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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Defensive campaigns. (search)
bal — by a series of skillful movements, marching, counter-marching, choosing unassailable positions, and never allowing himself to be drawn into a general engagement, yet no man was more prompt in seizing every opportunity to attack, when it could be done to advantage. The manner in which he entrapped Hannibal among the mountains, and the strategem of the burning faggots tied to the cows' horns, by means of which the latter extricated himself, are well known. Besides, when his colleague, Minucius, had been surrounded, he moved instantly to his relief. We learn, also, that he captured Tarentum and performed various other exploits, none of which indicate a system purely and entirely defensive. But while he was pursuing his quasi defensive system in Italy, the Romans were pursuing a prodigiously active system of offence abroad. Marcellus took Syracuse, and Scipio invaded and conquered Spain, and finally carried the war into Hannibal's own country. Fabius opposed this last enterpris