and more often in vain. the legion was created primarily to gather up some of the foreign deserters and criminals who had drifted to france in the aftermath of the napoleonic wars. it was discovered that these men, who were said to threaten civil society, could be induced to become professi...
It was a war of considerable movement, for it was conducted according to the strategic conception of the 18th century, which advocated maneuver and countermaneuver to contain an enemy, rather than the Napoleonic strategy of striking at the enemy’s main force regardless of losses. Armies of the...