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These were marked by running comment, rather than by a studied criticism such as that of Jomini or Napier.
The sledge-hammer must strike until Lee's keen rapier was shattered. Hammer and rapier were matched against each other the combat was a l'outrance the hammer must beat down the rapier, or fall from the grasp of him who wielded it. Such was the programme of General Grant. It was not war exactly, in the old acceptation of the term. It was not taught by Jomini, or practised by Napoleon.
This same day General Jomini, Swiss by birth, but until recently in the service of France, chief of staff to Marshal Ney, and loaded with favors by the Emperor, had deserted his post, and reported at the headquarters of the Emperor Alexander, who had welcomed him with demonstrations of most intense satisfaction.
Napoleon's second visit to Dresden Battle of Bantzen The Congress at Prague Napoleon ill advised Battle of Vittoria General Moreau Rupture of the conferences at Prague Defection of Jomini Battles of Dresden and Leipsic Account of the death of Duroc An interrupted conversation resumed a year after Particulars respecting Poniatowski His extraordinary courage and death His monument at Leipsic and tomb in the cathedral of Warsaw.
Jomini did not go even so far as this. He certainly would have ruled out "an innate propensity to extreme hazards," for in his judgment it was this innate propensity which led Napoleon to abuse the higher form to his own undoing.
The anecdotes and expressions which he records we fairly believe to be genuine, and not to be the coinage of a rhetorician, like those in Curtius. In fact, in reading Arrian, we read General Aristobulus and General Ptolemy on the campaigns of the Macedonians, and it is like reading General Jomini or General Foy on the campaigns of the French.
If I am a Gascon, he is a greater one. I might have felt piqued at receiving something like orders from Davoust, but I did my duty." Jomini says that Davoust proposed to Bernadotte to march with him, and even offered him the command of the two corps. Bernadotte had frequently given cause of complaint to Napoleon in the two campaigns of 1806 and 1806.
Being sound theory, it of course had an immediate practical value, for obviously it was a distinction from which the actual work of framing a war plan must take its departure. A curious corroboration of the soundness of these views is that Jomini reached an almost identical standpoint independently and by an entirely different road.
Already there were Jourdan, Marmont, Murat, Bernadotte, and Jomini though nobody minded much about Jomini, for his pen was always sharper than his sword. We had been ready to fight Europe, but it looked now as though we were to fight Europe and half of France as well.
Jomini. Baron. *Jourdan. Comte. Junot. Duc d'Abrantès. *Kellermann. Duc de Valmy. *Lannes. Duc de Montebello. Larrey. Baron. Latour-Maubourg. Baron. Lauriston. Comte. Lavalette. Comte. Minister of Posts. *Lefebvre. Duc de Danzig. *Macdonald. Duc de Taranto. Maret. Duc de Ragusa. *Masséna. Miot. Comte de Melito. Méneval. Baron. Mollien. Comte. Minister of the Treasury. *Moncey. Duc de Conegliano.
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