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The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
ion of Napoleon, ever conceived by the mind of man. He set out from Spain with 100,000 men. He sent 40,000 back, and arrived at the foot of the Alps with 59,000. Of these he lost 33,000 in the passage over the mountains, so that he entered Cis-Alpine Gaul with but 26,000. Think of that, when we are told about the losses Napoleon sustained before he entered Moscow. Hannibal spent five months in this march, which was a march of 1200 miles, leaving no garrisons in his rear, and keeping up no ct up only when he was recalled to defend the capital of his country. His expedition was infinitely more hazardous than the expedition to Russia. Had he been beaten at the Trebia, with his back to the Alps, twelve hundred miles from Spain, or had he been beaten at Thrasymene, in the midst of the Roman Colonies, or at Cannæ, three hundred miles from, Cis-Alpine Gaul, with all the country ready to rise on his rear, what would not such military critics as condemn Napoleon have said of Hannibal?