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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], The course of England and France. (search)
Napoleon, who made more use of artillery than any other General had ever done before him, and who was accused by his detractors of undue partiality to that limb of the service, tells us that the art of war cannot be learned by studying systems of war, (he was commenting on Jomini's book at the time, and a scathing commentary it is;) that the best school is the field — and that the next best is the campaigns of certain great Generals whom he enumerates, viz; Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar, in ancient times; in modern times Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Turenne, Prince Eugene of Savoy, and the Duke of Marlborough, and Frederick the Great. He might have added himself and the Duke of Wellington. It is evident that he thought something more than a mare knowledge of the manner in which heavy artillery was to be managed was requisite to the constitution of a consummate General. He tells us, in another place, that he is the greatest commander who, "with the smallest number of