2007-02-03 18:30:47 · 4 answers · asked by Lai Yu Zeng 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
From theFrench Military College, he learnt the works of Niccolo Machiaveli of 1512-13, the campaigns of Frederick the Great, Malborough, and Jacques Francois de Chastenet. The most inspiring works of war he had learnt must that from Comte de Guibert written during the Seven Year War in 1790's.He was particularly concerned the works of Prussian officer Heinrich von Buelow. In later years, he studied the works of Karl von Clausewitz's the Arts of War . It was rumoured that after his captured and a kept prisoner in St Helena, he was presented a translated copy of Sun Tzu's Art Of War, and lamented that if had read it before the Waterloo, he would have won the war.
2007-02-03 22:11:58 · answer #1 · answered by old timer cheetah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Young Napoleon was sent (1779) to French military schools at Brienne and Paris. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant of artillery and took up his new duties in January 1786 at the age of 16.
2007-02-04 03:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by greβ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From the French military college and during his time as a soldier.
2007-02-04 07:42:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the woman named Josephine, another are side kicks who frequent remote areas to observe pulse of poeple.
2007-02-04 02:48:25 · answer #4 · answered by wilma m 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