To browse Academia. This paper combines a very short history of the Anhalt Principalities and 29 biographies of the Dukes, Princes and other officers from the territories who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, This paper is a brief history of the Duchy of Arenberg and the three family members who fought or held officer rank rank during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, It was published on the Napoleon Series website between December and February The way in which Napoleon used cavalry to shape the battlefield and to support his infantry attacks made cavalry operations play a unique role in Napoleonic warfare.
Studying the cavalry operations during the decline of the Empire from through enabled an analysis not only of the capabilities of the soldiers and leadership of the French cavalry, but also a better understanding of the changes that occurred in Napoleon's operational and strategic art of warfare. This study required an analysis of cavalry operations in all of the major campaigns of the period.
The operations of General Francois-Etienne Kellermann from through provided an excellent case study of cavalry operations to analyze the changes in Napoleonic warfare. This detailed analysis presented different conclusions than many historians and questions much of the traditional interpretation of the capabilities and operations of Napoleon and his armies. He served well not just as a troop officer, but excelled in higher commanding ranks, too. The booty included reasonable amount of supply food.
Furthermore, he captured their hospital and its resources and a wounded French general. In April he captured the French positions with a commando.
After that, while completing a long march and fighting continuous advance- and rearguard actions, he defeated all his attackers. I describe the exact circumstances of this event which was very famous of that age and later on as well. This article investigates whether a military revolution took place in the German lands during the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods, with the potential to transform institutions and to alter contemporaries' attitudes not merely to war, but to politics and diplomacy.
