Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Prince de Ligne” in chapter 5 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.:
... enters into double lines of operations, upon which we are not to return.
Of all the operations of war, retreats are incontestably the most difficult.
It is so true that the celebrated Prince de Ligne said, with his accustomed spirit, that he did not see how an army succeeded in retiring.
When we reflect, indeed, upon the physical and moral condition in which an army finds itself when it fights ...
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