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Excerpt from Lord Cromer: A BiographyNapoleon checkmated the unhappy Mack, and destroyed the Austrian Army, as he put it, par a'e simples mart/res, could not have been more lucidly or succinctly set forth, and it was a curious and, after a sinister sort of fashion, a felicitous coinci dence, that the student should have chosen for his theme the greatest capitulation known to military history until that which the world was to witness within six months after the publication of his studies. Strange, indeed, was the irony of fate which drew from a great French strategist the following comment on Mack's surrender: A general-in-chief should never consent to become the instrument of the destruction of his army. When placed between dishonour and glory, the safety of the State, and the loss of his army, he should be capable of taking a part worthy of himself. Mack, after being shut up within Ulm, might at least have attempted a sortie to follow jellachich. It is always shameful to capitulate without an effort to escape. What would Jomini have said if he had been told that sixty-five years later Mack's shameful example was to be followed almost to the letter by the nephew of his conqueror?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.