Essay About Great Leader And Julius Caesar

Caesar and Naopoleon
Essay title: Caesar and Naopoleon
Napoleon
Bonapartes success as a military leader and conqueror can also be seen in
another
great leader, Julius Caesar. Both Napoleon and Caesar achieved great glory
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 take in order to achieve
success
Napoleon devoured books on the art of war. Volume after volume of
military
theory was read, analyzed and criticized. He studied the campaigns
of historys most
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 because of his strength and his strong war strategies
(Duggan 117).
Julius Caesar was to become one of the greatest generals,
conquering the whole of Gaul.
In 58 BC, Caesar became governor and military
commander of Gaul, which included
modern France, Belgium, and portions of
Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the
Rhine. For the next 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 critical points;
to rely on moral factors, such as his reputation and the
fear he inspired,
as well as political means in order to insure the loyalty of his allies and
submissiveness of the conquered nations. He made use of every possible
opportunity to
increase his chances of victory on the battlefield and, in
order to accomplish 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 obsessed by military
and imperial problems.
He gave them an absolute priority over the more delicate
by no less fundamental task 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).
The story of all his battles and wars has been
preserved in Caesars