Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-01
Prom The Cincinnati Enquil
I'm nm euSe Armies.

There Is little doubt that the armies now
IN Washington and its vicinity amount tc
tue immense aggregate of near 200 600
men on eaeh side, or 400 600 cumbatants
Whenever general battle shall occur II
will not only have no parallel on the western
continent IN the forces engaged, but hardly
one in the history even of modern Eurone
will vie with it. The great battles of Ma.
poieon were generally fought with numbers
tar lnf1rior to those TO under the wells of
Washington. For instance, at Austerli,z
where Napoeon defeated the combined
armies of Russia and Austria, he had hpt
1 $4,000 troops the allies had loo 600 At
Jena and Auerstadt where he broke the
power of Prussia, his forces were not over
10000 strong. Al the great battle of
Wagrum, fought with the Austrjqms onthe
banks Of the Danube in 1869. .he. had bnt
i5o,eOO men. At Bor6dine. under tie wallis
.of Moscow. he had hut 10000 to oppose
the Russa\s, At Waterloo he did not
huve rs excSed SO. 900 'troers. Mt yne ~
the battles IN Italy or Spain even equalled
tins ihst number. The only battle field
we now reeniiect OF were the cnmhatants
were as numerous as those around Wash,
| ingtnn. was Leipsic, in 1913, where Ma
poieon had LIS ,000 and the alIies-Rus-
SXpups
Germans-numbered 800 600 Nearly balf
million of men took part in tins tremen-
dou7 battle, which was knonn as the com
bat of the giants. 1t lasted three DAYS.
and ended in a complete overthrow of Ma
poleon, who was driven into France, where
series of disasters commenced that did
not end until Napoleon abdicated his crown
and was exlled to the Island of Elba. in
/ NJ, hofs
soil Of the United States where 60 600 conn
batants took part in 1t on both sidesl
From these figures we can Judge of what
a battle we have reason to expect when
the hosts Of Mcclellan and Beaureeard
more than twice the number of those of
Napoleon ard Wellington at Waterloo.
come IN collision on the banks of the poto-
mac. 1t will be an event that will be the
great military feature, probably, for aces
TO come OF martial prawess in America
Washington never had thirty thousand men
IN one army under his command jackson
never had fifteen thousand, and Scott never
before the present year had seen twenty
thousand troO1s under his orders. Great
Is the ability required to muuuver and han
die such large body of men, and bring
them all into action ut the proper time and
place. The late battle at Bull Run extend
cd over seven miles from one end of our
line to another. AT Washington, pr9babl
the battle may be raging over a field double
this tize.
10 know what is going on in such at am.
phltheater, and to be prepared to order I'D
reserves and strengthen every exposed
point, requires the highest degree of entel.
lect. AT the battle of Bull Run half Of
both armies never fired shot. Beaure-
gard had forty thousand men at Manassas
junction, only three miles distant. whom
he never used, and yet he would have
been defeated had it not been for the oppor
tune and unexpected arrival of a portion of
General JohnSon's army from the upper
Potomac. Mcdowell had a powerful res
erve, that took In part whatever in the ac-
tlGn, and yet was strong enough to have
beaten back JpEnson's division if it had
been on hand at the proper moment. We
have confidence that Mcclellan has not on
ly plenty Of men, but believe he knows how
to use them.