...nt will take the pains to examine the history of wars, down to the very present day, he will find this to be true. General Grant doubtless remembers, from his readings, that the Athenian general, Demosthenes , led the Athenians against the Syracusans in the night-time, and was successful after having been defeated in the daytime. He will find, too, that Alexander the Great, prior to the battle of Arbela...