. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ng or separated troo2:)s of theinvaders, a force of some forty thousand Boers found it possibleto keep two hundred thousand well-equipped British troops atbay for nearly two years. The pjuglishman now understandsthat when an army originally comprising a himdred tliousandmen has to come into action at a point some hundred of milesdistant from its base, it is not a hundred thousand muskets thatare available, but seventy thousand or sixty thousand. Theother thousatids have l^een used up on the marcli or have beenleft to guard the line
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ng or separated troo2:)s of theinvaders, a force of some forty thousand Boers found it possibleto keep two hundred thousand well-equipped British troops atbay for nearly two years. The pjuglishman now understandsthat when an army originally comprising a himdred tliousandmen has to come into action at a point some hundred of milesdistant from its base, it is not a hundred thousand muskets thatare available, but seventy thousand or sixty thousand. Theother thousatids have l^een used up on the marcli or have beenleft to guard the lines of communication. ^Vithout constantlyrenewed supplies an army is merelj^ a helpless mass of men. It is probable, in fact, that the history of modern warfaregives no example of so complex, extensive, and difficult a mili-tary undertaking as that which was finally brought to a suc-cessful close by the armies of the North, armies which werecontejiding against some of the best fighting material and theablest military leadership that the world lias known. [84 1.
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