Featured battle : Verona

Part of French War of the Third Coalition

Date : 18 October 1805

As part of Napoleon's strategic plan the army of Italy under the command of Marshall Massena were to occupy and push back the Austrians in northern Italy. Massena was not particularly energetic in this matter but advanced on Verona. His First Division caught the Austrians on a low lying tongue of land surrounded on three sides by the river Adige [Etsch]. The French occupied the opposite banks of the river which dominated the position and brought up their field guns. The Austrians retreated. Massena followed up but without much drive.

The Global Seven Years War

Daniel Baugh
This book is no lightweight with 665 pages of really 'meaty' text and a further 81 pages of supporting notes and index. The content covers, in depth, the full nine years of the Seven Years War. The military, naval and the political aspects with their necessary interactions are well covered. The character, motivation and machinations of the leading figures are described as are the resultant effects. The book is without illustrations but has seventeen supporting maps. The narrative flows easily and logically and pages once started are difficult to put down because always there is something interesting coming next. The vast majority of the text is free from the author's opinions and comments which are reserved for the long final chapter.
A war of four continents and seven oceans in one excellent readable book.
Routledge, 2014