The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-08-27

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lrsiru adopted ihsi plan. IN ", elln.
lan being oae fsaols,l bg te'h Ne
French lfusslsn isfccs. shd consist.
Ing simply n IN aivanee apen lhe
.ail ~ 'ho opposite party r. ac
eesslally inauenfuie sHeha campaign
would. of course require, hrsta con.
eenirniion ~ troops and. second m
accumulation IT war maieriai on
sery large scale. and, even with Nv
ropcan facilities, No little time wonl,l
be required 10 make such premm.
llons. A. to the auk and file Of
the .wo armies. he was inclined 10
suppose that the Pfussian troops
wee the better trained, basing this
view on the fact that, "a the Prussian
'V"sc''l''oh Is pu' 'o' '"r'e years
WINE tue rtc'cn Is TOT Se'cn' 'no
RUSSIAN ranks were more constantly
c"''slnV' auu ''' u''io''on VI '''n'
tory knowledge among the people
was therefore greaterthan'n W France
I A A 4. A. 4 A
as 10 'he generals, however heg'Ves
.ne superiority oee'aeuly 70 thc
French lhey nave oceh horo"ghy
tr'eo III the Orlmeah anu italIih
wars po.'l OF ''om CONTESTS OF great
"ogh''"'c, not 70 SPEAK OF .nc con
s'aht pr'cuce aiiofueu III Algeria
Inc rruss'oh generals on '''e o'hcr
hahd' had not haa an opportunity 10
snow the'r merits, 1ho Austrian war
OF 1000, oe'ng devoid OF ac''ons anu
movements sulhc'ent 70 aiiord q test
oi military aolllty' Won Moltke, ~
particular nc thought, did not merit
tue reputation nc possesses, h's rc'
nown beng based only on defeating
an old ana incompetent general at
Sadowa, when, so defective was his
plan OF battle there, he would have
been utterly defeated, had his antago-
MIST been general OF tact or ability.
10 instance; the Prussian plan OF
battle was TO advance two columns
from two different points upon Ben
} edek, There being no communlca-
ton between these two columns, 1t
2 was the first dictate OF generalship
to advance the whole Austrian army
upon the nearest column and crush
= it before tho second could come up
This done,it would" have been~easy
, , to turn upon the remaining column
, and defeat that, instead OF whlc'
! General Benedek calmy awaited TN
II juncturc OF the columns, and sufier
cd himself to be engaged u 'front.' pl
y one while the other took nm IN tl'
rear. Napoleon inc first wou''
= never nave done TINS, of"our owl
: jackson, Ihey wohld nave aa
Z vanced rapidly IN full force on IN
separated columns, ehgageoahd 90
. feated them serfaf'm' An'irr econ
: cllablc" here observing that Vo'
4, Moltkc then was, after all, an over
: rated man, and as little deserved M
> reputation as did Grant, deneri
Johnston replied that Grant wou'
: never have remained stlil as bent
7 dek did but would nave advances
and engaged the hostile column
! !, separately. Passing from the mel 2
Aratcgctlcal views of tale case, W
- General remarked that he was 81,
: priscd to know q 50 much symp'
thy in the South for Prussia
= Napoleon is regarded as a wise az
y sagacious ruler who had mac
lg Franco one Of the frccst countries
lc p,,,.a,.o .n,l thot n,,,vhoro cou,d
he ''''opo' '"' ." !.
!, man hha pe''er pfo'ec'loh iof ~ =
~ life and property than there. ~
70 sympathics of Europc would be wi