As a strategist his qualities came to be recognized as paramount in that body.
General van Moltke was a nephew of the great strategist of 1870, and his name possibly appealed as of happy augury for repeating the former capture of Paris.
Napoleon, a more skillful strategist than Moreau, desired him to cross at Schaffhausen in order to take Kray's whole army in reverse, to reach Ulm before him, to cut him off from Austria and hurl him back upon the Main.
One of the surest means of using the artillery to the best advantage is to place in command of it a general who is at once a good strategist and tactician.
We may be confident that a good strategist will make a good chief of staff for an army; but for the command in chief is required a man of tried qualities, of high character and known energy.
I said:--"Prince Gortschakoff will be a grand strategist opposed to very weak generals if he succeeds in saving his army and marching them scatheless from the Crimea.
It is certain that the enemy knew his weakness, and was too good a strategist to defend a position of which we held the key.
He had come to trust his intelligence,--his judgment and his extraordinary coup d'oeil implicitly, and to regard him as a strategist of consummate ability.
Moreover, it was conceded by all in high command that Smith was easily the leading strategist in that entire host.
This marked Foch as the most daring and brilliant strategist of the war.
Liege fortifications were the design of the celebratedstrategist Brialmont.
Foch was already famous as the greatest strategist in Europe.
But it now unlocks the store-house of Sherman's mind, and shows to the world more of the real character of the great strategist than any other public document he ever wrote.
There was no defect in Gates as a strategist or tactician.
Russia appeared to the strategist as a vast reservoir of food for powder which would take time to mobilize, but prove almost irresistible if it were given time.
The Strategist had a map on his knees, which overlapped his fellow passenger's on either side.
And why did theStrategist look so grave all of a sudden, as he stood staring after the train, with his cap in his hand, so that the sunlight gleamed on his silver-grey hair?
The Philosopher and the Strategist are but shadows in this book, but though I left them on the kerbstone, I took with me the memory of a comradeship which had been good to have.
The Strategist had met the engineers in many camps in England.
That was my experience on more than one day of adventure when I went wandering with those two friends of mine, whom I have alluded to as the Strategist and the Philosopher.
The Strategist was studying his map, and working out military possibilities.
Bonaparte's reputation as a strategist had already been established, but his personal courage had never been tested.
He died at the age of thirty, but as a politician and strategist he was already famous.
As an officer in the engineers he had attained the highest distinction, while as minister of war he had shown himself an organizer andstrategist of the first order.
Then Foch, the great French strategist and Allied generalissimo, struck the blow for which he had patiently bided his time!
Illustration: Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the great strategist in supreme command of the allied forces on the Western front, who wrested the initiative from the Germans and sent them reeling back in 1918.
Thiers' ambition to be considered a great strategist and tactician, and also a military engineer.
Rossel is no doubt a better strategist than I am, and I do not in the least mind his letting me know it, but if Dombrowski or Bergeret was 'Delegate for War,' Rossel would have been in prison or shot a fortnight ago.
The strategist in love, war or business simulates what he does not feel, is not frank or sincere in his statements and believes firmly that the end justifies the means.
The strategist tends to be quite cynical, and his effect on his fellow men is to increase cynicism and pessimism.
I saw the mother of four children sprawling in the mire, and the bilious taxpayer fall over her, and then I followed the youthful strategist into an open door.
The siege of Paris is in the hands of General Moltke, and the Gaulois may depend upon it that this wary strategist is not at all likely to give up the task by any number of journalists informing him that he is certain to fail.
No more consummate parliamentary strategisthas been seen in England.
Had not his reputation as a military strategist overshadowed his other gifts, the count would have gained distinction in the world of letters.
Both as a strategist and as a tactician," says Admiral Bridge, "Torrington was immeasurably ahead of his contemporaries.
That able strategist had disappeared, enveloping himself in impenetrable vidette swarms of cavalry.
In a military point of view, the great Confederate strategist was right: he was conducting the campaign on the principle Lee so admirably adopted in Virginia.
He was succeeded by General Pezuela, a strategist of no mean abilities, who had borne a brilliant part in the Bolivian campaigns.
As a strategist he lacked imagination, except in his dispatches.
The great strategistat Richmond had not yet done with Lincoln.
Of Duarte, the General Staff officers said that he was as bad a strategist as he was brave a man, which would have made him one of the worst strategists in military history.
Because unless he does, he will need a military strategist to pull him out of the hole.
Three or four days were spent in disposing of prisoners and booty at Stirling and in setting things in order there, for the most precise strategist of to-day could not be more careful about his base than Monk.
But it was enough to show the old strategist his danger.
Whatever was the overmastering cause, the wary strategist suddenly changed front, cast his scruples to the winds, and the Portuguese ambassador immediately applied to the Council for a frigate to carry him and his portentous secret to Lisbon.
Against this view he successfully marshals Napoleon himself, Wellington by the mouth of Lord Ellesmere, and the great German strategist Clausewitz.
With his clear eye for the right man he had found Moltke and placed the premier strategist of his day at the head of the General Staff.
Bismarck had umbrage with Moltke because the great strategist withheld from the great statesman the military information which the latter held he ought to share.
