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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.) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], From our army. (search)
ee has now made is bold, but it is sagacious, and justified by the highest military authorities. There are precedents enough in its favor, and perhaps we shall be excused for citing 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