Napoleon's Italian Campaigns By Fredrick Schneid

A Review of Napoleon’s Italian Campaigns 1805-1815

Fredrick C. Schneid’s book, Napoleon’s Italian Campaigns 1805-1815, is a nonfiction work focused on the military campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy. Napoleon is known for many of his battles and his victories, such as when he defeated and evicted the Austrian army between 1796-1797. However, Napoleon’s military strategies and campaigns throughout Italy between 1805-1815 are far less known. This work gives details of the Battle of Caldiero (1805), the Battle of Maida (1806), the Battle of Sacile (1809), the Battle of Raab (1809), the Battle of Wagram (1809), the Battle of Mincio (1814), and the Battle of Tolentino (1815). Overall, this main point of this book is to give readers a greater understanding of the campaigns occurring in Italy over this time period and how they affected the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. Dr. Fredrick C. Schneid is the Department Chair and Professor of History at High Point University. Along with teaching history classes, Schneid also has a specialty in both the

After some thought and doing more research on Fredrick C. Schneid, I think the main point he was Schneid was trying to convey to readers was that these battles, the Italian Campaigns, played a major role in Napoleon’s downfall. Many of these battles and campaigns are overlooked for the bigger, more well-known battles Napoleon is known for. Schneid, being an expert in both the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, felt like he needed to bridge the gap not covered by most history books because he believes these battles were just as significant to the fall of Napoleon. A point that Schneid gives in the acknowledgements section of his book, “I wrote this book many years ago believing that a history of the Napoleonic Wars in Italy was long overdue.” , furthered my belief that this was why he chose to write this