NOTE.
It is in order to facilitate this object that I have formed the present collection. It is after reading and meditating upon the history of modern war that I have endeavored to illustrate, by examples, how the maxims of a great captain may be most successfully applied to this study. May the end I have had in view be accomplished!
Transcriber’s Notes
Cover created by Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed, except as noted below.
Unusual and archaic spellings were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page [32]: “spacious and extensive” was printed as “entensive” but changed here.
Page [60]: “1746” is a misprint; the correct date must be in the 1600's, perhaps “1646”.
Page [63]: “1798” may be a misprint for “1796”.
Page [65]: “1745” is a misprint; the correct year is “1645”.
Page [75]: “wo to the vanquished” was printed that way.
Page [100]: “Vauban” was printed as “Vanban” but changed here.