| Show STRAT STRATEGY EGIt on a ertsin occasion I 1 during Welling tons campaign Py rennes rennea that great captain bei bel being bellg 11 displeased with the dispositions general acton had bad made for receiving the assault otMa of marshal rebal soult who menaced him hirn in front ordered the 06 plan to be entirely ehan eban changed ged but the difficulty was to delay the attack of the french until the charge could be effected this the iron duke accomplished in person in the following manner doffing his cocked bat and waving raving it in the air he rode furiously to the head bead oc of a regiment aa as it if about to order a charge thereupon arose a tremendous cheer from the men which was taken up by corps after corpa p until it reverberated along the whole extent of pistons Pic tons line As the cheer died away hway wellington was heard to remark musingly a aa it if addressing himself soult is a skillful ekil but cautious commander and will not attach in force until lie he has ascertained the meaning ili iii of these cheers this will give time for th the e sixth division to come up and we shail shall beat him jt turned out aa as he anticipated soult naturally enough supposed these tremendous announced the arr rival riyal of large reinforcements and did not attack until loa toa loo tool late had be he struck at the right moment ho h would have won an easy victory vici ory as it was he be met with a bloody repulse thip thio vas as strategy 1 not the strategy of books but the strategy 91 0 ganius engendered and executed in the baco saco moment |
