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twenty-five miles per day; and for only two or three days successively, with favorable roads, thirty miles per day may be calculated on.--The author mentions the following instances of rapid marches: The Roman infantry, in Scipio's African campaigns, frequently marched twenty miles in five hours, each soldier carrying from fifty to eighty pounds of baggage. Septimus Severus marched from Vienna to Rome, a distance of eight hundred miles, in forty days. Cæsar marched from Rome to the Sierra Morena, in Spain, a distance of four hundred and fifty leagues, twenty- three days. The French, for general activity during a campaign, have no rivals. In 1797, Napoleon, in less than four days, marched near fifty leagues, fought three battles, and captured more than twenty thousand prisoners. In the campaign of 1800 Macdonald, wishing to prevent the escape of London, marched in a single day forty miles, crossing rivers, and climbing mountains and glaciers. In 1805 the French in