This is a history and a text book in which each chapter deals with a
single aspect of the campaign and is followed by Notes on the chapter.
Thus the book opens with the plan of campaign followed by a chapter of
notes and comment, and then goes on to compare the opposing armies with
accompanying notes. After that the author provides a day-by-day account,
looking at the action or events from the French side and then the same
action or events from the Allied side. There are a number of interesting
appendices with examples of correspondence, orders issued by commanders
on both sides and extracts from reports/despatches, all in the language
in which they were written at the time. The author was an American
historian (died 1899) and this book is regarded as a standard work.