Excerpt from From Boulogne to Austerlitz: Napoleon's Campaign of 1805 This plan shows his genius at its full height. The idea which underlay his landing was perfectly correct; it was German a putting into practice of the highest rules of Views on war, namely, try to put your strong points as V351 to time and Space against the enemy's weak points.' Napoleon's strength lay in his army and war on land England's strength consisted in its fleet and in war at sea; to attack her in such a way that his strength might be brought to bear was, therefore, assuredly good strategy. Napoleon has been condemned because the execution of his plan is said to have been impossible. But if we remember all that has been declared impossible in the history of the world by contemporaries, and yet was achieved by the power of genius, who can say that a landing of his army in England would have been an impossibility for Napoleon? Hannibal's great plan of crossing the Alps and attacking Rome in Italy and conquering it there, would perhaps have been considered impossible now had it remained a plan only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.