How Napoleon encourage his army?

Answer 1

He used many systems to encourage his army:

- emanated proclamations to the troops, explaining the aims of the campaign in being;

- on the eve of a major battle, he visited the camps and the bivouacs, conversing with the soldiers and sometimes he was able to recognize someone of them and the battle in which they fought;

- after a battle he visited the wounded, showing himself of being interested about their conditions; he then made introduce to him those among rank and file, who had distinguished themselves for their behaviour on the field, rewarding them with medals of merit, some money and promoting the bravest to a higher rank;

- he used to remind the soldiers that each one of them had in his knapsack the Marshal's baton, thereby making them understand the greater the courage and the spirit of initiative they would show, the higher would be the rank at which they could be promoted, regardless of the social class to which they belonged.

And it kept that promise, keeping their morale high and creating in his armies

a spirit of emulation and trust that motivated everyone to give the best of themselves.