Modern Strategy: An Outline of the Principles which Guide the Conduct of Campaigns, to which is Added a Chapter on Modern TacticsW. Blackwood and Sons, 1908 - 263페이지 |
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able acting advance advantage adversary Allies Archduke army corps artillery Austrians Base of Operations battle battle of Königgrätz Blucher Boer Bohemia Bourbaki campaign cavalry command commenced compelled concentration considerable Danube Davout debouching defeat defensive difficult direction division Elbe Emperor enemy enemy's fall back field field magazine fighting fire flank attack fleet fortresses France French army front frontier gained German guns Hence Hohenlohe hostile Immediate Base infantry interior lines invading Japanese Jena Jena-Auerstadt Lannes large numbers latter line of communications line of operations line of retreat Manchuria manœuvre ment Metz miles military modern Moltke move movement munications Napoleon nation necessary obtained offensive opponent organisation Ormea penetrate Port Arthur portion position possible Prussians railways rapidity Remilly rendered Rhine river road Savona Second Army side Silesia Soult Strategical Deployment success sufficient superior numbers tactical tion troops victory Wellington
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9 페이지 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
142 페이지 - I beg to inform your Lordship that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me; quite the reverse; every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there that we hope to realize the hopes and expectations of our country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed.
135 페이지 - Yonder is a great commander, but he is a cautious one and will delay his attack to ascertain the cause of these...
v 페이지 - History maketh a young man to be old without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.
138 페이지 - For a battle, there is not perhaps in Europe an army equal to the British ; that is to say, none whose tuition, discipline, and whole military tendency is so purely and exclusively calculated for giving battle. The British soldier is vigorous, well fed, by nature brave and intrepid, trained to the most vigorous discipline, and admirably well armed.
v 페이지 - Yea, it not onely maketh things past present, but inableth one to make a rationall conjecture of things to come. For this world affordeth no new accidents, but in the same sense wherein we call it a new Moon, which is the old one in another shape, and yet no other than what had been formerly. Old actions return again, furbished over with some new and different circumstances.
135 페이지 - ... that stern and appalling shout which the British soldier is wont to give upon the edge of battle, and which no enemy ever heard unmoved.
142 페이지 - ... enemy if he tries to enter. The second method comprises all those means and weapons which do not wait for attack, but go to meet the enemy's fleet, whether it be but for a few miles, or whether to his own shores. Such a defence may seem to be really offensive war, but it is not; it becomes offensive only when its object of attack is changed from the enemy's fleet to the enemy's country.