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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: for future use, were introduced too late; and they had, in addition, the disadvantage that they excited the utmost indignation in the already soured mind of Kalckreuth, and were resented by the Prince of Hohenlohe, who commanded one of the divisions of the army and aspired to the chief command. It may be assumed with tolerable certainty that the Duke's real desire was to concentrate on the line of the Elbe, to await there the arrival of the Russian army, and then rapidly assume the offensive. But he once more allowed himself to be overruled, this time by the clamour of the war party, and it was determined to move forward without waiting for the Eussian army. On August 22, at the royal command, the Duke sent from Brunswick to the King a plan of operations prepared by Scharnhorst, with the assistance of Riichel and Phull, under his own superintendence. This scheme insisted that the Prussian armies should, above all things, not be divided; and that no time should be lost in assuming the offensive against the still separated French forces, which were on the right bank of the Rhine or in Bavaria, before they could concentrate and be joined by reinforcements. So great was the reputation of the Duke that the contents of this memorandum, which bore his signature, were transferred almost word for word into a royal cabinet order on the 27th. The only alteration worthy of mention was one which the modesty of the King dictated. He named the Duke generalissimo instead of acting in that capacity himself. But a few days after the King allowed himself, under the influence of the Prince of Hohenlohe and the officers who surrounded him, to be persuaded into altering this plan, and to consent to amendments which struck at the root idea, viz. the concentration under one hand of the whole army ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346825 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346820 |
| Weight | 1.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 In |
| List Price | $30.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 442 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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