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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.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
nd to Landau on the other. It is not less astonishing that, after having made, at the commencement of the campaign, the greatest efforts upon the right of the general échiquier, they should direct them afterwards upon the left; thus, whilst the Allies acted in Flanders, the imposing forces which were upon the Rhine did not second them, and when those forces operated offensively in their turn, the Allies remained inactive upon the Sambre. Do not these false combinations resemble those of Soubise and of Broglie in 1761, as well as all the lines of the Seven Years War? In 1794, the scene is wholly changed. The French pass from a painful defensive to a brilliant offensive. The combinations of that campaign were, doubtless, well established; but they have been exaggerated in presenting them as a new system of war. To be assured of the justice of my assertion, let us cast a glance over the respective positions of the armies in this campaign, and in that of 1757; we see that they we
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 4 (search)
his imagination marvellously. In thought, these productions are worthless; for taste, beauty of sentiment, and power of description, remarkable. His advocacy of the poets' cause is about as effective and well-planned as Don Quixote's tourney with the wind-mill. How would you provide for the poet bon homme De Vigny?—from a joint-stock company Poet's Fund, or how? His translation of Othello, which I glanced at, is good for a Frenchman. Among his poems, La Fregate, La Serieuse, Madame de Soubise, and Dolorida, please me especially. The last has an elegiac sweetness and finish, which are rare. It also makes a perfect gem of a cabinet picture. Some have a fine strain of natural melody, and give you at once the key-note of the situation, as this:— J'aime le son du cor le soir, au fond des bois, Soit qu'il chante, &c. And Qu'il est doux, qu'il est doux d'ecouter les histoires Des histoires du temps passe Quand les branches des arbres sont noires, Quand la neige est essa
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
was moving against him. Four huge armies, each stronger than his own, were advancing to crush him — he could not collect 30,000 men round his banners. At this time he carried a sure poison always with him, determined not to fall alive into the hands of his enemies. Then the powers of his mighty mind and astonishing vigor shone forth with full lustre. The people stood nobly by their heroic sovereign. Collecting 25,000 men out of his shattered battalions, he advanced against the Prince of Soubise, who, with an army of 60,000, was advancing through Thuringia, and totally defeated him on the memorable field of Rosbach, with the loss of 18,000 men. Without rest, with his indefatigable followers, he was called to oppose Daun and Lorrain in Silesia. Its, capital had fallen — a large body of Prussians been defeated at Bresian. That rich and important province seemed on the point of falling into the hands of Austria, when, by a bold, astonishing stroke, Frederick reinstated his affairs,