Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Crassus” in chapter 1 of 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.:
...e advantages have limits fixed by nature even, and which it is necessary to guard against crossing, because one falls then into disastrous extremes.
Cambyses in Nubia, Darius among the Scythians, Crassus and the Emperor Julian among the Parthians, finally, Napoleon in Russia, furnish bloody testimony to those truths.
It must be owned, nevertheless, the mania for conquest was not always the only mot...
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