Military Strategy of Carnot

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http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_carnot.html

The plan was to pin down the troops in their fortifications while encouraging the Austrians to split their forces. The Austrians would then be defeated piecemeal. This was successful in the past. It just so happened that, this time, Austrians got smart and instead attacked the French columns one at a time.

In Carnot's credit, his generals were pursuing a retreating enemy and he was probably trying not to restrain their aggressiveness.

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