Introduction: The point of it all -- Boy soldier (1780-1795) -- The ambitious student of war (1795-1805) -- Clausewitz at war: The 1806 campaign -- A political education (1807-1812) -- War and words: the Campaign of 1812 -- The road to Taurrogen -- 1813: War, revolution, and armistice -- 1813: Leipzig, Gohrde, and the Stecknitz -- Clausewitz and the fall of Napoleon (1813-1814) -- 1815: The Waterloo campaign -- The sum of it all (1815-1831) -- Conclusion: Clausewitz's legacy -- Appendix: Clausewitz's battles.