of a trade war. His tale holds lessons and warnings about ambition ...

On the other hand, in his analysis of Book II of the Gallic Wars, Napoleon totally misses the fact that Caesar’s near disaster against the Nervi and other Belgic tribes on the Sambre in 57 BC was due ...