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so many of this writer's brilliant military suggestions come to sorrow in the enactment, that we cannot but hope this one may meet with the same fate. That it is a genuine exposition of the intended campaign, we have no doubt. At the same time, we know that nothing is more dangerous than for a military force to place itself in the rear of a great army, in this way, when from the very nature of things it cannot possibly communicate with the army acting in front. In the Seven Years War, General Finck, with a force of 14,000 men — by the command of Frederick himself — got in the rear of Daun's army, and was compelled to surrender with the whole force. There have been many similar instances — so many that Napoleon pronounces it one of the most dangerous operations in war. In 1809, before Ratisbon, when the Austrians were advancing on Davoust, who held that city with 30,000 men, Napoleon being on the flank of the advancing army — and when he might have fallen on their flank and closed