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Europe's great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France, yet force of numbers, superior leadership and the patriotic fervour of France's citizen-soldiers not only defeated each in turn, but closed the era of small, professional armies fighting for limited political objectives. This period produced commanders whose names remain a by-word for excellence in leadership to this day, Napoleon and Nelson. From Italy to Egypt Napoleon demonstrated his strategic genius and mastery of tactics in battles including Rivoli, the Pyramids and Marengo. Nelson's spectacular sea victories at the Nile and Copenhagen were foretastes of a century of British naval supremacy.
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Gregory Fremont-Barnes was born in San Francisco and studied history at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago and Oxford. Since 1993 he has lectured in British and American history in Japan, principally at Kobe University. He has published over ten articles on British diplomatic and military history.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Osprey Publishing (September 25, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1841762830
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1841762838
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.69 x 0.24 x 9.88 inches
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Michelle R. Michaud
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2015
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Roo
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Overview
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This period is really extensively complicated by alot of fascinating events. A purely Military History view would still be 1000 pages, because the French Revolutionary Wars were just such a fascinating time, with so many campaigns, battles, skirmishes, sieges.
This book attempts to give it a concise shape, and does a good job a the operational level of untangling the web of campaigns. Its difficult to find, in English, good stuff about this war. On Napoleon, there is an avalanche of books, even on specific battles. But not so much about this period, besides the Italian campaigns of Napoleon that ended these wars.
At the operational, it gives a good account, however, it lacks just due to the space about what occurred at the unit level at each of the battles, since each battle was its own story within a story. The way a Civil War book would spend a few pages on Antietam, Bull Run, and 5 pages on Gettysburg alone. There are 3-4 fronts at any given moment in this period, and untangling them all is done in a pretty decent way. The reader has a solid picture of what had transpired before Napoleon enters the stage. From than on, well, most of you have probably read a good deal on Napoleon already.
For those who haven't gotten a Napoleonic military history background, the Smithsonian History of War - Napoleonic Wars is a great starting point. Too bad it skips everything before Napoleon's Italian Campaign, which is why I own this book. This series also has a very good 7 years war and Spanish Succession books about the wars of Frederick the Great.
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Jan & Jeff
3.0 out of 5 stars Starting Point
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2001
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I was pleasantly surprised by this volume in Osprey's Essential Histories series. In a scant one hundred pages the author does an excellent job of capturing the essential facts relating to these conflicts sprinkled with useful maps and chronologies as well as some superb representational pieces of period art. I enjoyed the two interesting sidebars, one on a British naval officer and another on Nelson's ladylove, Emma Hamilton. The short bibliography lists two of my favorites, Paddy Griffith's ART of WAR of REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE and T.C.W.Blanning's THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS. Fremont-Barnes has done a very good job on supplying the interested reader an introduction to an extremely colorful and fascinating period.
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Mike Dillemuth
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Balanced Overview of this Worldwide Conflict.
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2021
Overall, this is a pretty good read. The author provides a balanced overview of what was essentially an expansive European wide conflict. Although the book covers numerous battles, it provides an appropriate level of detail on the more relevant engagements such as the battles of the Nile and Marengo. In essence, the author gives equal time to both Napoleon and Lord Nelson. Time is also spent on the other aspects of this conflict, to include the Austrians, and Prussians. The chapter on “The Fighting” does a nice job of moving quickly through the myriad of political and military aspects of both the First and Second Coalitions.

The book includes ten 2D maps, along with numerous drawings and paintings. It also has insightful coverage of daily life through its chapters on a Royal Navy midshipmen and a brief, but well written narrative of Lady Emma Hamilton; most famously known for being the mistress and true love of Lord Nelson.

Bottom line: The book is well written and follows a logical progression. The author did a very nice job of covering an enormous amount of material in a succinct and well balanced fashion.
