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10920, 292–6. - Clausewitz,On War, 494.
- See H. Otto,Gneisenau: Preussens unbequemer Patriot(Bonn: Keil, 1979), 178–9.
- Napoleon to Lannes, 7 October 1806,Correspondance, vol. xiii, no. 10961, 320–1.
- Napoleon to Soult, 10 October 1806,Correspondance, vol. xiii, no. 10980, 335–6.
- Above all, inPre ́cis de l’Art de la Guerre: Des Principales Combinaisons de la Strate ́gie, de
la Grande Tactique et de la Politique Militaire(Brussels: Meline, Cans et Copagnie,
1838). - Napoleon to Soult, 10 October 1806,Correspondance, vol. xiii, no. 10977, 332–4.
- Ibid., vol. xiii, no. 10980.
- On their deliberations, seeNotes on the Battle of Jena, by an Officer of the R. Staff
Corps (London: Naval and Military Press, n.d. [1827]), 11–17. - Based on van Creveld,Command in War, table 1, 88.
- On the way the Prussians fought, see F. N. Maude,The Jena Campaign(London:
Sonnenschein, 1909), 156. - See Martin van Creveld,The Culture of War(New York, NY: Presidio, 2008), 359–60.
- Quoted in Chandler,The Campaigns of Napoleon, 488.
- In the case under consideration this started happening from 1809 onwards; on this, see
R. M. Epstein,Napoleon’s Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War(Lawrence,
KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994). By 1813, even Napoleon conceded that ‘ces
animaux[i.e. the enemy]ont apprenu q’uelques choses’ (these animals have learnt
something). - Lao Tzu,Tao Te Chin, trans. S. Mitchell, verse no. 11hhttp://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.
edu/phalsall/texts/taote-v3.htmli.
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