The Military Resources of Prussia and France: And Recent Changes in the Art of WarLongmans, Green, 1870 - 258 páginas |
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... less disregard of all strategical rule ; the incompetent In the monument erected on the field in 1859 , the centenary of this great battle , the Germans have omitted all notice of the contingent of six battalions of British infantry ...
... less disregard of all strategical rule ; the incompetent In the monument erected on the field in 1859 , the centenary of this great battle , the Germans have omitted all notice of the contingent of six battalions of British infantry ...
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... less fortunate . Envious of the increased ra- pidity shown by their foe , they introduced a system of movement by detached columns - not masses like those of the French , but mere fractions of their old battle order , marching at open ...
... less fortunate . Envious of the increased ra- pidity shown by their foe , they introduced a system of movement by detached columns - not masses like those of the French , but mere fractions of their old battle order , marching at open ...
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... less than that which Coburg had dispersed over thirteen ! Then came a new era in warfare . The world was to be made acquainted with such a change in Strategy , the art which rules the greater combina- tions of war , as should for a time ...
... less than that which Coburg had dispersed over thirteen ! Then came a new era in warfare . The world was to be made acquainted with such a change in Strategy , the art which rules the greater combina- tions of war , as should for a time ...
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... less to disaster - witness the vacillation of Giulay at the opening of the war in 1859. Nay , he who is successful to the full on a moderate terrain , as Grant at Vicksburg , may fail in a combined operation on a larger , as did the ...
... less to disaster - witness the vacillation of Giulay at the opening of the war in 1859. Nay , he who is successful to the full on a moderate terrain , as Grant at Vicksburg , may fail in a combined operation on a larger , as did the ...
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... less will it be worth the while of generals to prolong their operations for the purpose of subsistence , and of governments to hold out for unreasonable terms in the hope of wearying out the foe . Schleswig might have been as many ...
... less will it be worth the while of generals to prolong their operations for the purpose of subsistence , and of governments to hold out for unreasonable terms in the hope of wearying out the foe . Schleswig might have been as many ...
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