Almost 600 years separated the rise of Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte--The former finalizing his claim to power at the demise of the Kereit in 1203, and the latter excepting the lead role in the coup d'etat in 1799. When general, simplified principles are observed, one can already distinguish a common thread that linked the two great warriors. Amazingly, their common strategies were implied despite army organizations were anything but similar. The Mongolian Army was cavalry "pure," that is, the Mongolians fought from horseback and were masters at horsemanship and archery, and relied very little on (and not until after Genghis' successes) the augmentation of infantry forces from the subjugated territories. Napoleon, as was one of his many claims to fame, especially as his rise to power paralleled the rise in gunpowder-related panoplies of Europe, relied heavily on his own mastery of artillery (no less than nine of his maxims relate to the artillery or artillery officer roles). …
