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Austerlitz made Napoleon legendary, but the plan depended on Davout arriving quickly enough to hold the right flank.
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Davout
Jiang treats Davout and Napoleon's officer bench as the decisive execution layer beneath Napoleon's vision.
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Austerlitz should not have worked because Davout needed an unprecedented 110-kilometer march in 48 hours and still had to fight fresh.
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Jiang treats Davout and Napoleon's officer bench as the decisive execution layer beneath Napoleon's vision.
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"But not only that, but B requires the capacity to ignore social values and focus on what is good by itself. Okay? That's why..."
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"So Napoleon needs to act first and knock out both Russia and Austria before the Prussians come in. Because Prussia is considered at this..."
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"Okay? But, and so what the coalition forces are going to do is this. They see the right flank of Napoleon. It's weak. So..."
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"The right flank needs to hold against the coalition attack. Otherwise, the coalition will just sweep in and outflank Napoleon. Napoleon has this plan..."
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"Okay? Okay? Usually in the battlefield, the army fights as one unit. What's amazing about Napoleon is he's able to divide his forces into..."
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"Okay? Think about that. This is the best army in the world. The Prussians will do 20 kilometers in one day. The Vaux is..."
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"But you know what? There could have been rain. Right? He could have gotten lost. An army could have come in and blocked his..."
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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