Anning stroked his chin, pacing back and forth in the room.
To be honest, he didn't want to go back, because he was familiar with the entire process in Italy.
After all, he had extensively studied Napoleon's military history; key positions in Italy had all been sites of major battles for Napoleon, so Anning knew exactly which places were important.
Returning meant mainly facing the direction of the Rhein, where Napoleon's military history recorded very few major battles.
After all, the French Army, in the war against the Anti-France Alliance, had taken the Low Countries very early on, and by the time Napoleon came to power, the Netherlands was already within France's sphere of influence.
Austerlitz, of course, was a major battle, but that was deep inside Austrian territory.
Really, the only large-scale war Napoleon fought in that area was Waterloo.
