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The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
r war. Frederic acknowledged that he had been taught by misfortune, and Wellington was, doubtless, instructed by the risk which he ran at Talavera. The first Italian campaign of Bonaparte was certainly the most extraordinary first campaign of which we have any account, but a great military critic, Colonel Napier, expressed the opinion that he would not have been able in 1796 (the date of the first Italian campaign) to have executed the manœuvres which he performed just before the battle of Eckmuhl, in 1809. These manœuvres, he himself said, were superior to any he ever executed; and Napier says of them, that "never since troops first trod the earth" was anything seen which could be compared with them. We cannot but think that an accurate description of these manœuvres, accompanied with maps and plans, would go far to, supply the place of all the "systems of war" that ever were written in instructing the military student. The great objection which we have to the system of putti