A Course of Instruction in the Elements of the Art And Science of War. for the Use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy
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General Dufour says, " If the enemy can be kept in a state of uncertainty, up to the last moment, by false attacks, and by a skillful direction given to the columns of attack ; if these columns are promptly deployed and only ad the moment when the action is about to begin, the enemy will have no time for counter-manoeuvres or for sending suf- ficient supports to the wing attacked, and will proliably be defeated. Art may thus supply the want of numbers ; and a small army, well commanded, may def...eat a large one, whose commander has not known how, or has not been able, to mass his forces at the decisive point. " This art of handling troops is in our day much more im- portant than with the ancients, because our lines are much more extended. The troops drawn from parts not attacked, to support those that are, cannot sometimes come up soon enough, to check the confusion ; and the battalions are over- thrown one after another by the attacking wing of the army." 200. The oblique order of battle resulting from either the movement indicated in Fig.
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