| Conrad Malte-Brun - 1827 - 564 pages
...is, in reality, only a perfect and detailed topography ; the •warrior should find in it every road in which he can advance, either with artillery, or...part to the excellence of those supplied by the Depot de la Giierre, that the French armies owe their successes. A learned geometer, deeply skilled in the... | |
| Conrad Malte-Brun - 1829 - 552 pages
...reality, only a perfect and detailed topography ; the •warrior should find in it every road in which ho can advance, either with artillery, or only with his...part to the excellence of those supplied by the Depot de /л Guerre, that the French armies owe their successes. A learned geometer, deeply skilled in the... | |
| 1835 - 430 pages
...map is in reality, only a perfect and detailed topography ; the warrior should find it in every road eservation ! Nearly seventeen centuries had rolled...vivid with undimmed hues; its walls fresh as if p map; should exhibit all the localities which can influence his operations; the number of good military... | |
| 1835 - 430 pages
...the warrior should find it in every road in which ho can advance, either with artillery, or only wilh his musket ; every ford in a river, every defile by...these maps should exhibit all the localities which can infiu ence his operations; the number of good military maps is therefore very limited. It is in great... | |
| 1849 - 606 pages
...which the commander may find every road by which he can advance either with artillery, or only with the musket, every ford in a river, every defile by which he can turn the position of an enemy, — indeed all the localities which can influence his operations. It was, in a great measure, to the... | |
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