Victories And Defeats: An Attempt to Explain the Causes Which Have Led to Them
Victories And Defeats: An Attempt to Explain the Causes Which Have Led to Them
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x, ' Ibid, vol. X. p. 100.
REMARKS ON ASIATIC CAVALRY II5 advancing on Moscow after the battle of Borodino, where his cavalry suffered so much ; third, in having no light horse, so that the Cossacks were free to cut off all supplies ; fourth, in retreating by separate corps. ^ * If an European army advances in good order, forming magazines as it goes, it may doubtless be able to withstand the utmost attacks of the Asiatic R«narks on Asiatic cavalry ; and it was because they took these pre- cava...lry, cautions, that the armies of Alexander and the Romans in ancient, and the British and Russians in modern times have so often prevailed over innumerable swarms of Eastern horse. But when an army rushes headlong into the middle of Scythian cavalry, without having the means of providing itself with subsistence and forage, it is certain to be destroyed. Alexander the Great wisely avoided such a danger, and contenting himself with a barren victory over the Scythians on the banks of the Oxus, turned aside from their inhospitable territory.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
x, ' Ibid, vol. X. p. 100.
REMARKS ON ASIATIC CAVALRY II5 advancing on Moscow after the battle of Borodino, where his cavalry suffered so much ; third, in having no light horse, so that the Cossacks were free to cut off all supplies ; fourth, in retreating by separate corps. ^ * If an European army advances in good order, forming magazines as it goes, it may doubtless be able to withstand the utmost attacks of the Asiatic R«narks on Asiatic cavalry ; and it was because they took these pre- cava...lry, cautions, that the armies of Alexander and the Romans in ancient, and the British and Russians in modern times have so often prevailed over innumerable swarms of Eastern horse. But when an army rushes headlong into the middle of Scythian cavalry, without having the means of providing itself with subsistence and forage, it is certain to be destroyed. Alexander the Great wisely avoided such a danger, and contenting himself with a barren victory over the Scythians on the banks of the Oxus, turned aside from their inhospitable territory.
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