Frank Leslie

Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Volume 25. Mrs Frank Leslie

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Author: Mrs Frank Leslie
Number of Pages: 596 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130672244
File size: 34 Mb
Download Link: Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Volume 25
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...and an equal number with 8; 3 mounted batteries; 12 batteries in Algeria--making a total of 449 batteries with 3,694 cannon, and the entire equipment manned by 502,000 men with 125,000 horses. In time of war France can dispose of twenty classes of 150,000 each, 3,000,000 in all, from which must be deducted one-sixth for losses, exemptions, etc., leaving the effective number in war 2,500,000. With this force splendidly equipped es it would be, there seems no doubt but France could hold her own against any attack and be enabled to sport with her antagonists. The fact that, as indicated recent German publications, the muster of men anil their stability in war are not as great or as marked us their neighbors, affords no ground for apprehension, for there is a consideration which offsets them all. In these clays of cold and calculating science neither numbers nor enthusiasm can avail to make good the default of more substantial resources. "In modern-warfare," said LouisXIV., unconsciously pronouncing his own condemnation, "it is the last piece of gold that wins," and no truer words were ever spoken. Plato's analogy of a moneyless state and a lean, wiry pugilist is long nince exploded. It was the accumulations of Frederick Yilliam nnd the "Great Elector" which enabled Frederick the Great to stand his ground against five nations during the Seven Years' War. It was the trois cents millions le reserve in the vaults of the Tuileries which philosophers and moralists may deplore the existence A those passions which lead men to mutual slaughter, they cannot dispense with the services of the soldier, nor forbid him to profit by their own researches. Every discovery madn by science is greedily seized upon and adapted to military purposes; ever...

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