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- Land we love, a monthly magazine devoted to literature, military history, and agriculture [1868 : July, v.5 : no.3]
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- July 1868
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Land we love, a monthly magazine devoted to literature, military history, and agriculture [1868 : July, v.5 : no.3]
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THE
ЕЛЮ
WE LOVE.
No. III.
JULY, 186S.
VOL. V.
COMPARATIVE GENERALSHIP.
A few months after the capture
of Gen. Lee’s army, in 1865, a
writer, in the editorial columns of
a widely circulating New York
journal, asserted that the achieve¬
ments of Gen. Grant surpassed
those of Alexander, Hannibal,
Julius Cresar, Gustavus Adol¬
phus, Marshal Turenne, Prince
Eugene of Savoy, Marlborough,
Frederick the Great, Napoleon,
and the Duke of Wellington, all
combined! The journal in ques¬
tion is so much addicted to quiz¬
zing, that we felt at a loss to de¬
termine whether this stupendous
panegyric was uttered in good
faith, or whether it was merely an
echo of the popular exultation,
which at that moment very near¬
ly approached the borders of
frenzy. Napoleon, in bis review
of Jomini’s “ Art of War,” tells
us that a great soldier cannot be
made by books of that sort — that
the “art” is best taught in the
field — that the best substitute for
the field is the careful study of
eighty-four campaigns which he
mentions, viz: the eight of Alex¬
ander, seventeen of Hannibal,
and thirteen of Cresar, in ancient
times; the three of Gustavus,
sixteen of Turenne, nineteen of
Eugene, and eleven of Frederick,
in modern times. He did not, of
course, include his own and those
of Wellington. The panegyrist
of Gen. Grant, however, includes
them in his summary. In order
that the reader may see the enor¬
mous character of this eulogy, we
propose to glance at the career of
each of these great captaius, be¬
fore sketching a brief outline of
Gen. Grant’s.
Alexander the Great, with a
force 34,500 strong, invaded the
Persian empire, the mightiest, at
that time, upon which the sun
had ever shone, extending from
the shores of the Hellespont to
the banks of the Indus, from
Memphis on the Nile, to the
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VOL. V. NO. II [.
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