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aw and order, he would have been free to place himself at the head of his troops, and the briliant military genius displayed at Buena Vista, at the head of an invading army of natural soldiers, might have won greater victories on wider fields. Hamley, a recent writer on the operations of war, says: Confronting all Europe, and destitute of all the material of war except men, France poured forth armies half clad, half fed, half armed, but filled with intelligence, valor and zeal. Old traditionmilitary science. His favorite maxim was, war means fighting, and fighting means killing. Without the slightest knowledge of them, he seemed by instinct to adopt the tactics of the great masters of the military art, if there be any such art. Hamley says nothing is more common than to find in writings on military matters reference to the rules of war, and assertions such as some general owed his success to knowing when to dispense with the rules of war. It would be difficult to say what the