The Military Resources of Prussia and France: And Recent Changes in the Art of WarLongmans, Green, 1870 - 258 páginas |
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... direct copy , as far as circumstances allowed , of that harassing system of the American riflemen which their best officers had seen employed . with such success in the campaigns of Washington and Lafayette . Thus were born the new ...
... direct copy , as far as circumstances allowed , of that harassing system of the American riflemen which their best officers had seen employed . with such success in the campaigns of Washington and Lafayette . Thus were born the new ...
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... direct attacks , for the employment of sheer strength , and a certain con- tempt for the assistance of art and combinations requiring mental effort . He gained the victory , but at the cost of immense losses and with insignificant ...
... direct attacks , for the employment of sheer strength , and a certain con- tempt for the assistance of art and combinations requiring mental effort . He gained the victory , but at the cost of immense losses and with insignificant ...
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... direct across the Alps into Napoleon's rear in Lombardy , leaving his beaten enemies to be watched by a mere cordon of posts . There has been no bolder device in strategy at any time , and its audacity probably caused its rejection at ...
... direct across the Alps into Napoleon's rear in Lombardy , leaving his beaten enemies to be watched by a mere cordon of posts . There has been no bolder device in strategy at any time , and its audacity probably caused its rejection at ...
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... direct rightly ten or twenty thousand men in the heat of action ; but the power of knowing what his troops were capable of doing and enduring , of recognising their wants , and mak- ing the best provision for these which circumstances ...
... direct rightly ten or twenty thousand men in the heat of action ; but the power of knowing what his troops were capable of doing and enduring , of recognising their wants , and mak- ing the best provision for these which circumstances ...
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... direct the army , which knew no volition but that of this master will , swiftly and certainly to the decisive points of the whole theatre of war . Thus was introduced a system of combined strategy and tactics , which he himself , in ...
... direct the army , which knew no volition but that of this master will , swiftly and certainly to the decisive points of the whole theatre of war . Thus was introduced a system of combined strategy and tactics , which he himself , in ...
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