1. In 1798, at time of the establishment of the Helvetic Republic, Antoine-Henri Jomini was an eager revolutionary and an associate of Frederic-Cesar de La Harpe.
18 Facts About Antoine-Henri Jomini
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Antoine-Henri Jomini soon found a position in the new Swiss government as a secretary for the Minister of War with the rank of captain.
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In 1799, after being promoted to the rank of major, Antoine-Henri Jomini took responsibility for reorganizing the operations of the ministry.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini found the job uninteresting and spent most of his time preparing his first book on military theory: Traite des grandes operations militaires.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini served in the 1805 campaign by serving on Ney's staff.
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In 1806, Antoine-Henri Jomini published his views as to the conduct of the impending war with Prussia.
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That, along with his knowledge of Frederick the Great's campaigns, which Antoine-Henri Jomini had described in the Traite, led Napoleon to attach him to his own headquarters.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini was present with Napoleon at the Battle of Jena and at the Battle of Eylau, where he won the cross of the Legion of Honour.
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For some years thereafter, Antoine-Henri Jomini held both a French and a Russian commission, with the consent of both sovereigns.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini was thus engaged when the retreat from Moscow and the uprising of Prussia transferred the seat of war to central Germany.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini promptly rejoined Ney and took part in the Battle of Lutzen.
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How far Antoine-Henri Jomini was responsible for certain misunderstandings that prevented the attainment of all the results hoped for from Ney's attack at Bautzen is unknown.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini succeeded in overcoming the resistance of his enemies and took part in the Congress of Vienna.
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In 1853, after trying without success to bring about a political understanding between France and Russia, Antoine-Henri Jomini was called to St Petersburg to act as a military adviser to the Tsar during the Crimean War.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini returned to Brussels upon the conclusion of peace in 1856.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini was busily employed up to the end of his life in writing treatises, pamphlets and open letters on subjects of military art and history.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini dealt at length with a number of practical subjects that Clausewitz had largely ignored.
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Antoine-Henri Jomini took the view that the amount of force deployed should be kept to the minimum in order to lower casualties and that war was not an exact science.