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23 - Jomini, Clausewitz and the Theory of War

from Part IV - The Aftermath and Legacy of the Wars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2022

By
Hew Strachan
Edited by
Alan Forrest  and
Peter Hicks
Alan Forrest
Affiliation:
University of York
Peter Hicks
Affiliation:
Fondation Napoléon, Paris
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On 21 August 1914, Karl von Einem passed the field of Waterloo. Formerly the Prussian minister of war, he was now commanding VII Corps in the German 2nd Army as it swung through Belgium towards northern France. This, he wrote, was ‘where the tragedy of Napoleon had reached its dramatic conclusion 99 years before’. Although visiting for the first time, von Einem felt he knew the ground well from his earlier studies of the battle, despite the changes to the Brussels road and the construction of the Lion pyramid. What did surprise him was how confined the battlefield was compared with what he anticipated in the war that had just begun.1

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The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars , pp. 475 - 493
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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