The battle of Dernancourt will live long in the annals of military history as an example of dogged and successful defence.
I doubt whether there is any parallel for such a performance in the whole range of military history.
This book, by a well-known authority on military history, will be an important contribution to the literature of the subject.
To rely on it for such purposes, as Professor Freeman and others do, seems to me as unreasonable as to deduce a military history of the battle of Agincourt from Shakespeare's Henry V.
Unfortunately, both for the Institute and his popularity, it was not his business to lecture on military history.
It is not to be asserted, however, that the study of military history is an infallible means of becoming a great or even a good general.
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Indeed, an eye for a defensive position marks Edward's plan most strongly, and is, quite apart from the successful result of his action, his best title to repute in military history.
But for a study of military history in this light, knowledge of the fundamental conceptions of modern international and military movements is certainly necessary.
Several of these questions are also discussed in Rocquancourt, Carion-Nisas, De Vernon, and other writers on military history.
Military history teaches us that lines of hostile operations, and the fields upon which the principal battles between any two countries have been fought, are nearly the same, no matter how remote the periods of comparison.
In discussing military questions he made free use of his theoretic knowledge, often quoted authorities and cited maxims of war, and compared the problem before him to analogous cases in military history.
I know of no intellectual stimulus so valuable to the soldier as the reading of military historynarrated by an acknowledged master in the art of war.
Naturally the critic, in treating of the means, must often appeal to military history, as experience is of more value in the Art of War than all philosophical truth.
It is an analytical investigation of the subject that leads to an exact knowledge; and if brought to bear on the results of experience, which in our case would be military history, to a thorough familiarity with it.
The preparation of each volume is entrusted to one of the service historical sections, in this case the Army's Center of Military History.
Army Center of Military History in 1968 he served for ten years in the Historical Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The energy and determination of General Thomas and of all who could take any active part in that pursuit were probably never surpassed in military history, but the difficulties to be overcome were often insurmountable.
In military history Sherman's great march must rank only as an auxiliary to the far more important operations of Grant and Thomas.
I enjoyed very much being a simple passenger on that comfortable journey, one of the most remarkable in military history, and exceedingly creditable to the officers of the War Department who directed and conducted it.
It is an analytical investigation of the subject which leads to exact knowledge: and if brought to bear on the results of experience, which in our case would be military history, to a thorough familiarity with it.
Again, that element fatal to all accurate study of military history, the imputation of civilian virtues and motives, enters the mind of the reader with fatal facility when he studies the revolutionary wars.
The reader, if he be unaccustomed to military history, does well to note that in every action and in every campaign there is some one factor of position or of arms or of time which explains the result.
At what expense in morals, and therefore in ultimate strength and happiness, such experiments are played, is no matter for discussion in a military history.
With the various national objects which Holland, England, the Empire and certain of the German princes, as also Savoy and Portugal, may have had in view when they joined issue with the French monarch, military history is not concerned.
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