Napoleon and Caesar :: European Europe History

Napoleon and CaesarNapoleon Bonapartes success as a forces attraction and conqueror can also be seen in a nonher massive leader, Julius Caesar. Both Napoleon and Caesar achieved great glory by bringing their countries push through of turmoil. It was Caesar, that Napoleon mode take himself after, he wanted to be as great, if not greater than Caesar.Looking to the past, Napoleon knew what steps to take in guild to achieve success Napoleon devoured books on the art of war. Volume after volume of armament theory was read, analyzed and criticized. He studied the campaigns of historys about famous commanders Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Frederick the Great and his favorite and most influential, Julius Caesar (Marrin 17).Julius Caesar was the strong leader for the papistics who changed the course of history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. Caesar was able to acquire the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies (Duggan 117). Julius Caesar was to become iodine of the greatest generals, conquering the whole of Gaul. In 58 BC, Caesar became governor and military commander of Gaul, which included modern France, Belgium, and portions of Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the Rhine. For the next eight years, Caesar led military campaigns involving both the Roman legions and tribes in Gaul who were often competing among themselves. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Romes alteration from republic to empire (Duggan 84). Caesars principles were to keep his forces united to be vulnerable at no point, to strike speedily at critical points to rely on moral factors, such as his reputation and the fear he inspired, as well as political means in narrate to turn back the loyalty of his allies and the submissiveness of the conquered nations. He made use of every thinkable opportunity to increase his chances of victory on the battlefield and, in order to accomplish thi s, he needed unity of all his troops (Duggan 117).From the meter that he had first faced battle in Gaul and spy his own military genius, Caesar was evidently fascinated and obsessed by military and imperial problems. He gave them an absolute priority over the more weak by no less fundamental task of revising the Roman constitution. The need in the latter sphere was a solution which would enwrap such elements of authoritarianism, which were necessary to check corruption and administrative weakness (Grant, Caesar 61).