latour count baillet (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Jacques Charmoz and Wayne Davis and Carl Von Diebitsch and W. Russell Flint ect. (illustratore). First Edition. Limited edition of 950 copies. Dust jacket is in poor condition, heavily worn, spotted, tears, front flap held on by tape, in a protective cover, it did it's job though as the covers are crisp and clean. Occasional spot. Oversize.

Folio. 12 pp. Together with a French manuscript of planned troop movements (2 pp.). Very extensive letter by the later Minister of War, then colonel in the 12th Infantry Regiment and assigned to the general staff of field marshal Prince Karl Philipp Schwarzenberg. Latour gives a detailed report of a secret audience with the Emperor, during which they discussed the military situation. Merely three weeks later, on 12 August, Austria was to declare war on France; mid-October was to see the decisive Battle of Leipzig, in which Schwarzenberg led the coalition armies against Napoleon.