An Ordinary Soldier On Campaign With Napoleon Summary

See the dead can change someone. In the writing of “An Ordinary Soldier on Campaign with Napoleon” Walter give hints of this and other things in it as a foreshadowing of future issue for the army as a whole. There is a great deal of information in his writing to be found about the idea of this. Walter’s work may also be able to give insight of how some of the basic foot soldiers were feeling and seeing under Napoleon’s command. The document reveals that some in the army were already losing their morale, that the writer did not want to be there, and what a soldier was seeing in the campaign. The biggest question to ask from Walter’s writing is how could a soldier under Napoleon be losing morale? This is the Napoleon that, “inspired almost fanatical loyalty” to him from the soldiers under him. He also shared in the experience of battle with his troops by being at the front. He had defeated

Walter was like many soldiers in the French Empire which he was, “conscripted into military service from one of the many western German states controlled by Napoleon” . This was not only limited to the German states, but any state that was controlled by the French at the time. Walter’s work shows his lack of desire to be there with his longing of “bread and beer” . He gives the reader a window into the eyes of the soldier who was forced to fight for a foreign power. He, and other soldiers like him, wanted to be home and away from it all. This kept them from their families and made them worry about them. Being there made it so they could not keep their family safe or take care of them. In Walter’s writing it is seen that he wanted to be home with his family, and he would do anything to get to them. Even though this feeling is only from him in the text his experience of being homesick and alone out there is not unique because other soldiers in this war feel the same as