. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. , introduces the last-men-tioned series with a twenty-eight-page dedication to General dePeyster, in the course of which he confesses : My works werewritten by me for the use of youths—whose piofession has yetto be learned. You address the higher rank of the army, andappear to seek to philosophize the art of war by showing it tobe capable, under its most scientific phases, of being less lavishof blood. To both our grievances the remedy is the same: practical strategy. I readily accept from you this comprises all that can be said
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. , introduces the last-men-tioned series with a twenty-eight-page dedication to General dePeyster, in the course of which he confesses : My works werewritten by me for the use of youths—whose piofession has yetto be learned. You address the higher rank of the army, andappear to seek to philosophize the art of war by showing it tobe capable, under its most scientific phases, of being less lavishof blood. To both our grievances the remedy is the same: practical strategy. I readily accept from you this comprises all that can be said or written upon skill in war. General de Peyster is still, in his old age, as hard at work asever, surrounded by the evidence of his own labors and by me-mentos of his own past and of past generations for nearly fourcenturies. He will leave those who come after him to take hisstory as an example of what an industrious and willing man canaccomphsh. His hfe in detail has been told by able and im-partial pens, and to them the curious are
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