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. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ... introductory advertisement. The work, which is now first presented in English, has been long since a subject of disquisition among the learned, and known to the military reader under the more restricted title of Stratagems of War, and Ruses de Guerre; either of them but little competent, as a slight ...
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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. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ... introductory advertisement. The work, which is now first presented in English, has been long since a subject of disquisition among the learned, and known to the military reader under the more restricted title of Stratagems of War, and Ruses de Guerre; either of them but little competent, as a slight examination will shew, to express the intention of the author. Though, if they had been nothing more than, as these terms import, a collection of tricks and artifices to be used in deceiving the enemy, the admirable arrangement of Frontinus would have rendered the collection a work of no ordinary utility. But the Stategematicon is infinitely more extensive in its plan and in its operation; for, according to the definition of Frontinus himself, all that a general can effect providently, usefully, magnificently, perseveringly, is included in the term Strategematics; which may therefore be rendered into exemplifications of the policy, or, perhaps, of the philosophy, of war. It is a study adapted to every occasion of the soldier, from the silent transactions of the smallest body in cantonments to the extended intercourse of military diplomacy between contending armies. Of the talents of Frontinus for such a work, exclusive of the evidence of his peculiar services and his writings, there is the testimony of Mlian, among the antients, who describes himself in the Preface to one of his works (de instruendis acibus) as encouraged to prosecute his subject by the knowledge to be derived from this illustrious man in Grecian tactics, while Vegetius acknowledges the fame of his writings on the Roman art of war; and, what may be deemed no less important in our times, he has received the approbation of the chiefs of the present French armies, so eminent for...
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