A couple of points in response to Richard Stubbs' request for information about the Confederation troops in 1796-99. There isn't much on the War of the Second Coalition. Dr Chris Duffy, who wrote Austerlitz 1805, is having a book on Suvarov published around the end of this year or early 1997. Also of course, George Nafziger's guide on the Russians is out in two parts covering 1763-1815. Furse's Marengo and Hohenlinden (reprint, Worley 1993) is mostly based on French accounts, but does make use of the Austrian Militärische Zeitschrift (a quarterly military history newsletter produced by the War Archive in the earlier part of the 19th Century), albeit in a French translation. For the Austrian army there is Rothenberg Napoleon's Great Adversary (reprint, Spellmount 1995) and there is a good account based on a wide range of material in Vol 5 of Phipps' The Armies of the First French Republic (1926-39 5 vols). AB Rodger's The War of the Second Coalition (1964) is a mainly Anglo-French political history and only offers an overview of the flow of the war. Another interesting book is J Sherwig Guineas and Gunpowder. British Foreign Aid in the Wars with France' (1969) and, last seen in the British Library, Shadwell Mountain Warfare (1875), which looks at the 1799 campaign mainly in Switzerland and western Austria, including the campaign history written by Archduke Charles, although it doesn't contain OBs. DH.

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