La Bataille d'Eylau

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the Battle of Eylau (7-8 February 1807), one of the most bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic wars between Napoléon's Grande Armée and a mostly Russian army under General Bennigsen near the town of Preußisch Eylau in East Prussia.
 
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A very well filmed war story.

It was an epic battle during the Napoleonic times!
 

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Napoleon was a tactical genius but a fool at strategy.

Only a fool would start a land war in Russia.

But then again Napoleon was one of the first military commanders to identify an intermediate level between tactics and strategy, which he called 'Grand Tactics' and what the early Soviet military theoreticians (who perfected it) called 'Operational Mobility'.
 

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Napoleon was credited with one of the pillars of Revolution in Military Affairs - Levée en masse.
 

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Levée en Masse, August 23, 1793

1. From this moment until that in which the enemy shall have been driven from the soil of the Republic, all Frenchmen are in permanent requisition for the service of the armies. The young men shall go to battle; the married men shall forge arms and transport provisions; the women shall make tents and clothing and shall serve in the hospitals; the children shall turn old linen into lint; the aged shall betake themselves to the public places in order to arouse the courage of the warriors and preach the hatred of kings and the unity of the Republic.

2. The national buildings shall be converted into barracks, the public places into workshops for arms, the soil of the cellars shall be washed in order to extract therefrom the saltpeter.

3. The arms of the regulation caliber shall be reserved exclusively for those who shall march against the enemy; the service of the interior shall be performed with hunting pieces and side arms.

4. The saddle horses are put into requisition to complete the cavalry corps the draft horses, other than those employed in agriculture, shall convey the artillery and the provisions.

5. The Committee of Public Safety is charged to take all necessary measures to set up without delay an extraordinary manufacture of arms of every sort which corresponds with the ardor and energy of the French people. It is, accordingly, authorized to form all the establishments, factories, workshops, and mills which shall be deemed necessary for the carrying on of these works, as well as to put in requisition, within the entire extent of the Republic, the artists and workingmen who can contribute to their success.

6. The representatives of the people sent out for the execution of the present law shall have the same authority in their respective districts, acting in concert with the Committee of Public Safety; they are invested with the unlimited powers assigned to the representatives of the people to the armies.

7. Nobody can get himself replaced in the service for which he shall have been requisitioned. The public functionaries shall remain at their posts.
 

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Point #2 reminded above me that the Confederate States had the soil around rural outbuildings excavated for the same purpose of extracting nitrate.
 
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