Napoleon and Caesar :: European Europe History

Napoleon and CaesarNapoleon Bonap imposturees success as a military leader and conqueror can also be seen in another great leader, Julius Caesar. Both Napoleon and Caesar achieved great glory by bringing their countries out of turmoil. It was Caesar, that Napoleon modeled himself after, he wanted to be as great, if not greater than Caesar.Looking to the past, Napoleon knew what steps to shoot for in order to achieve success Napoleon devoured books on the art of contend. Volume after volume of military theory was read, analyzed and criticized. He studied the campaigns of historys more or less 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 Romans who changed the course of history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. Caesar was able to create the Roman Empire beca implement of his strength and his strong war strategies (Duggan 117). Jul ius Caesar was to become one of the greatest generals, conquering the whole of frog. In 58 BC, Caesar became g everywherenor and military commander of Gaul, which included modern France, Belgium, and portions of Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the Rhine. For the abutting 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 transition from republic to empire (Duggan 84). Caesars principles were to keep his forces united to be vulnerable at no point, to strike speedily at fine points to rely on moral factors, such as his reputation and the charge he inspired, as well as political means in order to insure the loyalty of his eachies and the submissiveness of the conquered nations. He made use of every possible opportunity to increase his chances of victory on the discipline and, in order to accomplis h this, he needed unity of all his troops (Duggan 117).From the time that he had first faced battle in Gaul and discovered his own military genius, Caesar was evidently fascinated and obsess by military and imperial problems. He gave them an absolute priority over the more delicate by no less fundamental problem of revising the Roman constitution. The need in the latter sphere was a solution which would introduce such elements of authoritarianism, which were necessary to check corruption and administrative weakness (Grant, Caesar 61).