Owen Connelly is McKissick Dial Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, as well as being a Director of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe. He is the author of ten books, including Napoleon's Satellite Kingdoms (third edition, 1990), The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era (third edition, 1999), Blundering on to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns (second edition, 1999) and On War and Leadership: The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf (2002).