"With a pair of dividers, opened to a distance by the scale of from 17 to 20 miles in a straight line (which made from 22 to 25 miles, taking into account the windings of the roads), bending over, and sometimes stretched at full length upon his map, where the positions of his corps and the supposed positions of the enemy were marked by pins of different colours, he was able to give orders for extensive movements with a certainty and precision that was astonishing. Turning his dividers about from point to point on the map, he decided in a moment the number of marches necessary for each of his columns to arrive at the desired point by a certain day etc."
from General Jomini's ART OF WAR
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