Excerpt from The English Invasion of Germany It must be conceded that India absorbs men, a figure which, at the present moment, one would be less than ever inclined to reduce. The other colonies would absorb certainly in Ireland, where the Germans might be disposed to make some attempt, about men will need to be left; finally, in England itself, would be necessary, if only to guard the depots. There remain a good for the expeditionary army. But that is the figure of the future division of cavalry, 160 to 180 big guns, and ...
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Excerpt from The English Invasion of Germany It must be conceded that India absorbs men, a figure which, at the present moment, one would be less than ever inclined to reduce. The other colonies would absorb certainly in Ireland, where the Germans might be disposed to make some attempt, about men will need to be left; finally, in England itself, would be necessary, if only to guard the depots. There remain a good for the expeditionary army. But that is the figure of the future division of cavalry, 160 to 180 big guns, and, of auxiliary troops, perhaps in all men or thereabouts. To take the offensive against Germany with men! An untenable proposi tion, you will say, which will raise a smile in Berlin, whence such ill-natured comments issued at the time of the humiliating reverses of the Boer War. The proposition is by no means so untenable; and, in order to demonstrate the fact, it is only necessary carefully to lay down the various conditions under which an armed attack on the coast of Germany might successfully be effected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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