total war (NW)

• Large geographic spread?


  Campaigns from Egypt to Spain to Russia
• Size of forces?


  600,000 in invasion of Russia and battle of Leipzig had the biggest of the 19th Century.
• Civilian targeting?


  Around 4 million died in French Wars of Unification and Napoleonic Wars
• Propaganda?


  Soldiers motivated by promise of 'booty'
• Scale of carnage?


  1805 onwards Napoleon extracted hundreds of millions of francs in contributions/taxes/tariffs from each defeated nation