The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ..from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ... . er of its divisions. Thegeneral has many combinations to attend, and many dangersto guard against; his columns being on many roads, and un-connected, must also be dependent upon many persons andmany orders. Obstacles will be multiplied at every step;and errors cannot be known or corrected without much lossof time. configuration of the theatre of war may possess thesame importa
The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ..from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ... . er of its divisions. Thegeneral has many combinations to attend, and many dangersto guard against; his columns being on many roads, and un-connected, must also be dependent upon many persons andmany orders. Obstacles will be multiplied at every step;and errors cannot be known or corrected without much lossof time. configuration of the theatre of war may possess thesame importance as that of a frontier; for, in fact, everytheatre of war may be considered as a quadrilateral elucidate this idea, the scene of operations of the Frencharmy from 1757 to 1769, and the -p.^ , operations of Napoleon in 1806, ^may be cited. In Fig. 1, the sideA B being enclosed by the NorthSea, the side B D by the river We-ser, base of the army of Prince Fer-dinand ; C D representing the riverMaine, base of the French, and A Cthe Rhine, likewise in possession ofthe French ; their armies operating ^ 2io££h. Sea Maine offensively on the sides A C and C D, had the third, A B, 22 THE ARMY AND or North Sea, in their favour, and therefore B D was theonly side which they were to gain by their manceuvres, tohave possession of the four sides, and consequently of thebase of all the communications of their adversary. This is more clearly exemplified in Fig. 2. The FrenchFig. 2. army, E, proceeding from the base, ^ C D, to gain the position F G II,cuts off the allied army, J, from theside B D, its only communication^^ and base. It would thus be driven 1^^ . ^^^ into the angle L A M, which is formed near Embden by the lineof the Rhine, the Ems, and thesea; while the army, E, could al-ways communicate with C D, or the Maine. The manoeuvre of Napoleon on the Saale, in 1806, wascombined on the same principle. He moved upon Jena andNaumburg in the position F G H; and then ad
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