France shattered the formal clockwork armies of Prussia and Austria in a new fluid style of war that emphasised movement in column over the ridged drillwork of the 18th century lines of battle that gave those armies a tactical straight jacket from which they could not escape. The elan and dash of the French Army gave it an advantage that place all of continental Europe under her heel for more than 10 years. The generalship of Napoleon stunned the world and only the combined weight of all the allies backed with British gold, having learn the new style of war, made it inevitable through hugely larger armies that in the Waterloo campaign of 1815 the dream of empire ended.
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