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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.), Chapter 3: strategy. (search)
y is forced to evacuate the Grisons and eastern Switzerland. The Allies commit in their turn thearly afterwards, they form a double line in Switzerland and the Lower Rhine. Their army in SwitzerSwitzerland is overthrown at Zurich, whilst that of the Lower Rhine is amusing itself at Manheim. In Itty thousand men defile by the two flanks of Switzerland, debouch on the one side upon the Danube, a into vast and rich plains. If we except Switzerland, the Tyrol, the Noric provinces, (I comprehon the results of the imprudent invasion of Switzerland by the French Directory, and upon the fatalcenturies, had guaranteed the neutrality of Switzerland. Every one will be convinced of this truth been surrounded in one of those valleys of Switzerland and of the Tyrol from whence one could onlyer. Of all entirely mountainous countries, Switzerland is incontestably that of which the tacticalof Novi and especially in the expedition to Switzerland, that of the corps of Hermann at Bergen in [6 more...]
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.), chapter 7 (search)
er, and by an exclusive system, is a thing impossible. In the first place, the nature of countries differ essentially. There are those where we can manoeuvre two hundred thousand men deployed, as in Champagne; there are others, like Italy, Switzerland, the valley of the Rhine, the half of Hungary, where we could scarcely deploy a division of ten battalions. The degree of instruction of the troops in all kinds of manoeuvres, their armament and their national character, could also have an in great influence upon the issue of battles. These are batteries less murderous, but not less efficacious. It must not be forgotten either that all fields of battle and all countries do not offer the same advantages to artillery; in Italy, in Switzerland, in Vendee, in many parts of Germany, in every very broken country, in a word, we do not find fields of battle like Wagram and Leipsic. As for the rest, there are useful lessons in his pamphlet, to which no other reproach could be made than
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.), Sketch of the principal maritime expeditions. (search)
as seen, to the astonishment of the world, ahandful of seven or eight thousand English, descend in the midst of a State of ten millions of souls, to penetrate sufficiently far to seize the capitol, and to destroy thereat all the public establishments — results for which one seeks in vain another example in history. One would be tempted to reproach for it the republican and anti-military spirit of the inhabitants of those provinces, if we had not seen the militia of Greece, of Rome and of Switzerland, defend their firesides better against aggressions much more powerful; and if in that same year an English expedition, more numerous than the other, had not been totally defeated by the militia of Louisiana, under the orders of General Jackson. The perhaps rather fabulous armaments of Xerxes and of the Crusades excepted, nothing of all that has been done, particularly since war fleets carried a formidable artillery, can sustain the least comparison with the colossal project and the pro