Show cavid DAVID AS A jeneral jENE KAL in the popular discussion of ther merits merite of great military men ancient and modern it is i refreshing to note dote a prominent frenchman coming out with the evidence that king kai david was an n officer whose military genius on OD the field of battle wash was equal t abat of napoleon Napo leoa or frederick Freder fok ilk indeed it was waa dot sul au horlor gibes they lived in a strates bratek to io era while tte tie monarch was wa wl without chwa any by such advantage of dionilio dio disc ioline ilio and example from the evidence adduced it would appear that king david to 1 entitled to rank as a the bead of civilized military science eci enoe ence as a moses is in the chief of its jurisprudence it boeing teli ic also alao w arthy of note buth of those great leaders their suot knowledge to the be ut of jehovah Je bovah the Fro frenchman frolichman who bee thus expressed himself is M Dieula tuy the the well known explorer to in who read at a late mot me ting of the Acad academic emle des dee inscriptions et belh ballif a lettre to paris a very interesting ac couitt ul of his bia visit isit to the scene of ef tbt between cibit david att the th parme ones in of bed the general toll es ei from gehi aebi ta gaier as AI stated I 1 ID a 2 v the lowdon L udon opinion summarizing atia says M X how altair after the capture of jerusalem by dav david id and the establishment of the israelite monarchy the philistines resolved to crush the nascent kingdom and how after alternations of success sad nd failure they oc angled the valley of situated at the foot of the slopes which led from the west to jerusalem it was then according to M Dieu lafoy that david i constantly attacked by his enemies executed eluted one of the finest noli military tary in a beuvers recorded in bit history story M dieu lafoy while indicating the various advances made by military art and having shown that before the wars of the modes medea no nation had any acquaintance with the rules of higher tactics and strategy dwelt upon the fact that david was the first of the israelite leaders to form drilled and disciplined troops and point ed ad out what good use oae the me king made maae ot of this army in the valley of rephraim benhaim Bep Rep haim the plan of of the battle clearly described in the bible comprised a flank march a rapid change of front the rapid encompassing of the ibe left wing of the philistines and an attack from behind on this wing this was a complicated and bold turning movement very difficult to execute and something quite out of the common for abe age in which it was carried out the explorer while at the theater of operations made use of the general topography 0 of the region in order to reconstitute the principal phases of the battle and in his bis address before the academy pointed out that this movement presented a striking analogy with those executed by frederick 11 II at the battles of mollwitz aud and Ropa bach and by napoleon at austerlitz in the conduce conque of this thia operation king divid gave evidence of the highest capacities taking advantage of all the inequalities of the ground forming his troops afresh in the woland wo dand onar charging ging impetuously and M Dieu lafoy instated insisted very vary strongly upon the similarity of his military genius to that of napoleon after all it would appear that in the of militant bodler an B well as to ID the government of a people in times of peace the nation f fi aral ebes an illustration which has not been surpassed even by the greatest men of modern |