This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ii. exploration. crimean war. For the next few years McClellan had a pleasant station and the agreeable duty of assisting in the instruction of cadets in practical military engineering, being able to demonstrate the importance of his instruction by illustrations drawn from his recent ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ii. exploration. crimean war. For the next few years McClellan had a pleasant station and the agreeable duty of assisting in the instruction of cadets in practical military engineering, being able to demonstrate the importance of his instruction by illustrations drawn from his recent experience in Mexico. He became a member of the Napoleon Club, which the officers on duty at West Point had organized for the critical study of the campaigns of that master of the art of war. Their meetings were held in a large room in the Academic Building, upon the walls of which were painted accurate maps of the theater of wars in Spain, Italy, and Germany, drawn to a sufficiently large scale to illustrate the strategical movements of Napoleon's principal campaigns. Prof. D. H. Mahan, the head of the department of civil and military engineering at the Academy, presided at these meetings and gave the members the benefit of his keen, incisive criticism and instructive analysis in their studies of the Napoleonic wars, the fruit of which was afterward made manifest in the war of the rebellion. McClellan selected the campaign of 1812 for his essay, and in accordance with his habit of mind devoted every spare moment to its study to the exclusion of everything else; and when the paper was read he had demonstrated to his comrades that the bent of his mind was strategical rather than tactical. He received many compliments on the clearness of his style, the purity of his diction, and the mastery of his subject. During this period, in addition to his professional study, he acquired a substantial knowledge of foreign languages and improved his acquaintance with the best literature. He had also much to occupy him in the dry details of plans and estimates for...
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