The Wars Against Napoleon: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars by General Michel

Author:General Michel
Language: rus
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: non.fiction, History
ISBN: 9781611210293
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2007-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Britain Saved by its Navy at Trafalgar

With due allowance for the differences, the Franco-British confrontation may be compared to that between Rome and Carthage during the Punic Wars, with the leading land power opposed to the leading maritime power. Napoleon found himself in some ways in the situation of Scipio, forced to defeat Hannibal at Zama in 202 B.C., with the slogan “delenda Carthago”—Carthage must be destroyed.

Yet, the first important difference was that Napoleon’s war aim was not to annihilate and conquer the new Carthage and its allies, but solely to destroy their armed forces, in order to dissuade them from recommencing the war. One cannot over-emphasize the limited character of Napoleonic geo-strategy, laid down as a fundamental principle.

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