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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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 1: the policy of war. (search)
s, that population of which might be more or less neutral, doubtful or hostile. Wars of invasion, made through a spirit of conquest, are not unfortunately always the most disadvantageous; Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon, in the half of his career, have only too well proved this. However, those 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 motive of the conduct of the latter; his personal position, and his struggle with England urged him to enterprises, the evident object of which was to come out victorious in this struggle; love of war and its hazards was manifest in him, but he was still drawn on by necessity to bend under England o
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 122 (search)
— this helter-skelter rush to Richmond --is rather remarkable than otherwise. Nearly two hundred miles to advance through hostile territory is an exceedingly long distance, comparatively, as those have found, doubtless, who have penetrated about one-eighth as far, to retrace their footsteps under these untoward results. And suppose — here comes a lesson from history again — suppose, we say, that Beauregard and his advisers had adopted the tactics of the Parthians toward the Roman consul, Crassus — suppose they had coaxed along toward Richmond the brave but inadequate force lately defeated, and then turned upon and suddenly and completely destroyed them, what then would have been the condition of the questions at issue to-day? They might have done it. Onward to Richmond! has been the senseless battle-cry which has stunned the ears of the nation for weeks past, and the authorities at Washington may consider themselves fortunate that the case for them is no worse. It is not our
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
glo-Saxon, seolc, and so on. The first ancient Western author who mentions it distinctly is Aristotle; in his time it is believed to have been imported in skeins from Asia and woven in Cos. The references to it in later authors are numerous. Crassus found that the Parthian troops had silken flags attached to gilt standards. The silken and embroidered robes of Cleopatra are celebrated by various authors, — Lucan, for instance. It long remained an expensive luxury: Heliogabalus, it is said,authors. Tulloch's stone-saw. Pliny informs us that he knew of no building faced with marble of greater antiquity than the palace of Mausolus, king of Caria, described by Vitruvius. This was erected 350 B. C. According to one authority, Crassus was the first Roman who embellished his house with marble, about 90 B C., but it soon afterward became common, and several of the palaces of the Caesars were made of it. Cornelius Nepos states that Mamurra (at a little later date) was the first
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Lesson from history. (search)
ich the Commonwealth might incur by such a proceeding. But when he found Scipio every day increasing in the esteem of the people, envy then, and ambition, took hold of him, which made him so violent in his opposition. For he applied himself to Crassus, the colleague of Scipio, and persuaded him not to yield that province to Scipio, but that (if his inclinations were for that war) he should himself in person lead the army to Carthage. He also hindered the giving money to Scipio for the war, who was forced to raise it on his own credit and interest, and was supplied by the cities of hetrusia, which were wholly devoted to him. On the other side, Crassus would not stir against him, nor remove out of Italy, as being in his own nature an enemy to striate and contention, and also as having the care of religion by his office of high priest. Wherefore Fabius tried other wave to break the design; he declaimed both in the Senate and to the people that Scipio did not only himself fly from Ha