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| Introduction | |
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| Battles and Decisiveness in War | |
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| The Elusiveness of Decision | |
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| Further Themes of This Book | |
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| An Overview | |
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| Note on Dates | |
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| The Profession of Officership and the Birth of Modern War | |
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| The Return of the Legions: Gustavus Adolphus and Breitenfeld | |
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| The Army of Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of the Military Profession | |
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| The Dutch Republic and the Birth of Military Professionalism | |
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| The Weapons of Gustavus Adolphus | |
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| A Strategy Seeking Battle | |
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| Breitenfeld | |
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| The Limits of the New Legions: Lutzen and After | |
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| A Strategy of Erosion versus a Strategy of Annihilation | |
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| Logistics and Christian Warfare | |
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| Maneuver Leads toward Another Battle | |
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| Lutzen | |
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| On the Indecisiveness of War | |
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| Under the Lily Banners: Rocroi | |
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| The French Army and the Creation of Modern Artillery | |
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| The Beginnings of Modern French Infantry | |
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| Rocroi | |
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| The Peace of Westphalia | |
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| The Army of the Sun King | |
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| Louis XIV and European Hegemony | |
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| The Administration of the Army under Louis XIV | |
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| Vauban | |
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| The Early Wars of Louis XIV | |
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| The English Army to 1660 | |
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| The Beginnings of England's Standing Army, 1660-1688 | |
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| The War of the League of Augsburg | |
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| The Spanish Succession and the Emergence of Marlborough | |
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| On Restraining the Violence of War | |
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| Marlborough's Battles: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet | |
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| Weapons and Tactical Indecision | |
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| The Outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession | |
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| English Military Administration | |
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| Blenheim | |
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| English Intervention in Spain | |
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| Ramillies | |
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| Oudenarde | |
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| Malplaquet | |
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| The Ne Plus Ultra Lines | |
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| The French Resurgence and the Peace of Utrecht | |
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| On Decisiveness and Professionalism | |
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| The Emergence of the Great Powers of Eastern Europe | |
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| The Great Northern War | |
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| Montecuccoli and the Army of the Habsburgs | |
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| Brandenburg-Prussia under the Great Elector | |
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| Prussia's Military Tour de Force: The Approach to Great-Power Status | |
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| On the Limitations of Early Military Professionalism | |
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| The Rise of Naval Power | |
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| From Medieval to Early Modern Navies | |
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| The Armada and Broadside Gunnery | |
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| The Anglo-Dutch Naval Rivalry: The Early Phase | |
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| The Tactics of the Line Ahead | |
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| The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry: The Middle Phase | |
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| The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry: The Final Phase | |
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| Colbert and the Rise of the French Navy: The Battle of Beachy Head | |
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| The Confirmation of English Naval Ascendancy: The Battle of Barfleur | |
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| The Triumph of the Royal Navy | |
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| The Eighteenth Century: The Classical Epoch of Modern War | |
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| The Battles of Frederick the Great | |
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| Frederick the Great and the Shape of Eighteenth-Century Battle | |
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| Frederick in Silesia: The Battle of Mollwitz | |
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| Hohenfriedberg and the Oblique Order of Battle | |
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| Military Preparations and Diplomatic Revolution | |
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| Lobositz | |
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| Prague and Kolin | |
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| Rossbach | |
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| Leuthen | |
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| Zorndorf and Hochkirch | |
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| Kunersdorf, Minden, Torgau | |
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| The Miracle of the House of Brandenburg | |
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| Armies and Warfare in the Time of Frederick the Great | |
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| The French and British Armed Forces from the Rhine to the St. Lawrence | |
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| The Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Rising of "the Forty-Five" | |
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| Fontenoy | |
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| Culloden | |
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| The British Soldier from Minden to Quebec | |
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| The British Sailor from Minorca to Cartagena | |
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| The Battle of Quiberon Bay | |
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| Colonial Wars and European Wars | |
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| Toward Wars of Nations: The War of American Independence | |
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| The Conduct of the War of American Independence | |
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| The Capes of the Chesapeake and Yorktown | |
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| The Battle of Ushant | |
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| D'Estaing and Byron in the West Indies | |
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| Rodney in the West Indies: The Dominica Channel and The Saints | |
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| Suffren | |
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| The Peace Settlement | |
