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The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
oring to show that if the Russian campaign of 1812 was a rash under taking, then all the great military operations, of which we read in the biographies of the most renowned Generals were so. We have already noticed the campaigns of Alexander and Hannibal. Let us now notice those of Julius Caesar. Caesar commenced his military career at a more advanced period of life than either of the a forenamed Generals. Alexander was but twenty-two when he invaded Asia; Hannibal but twenty-seven where. Hannibal but twenty-seven where. he invaded Italy. But Caesar, somehow or other, had a bad name among those who bestowed honors at Rome, Sylla had said of him, when a boy, or was reported to have said of him, which was just as bad, " There is many a Marciss in that boy " Give a dog a bad name, and it is as well to hang him, Caesar seems to have been suspected, at a very early period of his life, of a design to overthrow the liberties-- such as they were — of his country ; and, consequently, every effort was made by the aristo