Lt.-Col. Elijah Adlow

The story of Napoleon's brilliant first campaign in Italy is here expertly recounted by Elijah Adlow, former Lieutenant Colonel in the US 26th Infantry Division. Of the many campaigns in which Napoleon participated, that in which he first exercised independent command is rich in example. In the Italian Campaign of 1796, students discover in amazing sequence those basic combinations upon which rest the structure of the art of war. What is more, the...