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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)
and not he who might have taken the interior line. Moreover, the campaign which followed that of Leipzig, soon came to demonstrate the correctness of the contested maxims; Napoleon's defensive in Champagne, from the battle of Brienne to that of Paris, proved to a demonstration all that I could have said in favor of central masses. However, the experience of those two celebrated campaigns has given birth to a strategical problem, which it would be difficult to resolve by simple assertions fctory, and upon the fatal influence which it exercised in doubling the extent of the theatre of operations, and in making a single échiquier from the Texel to Naples, we cannot too much applaud the genius which inspired the cabinets of Vienna and Paris in the transactions which, for three centuries, had guaranteed the neutrality of Switzerland. Every one will be convinced of this truth, by reading with some attention the interesting campaigns of the Arch-Duke, of Suwaroff and of Massena in 179