“Faites la guerre offensive comme Alexandre, Annibal, César, Gustave Adolphe, Turenne, le Prince Eugène et Fredéric; lisez, relisez l’histoire de leurs quatre vingt trois campagnes; modelez vous sur eux.”--NAPOLEON. This volume consists of a series of essays on Great Commanders of Modern Times, and of two papers on the Campaign of 1815. I have to thank the Editor of _The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine_, in which these studies originally appeared, for thinking them worthy of republication; and my acknowledgments are due to the press for many favourable notices. The text has been revised and slips of the pen corrected; but I have made no substantial change in what I had at first writ…
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