NAPOLEONS CAMPAIGNS IN ITALY 1796-1797 and 1800 by BRIGADIER-GENERAL R. G. BURTON. First published in 1912. PREFACE: THE historian Gibbon tells us that war and the ad ministration of affairs are the principal subjects of history. In the opening campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte we see the conduct of events by a master of both. Especially instructive to the soldier is the first series of operations conducted by the greatest master of the art of war, whose very name sounds like a trumpet-call, and whose genius illuminates one of the most lurid and marvellous epochs in the history of the world. In...