strategema

It is thus we are enabled to conciliate or to exer - cise caution; and whoever regards the strategema - tical pajt of war will readily recognize the obliga - tions he may owe to the knowledge of a trifling custom.

A History of the campaigns of the British forces in Spain and Portugal : undertaken to relieve those countries from the French usurpation : comprehending memoirs of the operations of this interesting war : characteristic reports of the Spanish and Portuguese troops, and illustrative anecdotes of distinguished military conduct in individuals, whatever their rank in the Army 1812