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Thomas McClelland
3.0 out of 5 stars Brief, but Solid
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Fremont-Barnes does a solid job high lighting the main points and dispensing with irrelevant information. However, given its high cost, at $16 or $8 if rented, I was expecting more. A good place to start from, but that's it.
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Suzanne
5.0 out of 5 stars It's the actual book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2021
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This is the second book sent as the first one was not the content of the title.
A good read now.
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Ramones 16
5.0 out of 5 stars Osprey bürgt wie immer für Qualität
Reviewed in Germany on May 14, 2012
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Die "Essential Histories" - Serie von Osprey Publishing bringt die jeweiligen Themen auf den Punkt. Knackig, auf das Wesentliche reduziert und doch nichts Wichtiges weglassend, eine hervorragende militärhistorische Serie für alle jene, die sich schnell und umfassend informieren wollen. Nummer 7 der Serie beschäftigt sich mit den Französischen Revolutionskriegen, deren Auswirkung die europäische Geschichte bis heute prägt. Es ist ein interessantes "Was wäre wenn..." - Spielchen, falls der Herzog von Braunschweig am 20. 9. 1792 bei Valmy nicht den Angriff seiner Truppen abgebrochen hätte. Goethe, der die Alliierten begleitete, meinte zu Offizieren "hier und heute beginnt eine neue Epoche der Geschichte, und ihr könnt' sagen ihr seid dabei gewesen". Es ist in der Tat erstaunlich, wie das revolutionäre Frankreich, von Aufständen im Inneren drangsaliert und einer Menge Feinden im Ausland umzingelt, letztendlich nicht nur seine Grenzen erfolgreich verteidigte, sondern sogar aggressive und erfolgreiche Angriffskriege führte. Andererseits erzeugte die Revolution einen unglaublichen Terror, dem zehntausende Franzosen zum Opfer fielen. Interessant eine Zahl aus dem Buch, während 80 französische Generäle in den Revolutionskriegen fielen, wurden alleine 1793-94 84 durch die Revolution hingerichtet! Militärhistorisch besonders interessant, die Rolle von Lazare Carnot's "levee en masse", die das erste Massenheer der neueren Geschichte zur Folge hatte, hier wurde bereits der "Totale Krieg" vorexerziert. Daraus ergaben sich wiederum neue Taktiken im Felde, wie z.B. die Sturmkolonnen anstatt der vorherrschenden Lineartaktik, da die schlecht ausgebildeten französischen Rekruten dafür besser geeignet waren und man mit diesem Mittel zahlenmäßige Überlegenheit am Schlachtfeld besser nutzen konnte. Außerdem ernährten sich die französischen Armeen aus den eroberten Gebieten, auch hier das neue Gesicht des "totalen Krieges".
Und, erstmalig werden, der enormen Grösse der Armeen wegen, Divisionen in Armeekorps gegliedert, und zwar von Moreau 1800 in der Rheinarmee. Das Buch besticht mit einer Fülle von interessanten Details, einer praktischen Chronologie, schönen Gemäldeabbildungen und gut gemachten Karten. Außerdem einem Exkurs über die Lebensgeschichte von Lady Hamilton, der Geliebten Admiral Nelsons sowie die Folgen der Revolutionskriege wie z.b. den Aufstieg des kleinen Korsen. Alles in allem sehr zu empfehlen, eine knackige Übersicht zu einem mehr als angemessenen Preis.
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AMB
3.0 out of 5 stars Good starting point but would like more detail for my money
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2016
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As others have stated this is a good starting point, sketches all of the campaigns and has a good further reading list. I have read history books of the same price that provide more information and more analysis. Some interesting colour was provided in the chapters on Admiral Dillon and Emma Hamilton.
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Andrew
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2015
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good overview of the revolution
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Blueblinky
2.0 out of 5 stars Save your money and go on Wikipedia
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 23, 2019
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For the price it is a very rudimentary history of a complex subject. Save your money for a more complete history of the French Revolutionary Wars and go to Wikipedia for a more in depth coverage of the same subject.
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