Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-19 | Page 6 | Victory for the Aggressor

victory for the aggressor A celebrated writer sas the wash ington post mentions the duke of cumberland and marshal soult as stout captains but unfortunate pos the confidence of the r luperi ors and subordinates but generally losing the day when they commanded marshal daun so long opposed to the great was another un fortunate general who lost battles but was ever a stubborn fighter and a trusted commander gen belongs to the class of soult and cumberland that he had an army with which to occupy mul den stamps him as a thorough aldier and that he saved even a part of that army after the titan battles of the twelve days shows that he is a commander of very considerable tal enta he was reduced to the feces s t of attempting a traditional rus tactic that had twice succeeded in europe too far from home he employed against oyama the plan of peter the great aga ast charles XII and of Kutus against napoleon it was not new fabius had tried it against hannibal and the parthiana Part hians lured crassus to destruction by it it the history of airfare dis closes that the aggressor has the ad vantage alexander hannibal caes ar and napoleon all took the initial ive it was not fabius nor even acl plo who beat hannibal it was capua where he ceased the aggressive and was buried in luxury and debauchery gustavus assailed his enemy let one read the brill ant campaign of montrose in scotland it he would real ze the adin tage of the first lick in our own country stonewall jackson and gen forrest allus grated the superiority of aggressive tactics