Napoleon's War Maxim

Inferior Numbers

by Don Featherstone

With an army inferior in number, cavalry or artillery -- it would be well to avoid a general engagement, to supply the defect in number by rapid marches, the want of artillery by manoeuvres, and the inferiority in cavalry by the choice of a good position. In such a position the morale of a soldier counts for much.


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