HTST 489 Lecture Notes - Link River, Leading Edge, Heliograph

Military intelligence from napoleonic to american civil war. Friday: in terms of intelligence, seeing navies and armies starting to reflect developments in science and social development. Nelson and napoleon both approach intel systematically, collecting as much data as they can. Trying to makes those data points as precise as possible nelson"s weather log, Napoleon"s efforts to represent extraodinary detail about geospatial points on maps both following patterns of data collection and analysis at the leading edge of western states. Limits are obvious for nelson, if fleet is at sea, it"s hard to find. In napoleon"s case, uses information in a way no one has before. Application of this intellligence to planning for war and initial stages of attacking an enemy. Without question, most systematic approach we know of. Beyond that, core system, resting on numerical superiority over an enemy, make sure every possible means of moving is covered by your forces.