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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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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)
ed in proportion to the extent of the line of defense, and the system of cordons appears with all its dangers, without it being easy to adopt any other. We could not be better convinced of those truths, than by retracing the position of Massena in Switzerland in 1799. After the loss of the battle of Stockach by Jourdan, he held the line from Basle by Schaffhausen and Rheineck to the St. Gothard, and from thence by the Furca to Mt. Blanc. He had enemies in front of Basle, he had them at Waldshut, at Schaffhausen, at Feldkirch and at Coire; the corps of Bellegarde menaced the St. Gothard, and the army of Italy had designs upon the Simplon and the St. Bernard. How was the periphery of such a circle to be defended? How leave one of the great valleys uncovered, at the risk of losing every thing? From Rheinfeld to the Jura towards Soleure, there are but two light marches, and there was the gorge of the Mouse-trap in which the French army found itself engaged. There then was the pivo