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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.