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Excerpt from The Spirit of Military Institutions
The judicious choice of strategic points 'and lines is the safety of armies in reverses, and the cause of the greatest results in successes.
Napoleon particularly possessed the genius of strategy; no general has ever surpassed him in this respect; none knew better, beforehand, how to find the point where it was necessary to strike.
A large army is composed of several columns; they are necessarily separated in order to subsist and to move with facility. The most dis tant parts should be able to arrive in time for the battle, either to take part in the con?ict, or to serve merely as a reserve. The object of strategy is to regulate the march for the promptest reunion upon the same point, be it at the centre or upon one of the wings. A march thus regulated is what Napoleon was in the habit of calling his chess-board.
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