The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-03
NAVAL STATEGY REcALlE

tortuons chase In West Indian vskSM
must have been close s&uaents OF N.s
Icons wonderful tactics tina SO neariv :.
him the victory over England lust h.3.
the battle OF Trafalgar These sr-sz
operations OF the great Corsican =.
lengthy II not eulD2lstlc mention from 4
Archibald Alison in his History az 5.
rope" and /, is from the Scottish auth.
first volume that the facts here appenS.
are condensed.
Napoleons military genius was H.
displayed in the Organization OF his fcr.-
With their extension and the muitipIcsfS
OF their wants his powers appeared IL a
pand in nn almoss miraculous proporf,.
and the active superintendent Of n
which seemed the utmost limit OF huu-J
exertion when only $1,000 men REQUIRED 4.
be surveyed, was not sensibiy diminisA
wnen 10000 were assembled.
IN 1906 Bonaparte's mind was filled y,
the idea OF invading England. He arrsns.
at Bclogne a pretended flotilla of inyass1
erined .ith cannon treyer intended q n
used) With such marvellous skill that Il b
soldiers could be put on it-and wers n
praet!ce--in ten minutes. He merely A
tended this flotilla 10 serve as transno,
for 10000 men when the right Tine NJ
come That would not be until he IN
gathered vast fleet In the English ~,
mel. while the English fleets were deoo,s
TO distant parts Of the world.
Napoleon carried out this scheme ~,
such consumlnate skill that but "a
couple Of curious mishaps it would a.,
succeeded. His real armada was To asser
bic at Martinique and was to return a
denly TO Europe while the British sausS
rons were dispatched to distant points \,
succor their menaced colonial possessos1
The stratagefn thus ably conceived 9,
completely successful. Not one person
the British dominions. except the sagacou
Admiral CollingwOod. penetrated the y,
design. The French dscoy fleets returned
safety from the West Indies to the Eur
pean ATTITUDES. leaving Nelson three weef
sail In the rear, and when the emperor n,
al Boulogne. in August, 1905. at the M
OF 100, 600 men. fifty ships of the line We,
assembled In The Bay OF Biscay. when N
united British squadrons did not amount
much more than half that force.
The following valuable note. written
Napoleon at the time OF his leaving N
camp at Boulogne in September 1906, a
plains further the particulars Of this KruI
project:
What was my design in creating the n,
tilla OF Boulogne? ! wished 10 assemNN
forty or fifty ships o. the line in tho ",
Dor Of Martinique. by operations combine
In the harbors of Toulon. Cadiz. Ferrol N
Brest; 10 bring them back suddenly to Dogu
logn0; TO find myself in this way duri,Z
fifteen days the master of the sea to kar
10000 men encanped or the coast 5000
5000 vessels in tie fiotilla, and to set III
the moment the signal was given Of the Il
rival Of the combined fleet. The projs
has failed. II Admiral Villeueuve. insts
OF entering the harbor of Ferrol had COZ
tented himself with joining the spanh
squadron ana instantly made sail for Bre
anu Joihed AaHlrai Gantheaufne' my err
MouIu nave embarked ana 1t was all oys/
WIN Ehsiahd. by constructing praams ~
sghpoats dppe3reG 10 De ouposing cannc
WIN cannon ana the enemy In this MAJ
ner we're deceived Ihey conceived that
INTENDED 10 attempt the passage by mat
iorce' by mean Of my fiotilla.
by previous treaty with Spain the n
Yer was pouhu 70 add thirty ships OF
ne ~, 20 tne ihlr'y feisht OF france, ana
az i,V'VcV men were 70 invade EuRlar7
NaPo!eoh nad oeen preparing FOR years
'n'S great dow.
AZ 'he appointed Time the French nes
started on their decoy business across u
Atlantic. and pretended IN mako a yr,d
racre, IN tho pr,,i.h w. I,.,s. IN.
,he1, GOT ,bara 80. rs. ~
places and niun5srad otb"rs AZ, 800 ao, ~ =.
safely to Pochafor, vi,hn,,, M ,,s,,,ny =,
british warshins 7, ,r;rhtanaa 49, ErsIt,
IN sec s,nh go hiooi,as" .,,s. ~. \.
,svr rmsa u.ae -, - IN 'i' - NJ M.s
an Aarrir,I I1Iiar,o,,,. "a ~ "" r,a.,o
aud c.rnhi,,,,,, ,~,.S S 60, ~ ~ 9in iorw
Inc Il, ali aish+aer ., Is -, "a. 'A =
ten fr,gates--,u ~, VI ny my
80 IN a. pusheu again across 'ne ~
tv.en.v 'p,a sbin- - ~. 1 ,t. W"
Brest on the same GRAND ant ,roylSsuu
seemed now to begin to spoil the work
the new armada, for an extraordinary cali
lasting all through April and May kent bin
oooped there SO Napoleon told him 10 SD
there till the other fleet crossed the Atlar
tic.
Meanwhile Nelson was in the most cru
state of anxiety. He was bearing up fra
the Gulf OF Palma for his old position
Toulon, when, on April 4, he met the bf
Phoebe with the long wish.d-for INTEL
gence that Nilleneuye had again put TO "a
and when last seen was steering Tor y
coast OF Africa Upon this Nelson set Sd
for Palermo under the impression that the
had gone 10 Egypt, but feeling assured
the 1lth. from the information brought
his cruisers, that they had not taken "
direction. he instantly turned and beat
with tho utmost difficulty against strcs
westerly winds to Gibraltar, devoued