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This covers the year 1800.

We get Napoleon's first year as First Consul, and the two campaigns that drive Austria out of the 2nd Coalition.

On the British side we get the Act of Union and the combination of the Irish and British Parliaments. Naturally, we get Catholic Emancipation as a consequence.

What? NO? we don't. Oh, that's gonna be weird.

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A rapidly thrown together expedition to the Batavian Republic in expelled by the French.

And yet, there were key successes and innovations that point the way to the future. We'll focus on these as we cover the events of the invasion itself.

The new Light Infantry doctrine of the British Army, that John Moore and the Duke of York push through the Army, over all their resistance to change, is part of the package that makes British infantry the best in the world by 1808. Many of the lessons learned, were learned in this campaign.

Also, there was the experience of relying on the reverse slope, where in the 2nd battle, the British infantry were able to inflict 2,000 Franco-Batavian casualties at the cost of only 37 dead.

Many more lessons learned and the end of the Dutch fleet as a threat were the major results.

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This covers the 1799 campaigns in Italy and Switzerland and Suvorov's art of war. The title is a play on Clausewitz's work on the topic, and Clausewitz is a major source.

Massena, Moreau, Joubert and Jourdan try to fight campaigns dominated by the presence of Suvorov the greatest Russian commander of all times.

Suvorov dominates Italy, defeating three French armies in 3 major battles.

Archduke Charles begins the campaign in Switzerland, defeating Jourdan, eventually driving him into retirement. But Massena is a more difficult opponent.

The Aulic Council makes one of history's great unforced errors. Leaving Rimsky-Korsakov (no, not him, his father though) to face Massena alone. Scheherazade cannot save him.

We end with some of Suvorov's writings on warfare, including excerpts from his: How to Win, an Address to Soldiers in their own Language.