A Military Dictionary, or Explanation of the Several Systems of Discipline of Different Kinds of Troops, Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry: The ... Science of Tactics; Comprising the Pocket Gun - Softcover
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The military triumphs of modern France have been ascribed to a multitude of causes really, perhaps, the causes of her military successes may be reduced to two. First, the necessity which arose out oil what has been preposterously called the balance of power in Europe, which under the pretence of maintaining an equality of nations, has been the real mask for reiterated wars, conquests, plunder, and desolation; Spain, Austria, and France, have been at different pe rioda held up as as iring to universal dominion; under the color of resisting the aggrandizement 0 either, they have been for two centuries constantly engaged in efforts to plunder each other. France, from her position, was from the pas sions of the forced to be prepared for the defensive and in several succes sive wars ha made conquests on her extremities, which rendered it daily more necessary to maintain a military establishment; and at length, after suffering great disasters, and thereby producing a succession of great generals, the pas sions and character of the people became military.
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