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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. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
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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. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Chapter 3: strategy. (search)
le each other absolutely. The French had four corps, which united into two great armies; as the king of Prussia had four divisions, which formed two armies at the debouches of the mountains. The two great corps took in their turn a concentric direction in 1794, upon Brussels, as Frederick and Schwerin had done in 1757, on Prague. The single difference which exists between these two plans, is that the Austrian troops, less disseminated, had in Flanders a position less extended than that of Braun in Bohemia, but this difference was certainly not in favor of the plan of 1794. This last had, moreover, against it the position of the North Sea; in order to outflank the right of the Austrians, it was ventured to send Pichegru between the shores of that sea and the mass of the hostile forces; the most dangerous and faulty direction that could be given to great operations. This movement was precisely the same as that of Benningsen. upon the Vistula base, which was near compromising the R
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he sponge being afterward subjected to moderate pressure to remove the surplus composition. No. 59,714, Doremus, November 13, 1866. Sponge is cut in small pieces, and is moistened with solution of Chloride of magnesium, or other deliquescent salt. No. 72,322, Paraf, December 17, 1867. The sponge, when purified, if too hard, is soaked in water containing from 10 to 20 per cent of glycerine, after which it is cut into small pieces and carded. It is then felted or spun. No. 102,760, Braun and Schmidt, describes a process for bleaching sponges, by treating them in a solution in water of permanganate of soda or potash and sulphate, or of other alkalies, and subsequently washing them in a solution of hyposulphite of soda or a bath of liquid or gaseous sulphurous acid. No. 101,776, Smith. A multiple sponge, composed of a series of small pieces of sponge, which are connected by concealed thread. No. 106,076, Ohlsen. A coach-cleaning sponge, consisting of a net filled wit