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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Chapter 3: strategy. (search)
ttering this great army, it had been directed at once upon Turcoing, there could have been united in it a hundred battalions and a hundred and forty squadrons. What would have been the result then of the famous diversion of Pichegru, cut off from his frontiers, and shut up between the North Sea and two hostile fortresses? The plan of invasion of the French, had not only the radical defect of all exterior lines, it was faulty also in execution; the diversion on Courtrai took place the 26th of April, and Jourdan only arrived at Charleroi the 3d of June, more than a month afterwards. What a fine occasion for the Austrians to profit from their central position! I think, that had the Prussian army manoeuvered by its right, and the Austrian army by its left, that is to say, both upon the Meuse, affairs would have taken a very different turn; in fact, establishing themselves upon the centre of a disseminated line, their mass would certainly have prevented the union of its several parts