Defeating the Prussian army at the battles of Jéna and Auerstädt ... But as 1806 drew to a close, Napoleon was still at war. Austria and Prussia had both surrendered, but the Russians ...

Advance elements of the Prussian army were beginning to reach ... The first time in the whole history of the Napoleonic wars the Guard was seen to falter and then eventually fall back, shouting ...

his attempted encirclement of General Bennigsen's Russian army near the East Prussian town of Eylau led, instead, to one of the most notorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in terrible ...

This comprehensive approach, provides an excellent introduction to the Prussian military system, and is also a useful adjunct to various recent general accounts of the 1866 war and as a primer on ...