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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 3: strategy. (search)
hemia, but rather from the Tyrol and the victorious army of Melas in Italy; hence the decisive point for attacking him was noobjective point of Bonaparte, was to fall upon the right of Melas by the St. Bernard, in order to seize his communications; ianoeuvre, since their importance depended upon the march of Melas on Nice. It may be laid down as a general principle, thablish himself in the interval which separates them from it. Melas could have had for a year munitions in Alexandria, though ht this might be subject to contestation; I do not think so: Melas deprived of recruits, shut up between the Bormida, the Tana been cut off from his line of retreat more completely than Melas was from his, whilst that having at need the two secondary rin, Genoa and the Coldi Tendi were occupied by the army of Melas? I shall ask finally what geometrical figure did the army leon by the St. Bernard, to fall upon the communications of Melas; those which he made in 1805 by Donauwert, to cut off Mack,
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 5: of different mixed operations, which participate at the same time of strategy and.of tactics. (search)
by Napoleon offered another example of the strategic importance which is attached to the choice of the point of passage; the army of reserve, after the combat of the ,Chiusella, could march by the left of the Po to Turin, or pass the river at Crescentino and march direct to Genoa; Napoleon preferred to pass the Ticino, to enter Milan, to unite there with Moncey, who came with twenty thousand men by the St. Gothard, then to pass the Po at Placentia, persuaded that he would more surely precede Melas upon that point, than if he changed direction too soon upon his line of retreat. The passage of the Danube at Donanwerth and Ingolstadt, in 1805, was an operation nearly of the same kind; the direction chosen became the first cause of the destruction of the army of Mack. The suitable point in strategy is easily determined, after what we have said in Article 19, and it is not.useless to recollect that in a passage of a river, as in every other operation, there are permanent or geographica