The French Army Before Napoleon Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas Term (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The French Army Before Napoleon Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas Term The story which I shall attempt to tell you this term has no direct relation to the conflict in which the chief nations of Europe are now fighting one another to vindicate their opposite ideals of right, of human life, and of society. It is but a contribution to the attempt to understand the process of war. I have tried to focus into a few brief chapters the light which the inquiries of others have thrown upon the origin of modern generalship and modern armies. It is a fragment of history which at first sight may seem as remote from our present lives as the story of Thermopylae, of Leuctra, or of Cannae. It might perhaps have the attraction of novelty, for the field which it covers has hardly been explored by English writers. The lectures were written substantially in their present form in the spring of this year, when the ordeal into which we are now plunged was little more than the foreboding of a few observers who were but too conscious of their likeness to Cassandra. But if the historians work is sincere it may have the quality of truth, which illuminates not only the past but the present and the future. 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.