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Show Little Change in Warfare. Contemporaries have always mentioned men-tioned the singular gravity of Napoleon. He could be expansive and even gay in youthful society when he was himself young but the mood never lasted, and historians mention his somberness in the Italian campaign when he was only twenty-six years old. The solemn profundity pro-fundity and fixity of his gaze always struck the stranger. He made himself respected and a little feared even by his friends. His art, of course, was different from the art of today, for his battles were won with army corps instead in-stead of armies, as we now account them. But at bottom, warfare is always al-ways the same. Joffre and Napoleon have this in common that the smile of both is particularly kind and engaging, engag-ing, and they praise freely those who have done well. |