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NAPOLEON -- INVASION OF ENGLAND
General Jean Victor MOREAU (1763-1813). Autograph manuscript draft, unsigned, '6 Germinal an 6' [26 March 1798], of A MEMORANDUM ADDRESSED TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE ATTEMPTING TO CONVINCE HIM OF THE FEASIBILITY OF AN INVASION OF ENGLAND, numerous emendations, deletions and cancellations, a few pencilled annotations in an undentified hand, 2½ pages, folio, on a bifolium (some wear at margins, traces of guards).
'IL N'Y A PEU DE FRANCOIS QUI DE PUIS LONGTEMS NE DESIRENT UNE DESCENTE EN ANGLETERRE'. Moreau argues first of all for the desirability of an invasion of England, before considering the major obstacle, 'la superiorité de la marine militaire de notre ennemi', which would pose considerable problems in the supply chain: this could be circumvented by the use of field ordnance of the same calibre as the British (which Moreau gives, from memory). The great advantage on the French side is 'l'etendue immense de Cotes que nous possedons', so that landings could be carried out, or at least threatened, in a number of places at once. The recent introduction of telegraphy would be of critical use in coordinating these attacks.
Jean-Victor Moreau, the victor of Hohenlinden, was, after Bonaparte, probably the most celebrated French general of the early revolutionary wars. Napoleon, fresh from his astonishing successes in Italy, was appointed at the beginning of 1798 to the task of invading England; the inadequacy however of the French naval forces at his disposition convinced him that the Egyptian expedition, and the attempt to cut at British economic power through her possessions in the East, offered a more compelling prospect.
General Jean Victor MOREAU (1763-1813). Autograph manuscript draft, unsigned, '6 Germinal an 6' [26 March 1798], of A MEMORANDUM ADDRESSED TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE ATTEMPTING TO CONVINCE HIM OF THE FEASIBILITY OF AN INVASION OF ENGLAND, numerous emendations, deletions and cancellations, a few pencilled annotations in an undentified hand, 2½ pages, folio, on a bifolium (some wear at margins, traces of guards).
'IL N'Y A PEU DE FRANCOIS QUI DE PUIS LONGTEMS NE DESIRENT UNE DESCENTE EN ANGLETERRE'. Moreau argues first of all for the desirability of an invasion of England, before considering the major obstacle, 'la superiorité de la marine militaire de notre ennemi', which would pose considerable problems in the supply chain: this could be circumvented by the use of field ordnance of the same calibre as the British (which Moreau gives, from memory). The great advantage on the French side is 'l'etendue immense de Cotes que nous possedons', so that landings could be carried out, or at least threatened, in a number of places at once. The recent introduction of telegraphy would be of critical use in coordinating these attacks.
Jean-Victor Moreau, the victor of Hohenlinden, was, after Bonaparte, probably the most celebrated French general of the early revolutionary wars. Napoleon, fresh from his astonishing successes in Italy, was appointed at the beginning of 1798 to the task of invading England; the inadequacy however of the French naval forces at his disposition convinced him that the Egyptian expedition, and the attempt to cut at British economic power through her possessions in the East, offered a more compelling prospect.
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