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| Prelude to Revolution | |
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| The Military Decline of France | |
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| Toward a Renewed French Army: Broglie and Guibert | |
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| The Problem of Indecisiveness in Battle: Infantry and Cavalry | |
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| The Problem of Indecisiveness in Battle: Artillery | |
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| The French Army and the Outbreak of Revolution | |
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| Thunderstrokes of Battle: the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars | |
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| The French Revolution: Transformation and Continuity in War | |
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| Revolution Generates War | |
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| Valmy | |
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| Carnot and the Nation in Arms | |
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| Hondschoote and Wattignies: The Emergence of Jourdan | |
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| The Revolutionary Armies on the Offensive: Tourcoing, Tournai, and Fleurus; Souham, Pichegru, and Jourdan | |
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| General Bonaparte on the Horizon | |
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| The Campaign of Germany in 1796: Jourdan and Moreau versus the Archduke Charles | |
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| Bonaparte in Italy, 1796: The Bridge at Lodi | |
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| Bonaparte in Italy, 1796-1797: Arcola and Rivoli | |
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| Sea Power and Empire | |
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| The Glorious First of June | |
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| The Irish Expedition of 1796 | |
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| Land Power over Sea Power: The Mediterranean, 1796-1797 | |
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| Cape St. Vincent: Jervis and Nelson | |
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| Camperdown | |
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| Bonaparte versus Nelson: The Egyptian Expedition and the Battle of the Nile | |
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| Mediterranean Anticlimax | |
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| Ebb and Flow in the Channel | |
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| The Armed Neutrals and the Battle of Copenhagen | |
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| The End of France's Egyptian Adventure | |
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| Nelson and the Preliminaries to Trafalgar | |
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| Barham at the Admiralty: A New Direction for Naval Strategy | |
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| Trafalgar | |
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| Nelson and Command at Sea | |
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| Command of the Sea | |
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| The Climax of Napoleonic War: To Austerlitz and Jena-Auerstadt | |
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| Suvorov in Italy, 1799: The Trebbia and Novi | |
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| Suvorov and Massena in Switzerland, 1799 | |
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| The First Consul's Military Reforms: The Corps System | |
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| The Crossing of the Alps and the Battle of Marengo | |
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| Moreau at Hohenlinden | |
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| The Peace of Amiens | |
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| Napoleon on the Eve of His Greatest Campaigns | |
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| The Ulm Campaign | |
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| The Austerlitz Campaign: Preliminaries | |
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| The Austerlitz Campaign: The Great Battle | |
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| The Jena-Auerstadt Campaign: Preliminaries | |
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| The Jena-Auerstadt Campaign: The Battles | |
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| The Gradual Eclipse of the Battle of Annihilation; The Rise of the War of Attrition | |
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| Eylau | |
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| Friedland | |
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| The Peace of Tilsit | |
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| The Iberian Disease | |
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| The Spanish Campaign of Sir John Moore | |
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| The Emergence of Wellington | |
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| The Military Resurgence of Austria | |
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| The Campaign of 1809: Eckmuhl and Ebelsberg | |
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| The Campaign of 1809: Aspern-Essling | |
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| The Campaign of 1809: Wagram | |
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| The Campaign of 1809: Resolution | |
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| Campaigns of Exhaustion and Attrition | |
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| The Lines of Torres Vedras | |
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| The Iberian Campaign of 1811: Attrition, Logistics, and Stalemate | |
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| The Invasion of Russia: Preliminaries | |
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| The Invasion of Russia: To Borodino | |
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| Moscow and the Terrible Retreat | |
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| Prussia's Reversal of Alliances and the Sixth Coalition | |
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| The Resurgence of Military Professionalism | |
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| The Prussian Military Reforms | |
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| Lutzen | |
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| Bautzen | |
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| The Dresden Campaign: A Threat to Berlin | |
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| The Dresden Campaign: Dresden, the Katzbach, and Kulm | |
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| The Dresden Campaign: Futile Maneuvers and the Battle of Dennewitz | |
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| Leipzig | |
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| The Downfall of Genius | |
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| The Spanish Campaign of 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Burgos | |
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| The Spanish Campaign of 1813: Vitoria | |
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| Through the Pyrenees and into France: Sorauren, the Nivelle, Orthes, Bayonne, Toulouse | |
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| The Peninsular War: An Assessment | |
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| Napoleon's 1814 Campaign of Maneuver: Sparring | |
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| Napoleon's 1814 Campaign of Maneuver: Laon, Paris, Fontainebleau | |
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| The End of an Age: Waterloo | |
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| The Campaign: Preliminaries | |
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| The Campaign: Quatre-Bras and Ligny | |
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| The Campaign: The Eve of Battle | |
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| Waterloo | |
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| On the Future of War | |
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| The Recalcitrant Indecisiveness of War | |
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| Battle and the Profession of Officership | |
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| Officer Professionalism and the Violence of War | |
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| Bibliographical Notes | |
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| Index | |