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The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
ore extravagant than this. But who are these great Captains? Napoleon, who was somewhat of a judge in such matters, has told us. He says there are eighty-eight campaigns, from the close study of which (if they were properly written) the whole theory of the art of war would be gathered. They are the eight campaigns of Alexander, the seventeen of Hannibal, the thirteen of Julius CÆsar in ancient times, the three of Gustavus Adolphus, the eighteen of Turenne, the eighteen of Prince Eugene of Savoy, and the eleven of Frederick the Great in modern times. The weapons of ancient times, the organization of ancient armies, and their method of encamping, marching, and giving battle, were of course different from what they were in the days of Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene, and Frederick. But three are certain great principles inseparable from war, and which form the essence of the art, the others being modified by circumstances.--These principles, Napoleon tells us, were carefully observed by ea