Operational art -- The War of the First Coalition and the birth of modern operational art -- Coalition operational art in 1799: Suvorov and Masséna in Italy and Switzerland -- Artists of the waves: the Royal Navy, Nelson, and operational art at sea -- Napoleon ascendant: Jomini and Clausewitz in harmony -- The empires strike back: symmetry returns to the operational level of war -- Napoleonic total war in Spain and Russia: 1810-1812 -- Operational art and the campaign of 1813 -- Epilogue: the twilight of Napoleonic operational art: France 1814 and Waterloo.