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Campanian on the Southern coast.
--The Opinion of the Iron Duke.--During the war of 1812 the English Government appealed to the Duke of Wellington, then in the maturity of his military genius, to furnish a plan of campaign suited to the American country.--The Duke replied:
"In such countries as America, very extensive, thinly peopled, and producing but little food in proportion to their extent, military operations by large bodies are impracticable, unless the party carrying them on has the uninterrupted use of a navigable river or very extensive means of land transportation, which such a country can rarely supply.
I conceive, therefore, that were your army larger than even the proposed augmentation would make it, you could not quit the lakes (of Canada) and indeed you would be lied to them, the more necessarily in proportion as your army would be large.
Then as to landings upon the coast, they are liable to the same objections, to a greater degree, than an offensive opera