The Principles of War, Exhibited in the Practice of the Camp PDF Download

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ISBN: 9781330896297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Excerpt from The Principles of War, Exhibited in the Practice of the Camp: And as Developed in a Series of General Orders of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. &C. &C. &C., In the Late Campaigns on the Peninsula, With Parallel Orders of George the Second, the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Marlborough, Earl of Albemarl My Lord, To one, who, to the higher qualities of the Statesman, joins the best attributes of the General, in the grandeur of his Military Plans, and the singular facility and felicity of their execution, any attempt to elucidate the principles of an Art, which has so immediate a Claim to his notice, cannot be uninteresting or unimportant. In this view alone, the Editor of the present Volume, compiled, for the most part, from a series of General Orders, issued to the British and Allied Armies in the progress of the late Peninsular War, skilfully and most triumphantly conducted by the Duke of Wellington, might be excused in soliciting for it, your Lordships About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.