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and are made upon meeting the enemy.

Throughout the course lectures the lecturer frequently accentuated the advantage
of interior lines and positions, and gave a special illustration in
the campaign of the French in the north in Germany, which occurred simultaneously with
the Italian campaign This same campaign he said illustrates how important
it is for each commander in chief to keep in mind the effect of
his part of the field upon the rest; and pointed out how after the first sucesses of
of Bonaparte in Italy, Austrian detachments were drawn away from the
army opposing the French on the Rhine, commanded by the Arch-Duke
Charles, thus leaving the latter without the superiority which accorded
to him the initiative.

The lecturer pointed out showed with what clear perception the Arch
Duke conducted the operations of his armies by swiftly and secretly reinforcing
the northernmost secretly and swiftly and falling upon and beating his Northern
Jourdan, thus compelling Morgan in the South to withdraw to the Rhine
and he stated the similitude in this vase to be the battle
Metaurus.

Throughout the lecturer dwelt upon the application of the
rules of land warfare to sea warfare, and illustrated this by many
similar situations from history.