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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.) 8 0 Browse Search
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army. 8 0 Browse Search
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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 17: military character. (search)
ight deal one blow of his sword in battle. Marvelous metamorphoses have taken place even since 1815. Imagine the Federal and Confederate armies in a campaign in Belgium in 1861-1865, and that the Federal commander had accepted battle on the field of Waterloo and taken up the line of defense adopted by Wellington. He would not have compressed sixtyseven thousand six hundred and sixty-one Number of English troops engaged at Waterloo. men in battle lines within a space of two miles on the Wavre road, on a slope void of intrenchments. The chateau of Hougoumont and its inclosures might have been strongly occupied to add increased strength to the right of the line of battle; but it is improbable that La Haye Sainte, three hundred yards in front of the center on the Charleroi turnpike, and the little villages of Papelotte, La Haie, and Smohain, from a quarter to a half mile in front of the left, would have been occupied except by skirmishers. The flanks of a Federal army equal in nu
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)
having started from Sombref, they wished to move concentrically upon that city, the one by Quatre-Bras, and the other by Wavre; Blucher and Wellington, taking an interior strategic line, united before them, and the terrible disaster of Waterloo attllies, had committed such a fault, it would have been annihilated. Beaten at Ligny, and a refugee at Gembloux, then at Wavre, Blucher had but three strategical lines to choose, that which led direct to Maestricht, that which went farther to the neon had neglected for the first time, perhaps, in his life. It will be admitted that the line followed, from Gembloux by Wavre, upon Mont Saint-Jean, was neither the line of operations of the Prussian army, nor a line of battle, but rather a strateno was not the line of operations of the French army, but a strategic line more audacious still than that of Blucher upon Wavre. However, it was a question only of three or four days operation, at the end of which Napoleon would either be conqueror
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army., Example of a battle of the offensive defense: battle of Austerlitz, December 2, 1805. (search)
an attack, the army being very much exhausted; it was, therefore, postponed to the next day, the 18th. In the mean while, Blucher retreated in the direction of Wavre, where he arrived on the 17th; the corps of Bulow, amounting to 30,000 men, was already there. This corps had taken no part in the battle of Ligny; and, besides, had pursued the Prussian army on the 17th, but only as far as Gembloux, where a Prussian rear guard induced him to believe that the whole army was still there. Wavre is about five or six miles from Mont St. Jean. Blucher and Wellington concerted the measures to be taken for the 18th: Wellington was to keep his position to the on the 16th, were consolidated; the number of battalions present was, therefore, only 97. The Prussian army, under the command of Marshal Bliicher, assembled at Wavre on consisting of-- Four Army Corps:--  Battal's.Squad's.Batt's.Men. 1st. Gen. Ziethen 34 32 12 30,381 2d. Gen Pirsch 36 36 10 31,758 3d. Gen. Thielm
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army., Mixed operations. (search)
at by Massena 25th September 1799. Retreat and pursuit. the moment we leave the battle-field to retreat, our operation becomes one of Strategy as well as of Tactics. The direction in which we retreat is of the utmost importance. In the example of the battle of Waterloo this can easily he seen. If Blucher, after the battle of Ligny, had retreated to Namur, as many a general would have done, Wellington's army would have been lost, and a double defeat the consequence; his retreat to Wavre, and arrival at Belle Alliance, changed the defeat to the most decided victory. The direction of our retreat will depend on many circumstances. If we are co-operating with another army, we should retreat in this direction, to make a junction with it and obtain a central position between the enemy's armies. We may also retreat directly into the heart of our country; or we may retreat parallel to the frontiers. In the first example we have already spoken of this last. The reasons fo