A Full Answer to the Conduct of the Allies; To Which Is Added Some Observations on the Remarks on the Barrier Treaty - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1712 Excerpt: .... f 9 ) Which might have been done at a proper Seasons and with little hazard, as we have often seen thro the course of the War. Besides the Generals of the Enemy might have concerted their Measures accordingly, because they might have receiv'd Accounts to the very Day these Troops wou'd have reach'd them, and what Number, almost to a Man, they consisted of: Whereas, in out Case, the Generals cou'd have made no Advantage $ they cou'd resolve on nothing, but to have lain under a tedious Expectation,waiting for Suceours,of which they cou'd have no Accounts till they faw them j and even then cou'd have expected no immediate Service, and very probably the Season for the Campagne had been almost wasted. Their Transportation being not only hazardous and uncertain, attended with many unlucky Events, but likewise an excessive Charge, and always double to the Service it procures, because Provision is made for such a particular Number of Troops, when, as I have faid, seldom above half their Number arrive compleat. Whereas the March of the Enemies Troops stands them in little or nothing and,when they arrive, they are what they set out, and agree in Constitution with the Climate. Nor is is this all that might be faid: I wou'd ask the CflttBUslXC, if we stiou'd provide for an offensive War in Spain, how they must subsist? When the Country is hardly able to subsist it's own Inhabitants. Those Parts especially where our Armies Quarter. Of what then are we to form Magazines; if the growth of the Country affords barely enough for present necessity? And whence are they to be fetch'd? Why either from Italy, England, or the Coast of Afttck; but then, as I have observed, the Transporting them thicher is very hazardous and uncertain. And if even in Flanders which is the sinest Co...
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