Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West.
Chance no longer appeared exceptional but normative-a prism for understanding the modern world..
Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconsider what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge.
Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West