[4]. This was written in 1816, before those events took place in India, by which the subjection of the whole peninsula seems to have been accomplished.
[5].
... venient annis
Sæcula seris, quibus Oceanus
Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens
Pateat tellus, Tiphysque novos
Detegat orbes, nec sit terris ultima Thule.
End of the Chorus of the 2d Act of
Seneca’s Medea.
[6]. On this very subject, Napoleon thus expressed himself: “The presence of the General is indispensable; he is the head, he is the whole of an army. It was not the Roman army that subdued Gaul, but Cæsar; it was not the Carthaginian army that made the Republic tremble at the gates of Rome, but Hannibal; it was not the Macedonian army that was on the Indus, but Alexander; it was not the French army that carried the war to the Weser and the Inn, but Turenne; it was not the Prussian army that for seven years defended Prussia against the greatest powers of Europe, but Frederick the Great.”[Great.”] (Memoires de Napoleon, tom. 2. p. 90.)