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Title: Great captains : a course of six lectures showing the influence on the art of war of the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Cæsar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick, and Napoleon
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Dodge, Theodore Ayrault, 1842-1909
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C Hannibal, 247-183 B.C Caesar, Julius Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden, 1594-1632 Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786 Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Cambridge, Mass. : The Riverside Press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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sapped his power of decision. He began bya fatal mistake. Instead of meeting Caesar on his nativesoil, and fighting there for Rome, he moved to Greeceso soon as Caesar reached his front, and left the latterto supplant him in the political and armed control ofItaly. Caesar was wont to push for his enemy as objective,and one would expect to see him follow Pompey toGreece, for it is a maxim, and maxims arc commonsense, first to attack the most dangerous part of yourenemys divided forces. But there were seven Pompeianlegions left in Spain, and fearing that these might fallupon his rear, Caesar concluded to turn first toward thepeninsula, relying on Pompeys hebetude to remaininactive where he stood. He knew his man. It had taken but sixty days for Caisar to make himself , master of all Italy. In six weeks after reaching Spain, by a brilliant series of manoeuvres near Ilerda, in which he utilized every mistake Pompeys lieutenants made, I and without battle, for he wished to be looked on as
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90 GREAT CAPTAIXS. anxious to avoid the spilling of Roman blood, he hadneutralized and disbanded the seven legions. This ac-complishment of his object by manoeuvres instead offighting is one of the very best examples of its kind inantiquity, and is equal to any of Hannibals. Meanwhile,Pompey had not lifted a hand against him. This wasrjood luck; but was it not fitting that fortune shouldattend such foresight, activity, and skill? Caesar returned to Italy. He was now ready to fol-low his enemy across to Epirus. Pompey controlledthe sea with his five hundred vessels. Caesar had nofleet, and, curiously enough, had neglected, in the past fewmonths, to take any steps to create one. And yet hedetermined to cross from Br undisium to the coast ofGreece by sea. It is odd that he did not rather marchby land, through Illyricum, thus basing himself on hisown province; for a large part of his legions was al-ready on the Padus. But he chose the other means,and when, with half his force, he had stol

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