4b- Military Flashcards
(9 cards)
First stage of Egyptian campaign, 1798, and outcomes?
Evades Nelson in the Med, gains Malta, drags Russia in.
Middle stage of the 1798 Egyptian campaign?
Victory at Battle of Pyramids (speed of march) and loss at Aboukir Bay.
Final stage of the 1798 Egyptian campaign?
Enters Syria, abortive siege of Acre but victory at Mount Tabor v Turks.
Four reasons for victory in Italy (1796-97)?
Speed to Piedmont. Alps decision wrong footed them. Inspires tired army. Disunity of Austrian command.
Victories and limitations of those victories in Italian campaign, 1796-97?
Arcola, Mantua (not entered post siege), Lodi (already withdrawing), does not gain Venice, and peace offered prior to Vienna entry.
Two outcomes of the Italian campaign 1796-97?
Peace of Campo Formio, gains of Austrian NL and Northern Italy.
Four instances of opposition failures in command?
Disunity of Austrians in Italy, 1796-97 and 1800. General Mack at Ulm, 1805, wrongly chooses to hold defensive position. Tsar overrules Kutozov’s battlefield choice at Austerlitz, 1805. Duke of Brunswick at Jena Auerstadt, 1806, is ineffective.
Three instances of artillery being influential in victory, and one of it being influential in defeat?
Battle of the Pyramids, 1797. Toulon, 1793. Vendemiaire, 1795. (But Borodino, 30,000 French losses.)
Three examples of effective tactics and strategy?
Marengo, 1800, wrong foot over the Alps. Ulm, 1805, Murat’s feint and Napoleon’s army up North (encirclement). Austerlitz, 1805, concentrate guns and blow through.
