[PHPix2-devel] nderful ascendency

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Ult and laborious character, such as carrying horses on shipboard, are
fully demonstrated with diagrams. Marches, manoeuvres, detachments,
battles, are fully disclosed. Such investigations, when the French,
Italian, or German language was the medium, were comparatively easy; but
in order to give a proper comparative view, he was obliged also to study
Russian, which he did successfully; by this means he has given us a
masterly summary of the Russian system, with its immense battalions, its
thousands of military schools, and its Cossack skirmishers, of wonderful
endurance and formidable fierceness. The volume is a complete
description in detail of the principal armies, and of wider scope than
would be expected; for, while the author has been very full upon the
special topics assigned him, which did not include the duties of
Engineers and Engineer Troops, it is easy to see everywhere that these
latter would intrude themselves with the siren charms of a first love,
and nothing but the record could dissolve the spell. Indeed, he urgently
recommends to the Government the organization of Engineer troops,
specifying their equipments, points of instruction, and duties. In this
depart