Can Napoleon reestablish himself in Europe? The troops of all the major European powers are marching against him! As he crosses the border into Belgium, the British and Prussians will try their luck. The Russians, Austrians, and many others are coming behind them. But the British have only a polyglot force; not the same army that beat the French on the Peninsula.

And the Prussians have been beaten before with their outmoded Frederician tactics! Round One is coming up...

DISTINCTIVE USE OF ARMS IN NAPOLEON'S ARMY

(selections from NAPOLEON'S ARMY by Col. H. C. B. Rogers--Hippocrene, 1982)

1. INFANTRY

The type of discipline which was adopted seems to have been designed to suit the French character and the individualism generated and fostered by the Revolution and the Republican regime...It was a loose type of discipline, then, based on a cult of the Emperor and the honour of the regiment, that formed the basis fo the French army's capacity for long marches and hard fighting; though generally badly fed, badly maintained, and badly paid...As they gained in experience, the French learned to vary their method of attack to suit circumstances."

2. CAVALRY

"Napoleon's use of his cavalry was masterly. He said himself: 'The use of cavalry demands boldness and ability, above all it should not be handled with any miserly desire to keep it intact." Unlike so many other generals (notably in the American Civil War) Napoleon did not use his cavalry for large-scale raids, or indeed for any long distant operations away from the main body of the army. The bulk of his heavy cavalry and dragoons formed...the reserve attack force of the field army--a battering ram to break a wavering enemy line and exploit the victory...The cavalry charge (was)...carried out in successive lines, with sufficient space between leading and supporting brigades so that, if the leading echelons were repulsed, there was roon to rally without disordering the ranks of the succeding waves."

3. ARTILLERY

The superiority of the French artillery was not due to its equipment, but to its tactical handling and to the efficiency and esprit de corps of its officers and men...(using) his own system of of a massive artillery reserve, in order to achieve massive artillery superiority at the decisive point...