The book Essays Political And Biographical was written by author Walpole, Spencer, Sir, 1839-1907 Here you can read free online of Essays Political And Biographical book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Essays Political And Biographical a good or bad book?
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I suspect all the Continental armies were more than half beaten before the battle began. I, at least, will not be frightened beforehand ' " (vol. i., p. 13). It is thus evident that, before he sailed for the campaign of Vimiera, the duke was meditating meeting the French attack in column with steady troops in line. After the war was over, during the occupation of Paris, the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia " insisted on the superiority of Buonaparte's system of an attack by columns. Th...e duke took the other side, denied that it had ever been or could be successful against steady troops on a large scale, and he instanced Waterloo. The two sovereigns, who had not quite got out of their engouement about Buonaparte, and who attributed their own successive defeats to the column system, persisted, though the duke's reasoning was most clear and con- vincing ; but at last he said he requested permission to show their Majesties his principle by the actual exhibition of the two systems by his whole army next day on the Plaine St.
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