“It is the exact moment that must be seized; one minute too soon or too late and the movement is utterly futile.”—Napoleon.
MILITARY EXAMPLES
“The movements of an army should be characterized by decision and rapidity.”—Hannibal.
“In order to escape from a dilemma it first of all is necessary to gain Time.”—Napoleon.
Thebes having revolted, Alexander the Great marched 400 miles in fourteen days; attacked and captured the city and razed it to the ground (335 B.C.) sparing only the house and family of Pindar, the poet; massacred all males capable of bearing arms and sold 30,000 women and children into slavery.
To gain time to occupy the Strategic center and to cut the communications with Rome of the army of the Consul Flaminius, Hannibal marched his army for three days and nights through the marshes of the Po.