HIS103Y1 Lecture : Napoleon4.docx
Document Summary
For the first time admitted a military defeat but blamed it on the weather. General york"s task to defend the flanks of communication of the grand armee. Prussian general left the door open to prussia. Once prussia gets ready for war, they would declare war vs napoleon by joining russia to free euroope from french influence and napoleonic control. Napoleon wanted to crush this 4th coalition, - the sooner tackle r and p, the better. If he allows them to challenge, then the rest of the continent would join and rise up vs. his empire. He managed to score 2 major victories in saxony. Yet these victories did not ensure strategy is to annihilate them, he did not wipe them out so they would be ready for another campaign. In both these battles, napoleon lost more soldiers, so they had to accepted a truce.
