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The Grand Armoured Campaign
The grand arme would be divided into seven corps, each containing between 19 and thirt thousand men. Most storians mark this as the beginning of a new war, the war of the fourth coalition. But in many ways, it was just a widening of the old war, another phase in an ongoing struggle. The army marched north but where were the prussians? In the last campaign, napoleon's intelligence had been extraordinarily good. His light cavalry officers had spent months mapping the routes through southern germany. And his great spy, karl schulmeister, had tried to penetrate the austrian headquarters. He survived, but later in the campaign, he was captured by