art of war

“Hamilton is quoted as saying that Washington “never read any book upon the art of war but Sim's Military Guide,” and an anonymous author asserted that “he never read a book in the art of war of higher value than Bland's Exercises.””

The True George Washington

“These observations are not for the "heaven-born," who from their closets scan with eagle glance fields of battle, whose mighty pens slay their thousands and their tens of thousands, and in whose "Serbonian" inkstands "armies whole" disappear; but it is hoped that they may prove useful to the young adopting the profession of arms, who may feel assured that the details of the art of war afford "scope and verge" for the employment of all their faculties.”

Generals, Confederate States of America, Biography, Soldiers, Louisiana, Southern States, Army, Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 9th., History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, United States, Campaigns, Military Life, Reconstruction.

“Jomini could not have stated the key to the art of war more concisely.”

Generals, Confederate States of America, Biography, Soldiers, Louisiana, Southern States, Army, Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 9th., History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, United States, Campaigns, Military Life, Reconstruction.

“He had learned the art of war under Marshal Hermann Saxe—“the professor,” in the words of Frederick the Great, “of all the European generals of his age”—and at the Battle of Rossbach had saved the army’s rear guard from destruction.”

Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

“The son of that general, who likewise bore the name of Theodosius, was educated, by skilful preceptors, in the liberal studies of youth; but he was instructed in the art of war by the tender care and severe discipline of his father.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire