The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-12-19
THE BATTLE OF Thu NATIONS.
uapoleon's Military Movements and his
Blunders.

HE bAIIkE VF lHk NAllvNN.
Uapoleon's Military Movements ana his
Blunders.
Quick growths decay quickly. Ma
poleon's precocity astonished the world,
but his early failure of faculties is
equally wonderful. After the battles of
Eckmuhl he was barely q second rate
general. Aspern was a failure. Wa
gram was q failure. The entire Russian
campaign was a failure. At Lutzen he
was barely not defeated. At Bautzen,
with overwhelming forces, he con
luered, but made no prisoners. His
victory at Dresden was due chiefly to q
lucky topography. By pushing Van
damme into peril and utterly failing to
support him, that Generals army was
annihilated. BY pushing Oudinot, and
nfterward Ney, too far north at Gross
Beeren and Dewnewitz, and MacDon-
aid too far south at Katzbach, their ar
mics were defeated and almost ruined.
In short, the campaign of the Elbe was
4 failure. Napoleon's management was
bad. Even the illiterate and stupid
Butcher outwitted him.
Napoleon. Spain, England, substan-
tally all the Germanic sovereignties,
Sweden and Norway and Russia and
Austria, through his vicious statesman
ship, we're in alliance and were resolved
to conquer Or die. In October, 1913,
he had become much weakened by sue
,essive disasters. The allies determ-
med on Il bold movement. Schwartzen-
berg, in command of the Austrian and
Russian forces, marched to his rear
from the south, and Butcher with Prus-
slams and Bernadotte with Swedes from
the North. made q like movement.
Napoleon was then at Dresden. The
allies were immensely superior to him
in numbers. A military tyro ought to
have known that q concentration CT his
forces was necessary. Especially was q
concentration necessary when his com
munication with France was threatened.
Napoleon saw clearly his peril. Weeks
before he forwarded to his War Minis
ter in Paris an order to mar and pro-
vision fortresses along the Rhine with a
view TO defensive warfare on that from
tier Yet when bo saw his commnnica.
tions Threatened from both nortL and
sout, md the destruction If his amy
imminent, he delayed. His mind seemed
nora1vzad
In ndd;tion N the army which be a.
tually led into battle at Leipzig, he had
tered in d,ffarent earr;sons IN and naar
the Ralt;c and on tha Elhe Tho,gl,
them to ra,na;n and all we're fn,l1v
taken prisoners. Even when he did
ouit Dresden to march to Leinzio. he had
time TO collect tl, oarrisons Of Dresden
I Mnissen Torcor W;ttanhurr and Mac
debnrr maxine a tot,l oe on o0O Tti q
inexnlicable Fiat Nonoleon allowed
tbose n rono,n ,1la Tho,,ab t;n,a
was terribly precious. and tbonrb the
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