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Military Maxises of Napoleon.
Tents are injurious to health.
It is much better for the soldier to bivouac, because he then sleeps with his feet to the fire, which quickly dries the ground on which he lies.
A few boards or a little straw shelter him from the wind.
Tents, however, are necessary for the leaders, who have to write and consult the map. They should be given, therefore, to the superior officers, who should be ordered never to lodge in a house.
Tents attract the observation of the enemy's staff, and make known your numbers and the position you occupy.
But of an army bivouacking in two or three lines, nothing is perceived at a distance except the smoke, which the enemy confounds with the mist of the atmosphere.
He cannot count the fires.
Nothing is more important in war than unity in command.
When, therefore, you are carrying on hostilities against a single power only, you should have but one army, acting on one line, and led by one commander.
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