Show THE GREAT NAPOLEON how he tho of III troop an cx am picota good system is the wonderful concentration of alio french army in the plains 0 garft in 1806 another is the entrance of alio army upon the campaign of 1816 saya jomini la each of cases napoleon possessed tho ability to mako such arrangements that his columns starting from points widely separated were concentrated with wonderful precision upon the point of tho zono of operations and in this way ho insured alic successful issue of tho cam tho choice ot tho decisive point was the result of a skillful skill tul application of tho principles of strategy and the arrangements for moving tho troops gives us an example of logistics originated in his own closet it lias been long claimed that framed those instructions were conceived with so much precision and usually transmitted with so much clearness but I 1 have had frequent opportunities of knowing clial such wis not tho truth tho emperor was hiis own chief staff provided with a pair of dividers opened to a di stanco by tho scale of from seventeen to twenty miles in a straight line which nudo from twenty two to twenty five miles taking into account tho windings of the roads bending over and sometimes stretched at full length upon bis map where alio llio positions of his corps und the supposed positions of tho enemy acro marked by plus of different colors lie was able to give orders for movements with a certainty aud precision which were astonishing turning his dividers about from point to point on tho map ho decided in a moment tho number of marches necessary for each of his column to arrive at the desired point by a certain day then placing pins in the new positions and bearing in mind tho rato 0 marching that ho must assign to each column and tho honorof its setting out ho dictated instructions are alono enough to make anny man camons ncy coming from tho shores of lake con stanco lannea from upper puabla soult and davoust from bavaria and tho palatinate and from i franconia ran conia and the imperial guard from parn nil thai arranged in line ou tareo roads to debouch simultaneously between gera ami blauen plauen few persons in the army or in germany having any conception of the object of these movements which seemed so very complicated in tho amo manner in 1815 when had his army quietly in cantonment between the and the rhine nd wellington was attending fean in brunai brunei Bru nei both waiting signaller sign aller the invasion of france napoleon who was to bo at pans entirely engrossed with diplomatic ceremonies at tho head of his guard which had been but recently formed in tho capital fell like a thunderbolt upon and quart cra ahli columns arriving from all points 0 the compau with rare punctuality tua lity on the ath of june in tho plains of upon tho banks of tho napoleon did not lacavo paris until the tho combination nuovo acro the ro milb of wife calculations but their execution baj a ma ot logistic option girald thomm P gill of abo aorta arar ican prove by figure fron official toimi crt that choro are in h state today to day two hundred and fifty ia great nad ireland |