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ennessee." (Gen. Grant's;) the "Army of the Ohio," (Gen. Buell's;) and the "Army of the Mississippi," (Gen. Pope's)--all of these being under the supreme command of Gen. Halleck. This vast machinery of war has begun its work. The ball has commenced rolling. The serpent is uncoiling himself, and while I write is moving onwards the theatre of one of the grandest military tournaments the world has ever witnessed,--an encounter which will go down to history with the Waterloo, Austerlitz, Marengo, and Solferino of the Old World. But Halleck will soon have a fire in the rear as well as front. The dry season is said to have already commenced. The Tennessee has fallen several foot, its tributaries are rapidly drying, malarious influences are at work, and disease will quickly be doing its work among his troops as effectually as Confederate balls and steel. Affairs at Fort Pillow have been varied by a small battle between Jeff. Thompson and Commodore Montgomery, with his cott
The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Navel reconnaissance up the Chickahominy. (search)
le. When the Russians defended the city of Moscow, in the great battle of Borodino, they lost, according to the account of a Russian officer published three or four years ago, and believed to be the most reliable history of that campaign that has ever appeared, 52,000 men, killed and wounded, out of 130,000. Yet though driven from the field, they were by no means conquered. Take any European battle, where the numbers were nearly the same with those of the contending hosts the other day — Marengo for instance, where the combatants were a little over fifty thousand--and it will be seen that our losses bear no comparison with those of the victoria. In the field just mentioned, the French lost 7,000 men, out of 26,000, and yet they won a victory which placed all Italy at their feet. At Waterloo, the English and Allies, although victorious, lost 23,000 men, a sixth part of their whole force. Happily for us, we have never before been visited by the curse of war, and therefore it i
ng two or three of them. In the Italian campaign of 1800, while the Austrian General Melas was engaged in the siege of Genoa, the First Consul Bonaparte led an army through Switzerland, over the great St. Bernard, down the valley of the Dora Baltea, and took possession of all Lombardy, and the greater part of Piedmont, in his rear. He then crossed the Po, cut off his retreat to Germany, intercepted his supplies, destroyed his communications, and forced him to fight the fatal battle of Marengo, in such a position that while fighting he was facing his own country instead of having it at his back, and had France at his back instead of in his front. The result was an armistice, by which the Austrian army became, to all intents, prisoners of war, so far as any operations in Italy were concerned. In the campaign of 1805, General Mack marched into Bavaria with an army of 80,000 men, and made his headquarters at Ulm. The Emperor Napoleon induced him to believe that he intended to
destroyed at Platœs that morning. The intelligence ran like wild-fire through the Grecian host, who, roused to a pitch of irresistible enthusiasm, crashed upon the enemy, put him to the rout, and inflicted upon him a slaughter only inferior to that his countrymen had endured in the morning at Platœa. We had a striking example of the operations of the Phene in this city on the occasion of the capture of Winchester. Last Sunday, 14th June, (the sixty-third anniversary of the battle of Marengo,) Gen. Early stormed the works around that town. There is no telegraphic communication thence with Richmond. Staunton, seventy miles off, presents the first telegraph. Yet almost before the smoke of the battle field had cleared away rumors of the result began to spread.--On Monday morning they pervaded the whole city, and described the actual condition of affairs with a minuteness and accuracy absolutely astounding. The number of guns and prisoners were designated, and it was stated tha
r the bayonet. The indecisive character of the battles which we have heretofore fought greatly assists the enemy in carrying out his schemes. We have been almost always victorious, yet we have never in a single instance derived any benefit from our victories, and in all of them we have lost a vast number of men. We have not the least doubt that in his three battles, in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, General Bragg lost as many men as the victorious party lost in the three battles of Marengo, Austerlitz, and Jena, each of which struck down an Empire. Yet General Bragg, although victorious in all his battles, not only gained nothing, but lost ground. It is difficult to understand of what use such victories can be to us, when the results have been such. A defeat could hardly have produced a catastrophe more unfavorable to us. The enemy is vastly more numerous than we. He knows that in every battle we fight we lose large numbers of men, although we may be victorious, and that w
litary importance of which, as a rebel centre of supplies, and on account of its military workshops and naval depot, and as commanding the navigable Alabama river down to Mobile and up to Montgomery can hardly be over estimated. The country between Quitman and Mobile is poor and thinly inhabited; but the country between the Mississippi State border and Selma is exceedingly rich, and especially in slaves and cotton Thus in three Alabama counties on the line of Gen Sherman's march — Sumpter, Marengo, and Dallas — there is an aggregate of some sixty thousand slaves against a white population of twenty-five thousand. Gen. Sherman, then, is striking into the very heart of the negro and cotton and corn region of Alabama, and the consequences, with or without any fighting must be exceedingly disastrous to the rebel cause. The objects of this expedition are to out off Mobile from Joe Johnston disperse Polk's broken and demoralized army, to secure the Alabama river, to seize and use or dest
e Rapid Ann and the James. The five great campaigns of Napoleon, after he had obtained supreme power, were those of Marengo, (1800,) Austerlitz, (1805,) Jena, (1806,) Friedland, (1807,) and Wagram, (1809.) We speak of the campaign of Marengo asMarengo as having been made after he had obtained supreme power, because, though at the time he was nominally but the First Consul of the French Republic, in reality, he was as absolute as his contemporaries, Francis and Alexander, and as he himself ever was,ate; and it is to the fortunate campaigns, of course, that the Herald likens this campaign of Grant. In the campaign of Marengo, then, Napoleon crossed the Alps by the great St, Bernard, passed down the Dora Baltea, emerged upon the plains of Piedmand he had come upon its rear while he was expected in another quarter. He than crossed the Po and fought the battle of Marengo, which was followed by the capitulation of the Austrian army and the surrender of all Austrian Italy this side of the Br
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