Talk:Battle of Marengo

message: it looks a bit "literary" - are we confident it's non-copyright ?Rjccumbria 20:31, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Further to that, the more I read this the more I think it's some misguided American officer training "Great Battles of History" stuff.  It takes a special kind of mind to recount the performance of the French infantry that day and say it reflects credit on the officers.  Most of the French troops would have been with the colours since the levee en masse of 1793; they would have done 7 years' soldiering in a hard school. From that they would have known that not only is it sweet and proper to die for ones' country.. but ..anyway if you turn to run you'll get your death wound in the back It is hard to see them as requiring the presence of an officer to give them the required moral fibre.  It also takes a very strange mind to describe a Napoleonic killing ground as "the field of honour" Rjccumbria 00:53, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: this is the article text account before cleanup

message: Anyone know the source of this? My source says 963 killed and 5,500 wounded and about 3,000 captured. 6,000 killed seams rather high. --Bryson 21:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One-week and no one has posted a source for losses, I have added figures from Smith’s work. (Smith, D. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill Books, 1998.) --Bryson 18:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So now do we delete the line that says, "The Austrians fell back into Alessandria, having lost about half the forces they had committed."? Half of 31000 is way more than this by my calculation.  -Gomm 04:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe replace with: "The Austrians fell back into Alessandria, having lost about 9,500 kill, wounded, or captured" that way it matches with the source. --Bryson 04:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Source is Chandler Campaigns, p.296. Line should be replaced.Tttom1 (talk) 06:25, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  6,000 Austrians dead??? 

message: keeps adding, without edit summary, explanation, or discussion, a pipe on the wikilink to Habsburg Monarchy. This goes contrary to WP:EGG, since a wikilink that says Austria should generally take a reader to Austria when they click on it, and not suddenly find themselves at Habsburg Monarchy instead. It's also an issue of conciseness, which this edit takes away from. - Aoidh (talk) 21:08, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
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message: Isn't it clear that this was a creation of the propaganda of napoleon? Aozyk (talk) 01:32, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Decisive?

message: Currently it says, "The Austrian centre formed into a massive pursuit column in order to chase the French off the battlefield, with the advance guard commanded by GM Franz Xaver Saint-Julien. The column formed up around Spinetta, southeast of Marengo, and advanced down the New Road. However, delays in the flanks led to the Austrian army forming a crescent shape with a thinly stretched central sector." Is this a column, or a line? A column marching sideways would be a line. It doesn't seem to make sense for the flanks to be delayed causing a crescent shape unless it is a line.2601:1C0:CD00:184D:85EB:3E5D:8756:1327 (talk) 08:21, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear if Column or Line formation 

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