This historic book may have numerous typos; missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1912. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII NAPOLEON'S QUEST OF BERNADOTTE AND BLUCHER ON the 1st October; Ney; fearing that Biilow might pass at Wartenburg and cut him from Dresden; ordered Bertrand to the former; It was; however; Bliicher who was now at Wartenburg. He had marched to Jessen; setting free Biilow and Tauenzein to return to Bernadotte. Sacken; having performed his function as flank guard; had now rejoined Bliicher. Bertrand was in Wartenburg on the 2nd October; in front of the Prussian bridge head; which was at the salient of the bend of the Elbe in the neck of which Wartenburg lies.1 The Prussians had selected this place as quite theoretically suitable for forcing a passage; but they had omitted to reconnoitre the area within the bend; and were ignorant of the fact that it was exceedingly unfavourable for deployment after they had crossed under the protection of their artillery sweeping the peninsula. It was marshy and cut up by backwaters which; when the Elbe was in flood; were quite impassable; and were so in great part at all times. The village of Wartenburg stood behind one of these; and also had in front of it an embankment to protect it from floods. It was right in the centre of the neck; and was practically safe against a mere frontal attack. It could only be reached by troops passing along a narrow strip of land between it and the Elbe; in the part above the bridges. Whilst the Prussians underestimated the defensibility of the Wartenburg position; Bertrand erred in the opposite direction; for he had only recently seen it at a time 1 Map IV. (.). when the Elbe was in very high flood. He believed it to be almost impregnable. At 7 A.M. on the 3rd October; Prince Charles of Mecklenburg passed the Prussian bridges with three battalions of Yorck's corps. It was only when he...
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A very good book on a rather obscure subject.By Bill HenslerThis books goes though all the types of ancient warships from the first files of single rowers to the later Triremes and larger ships. The purchaser is given some pictures of drawings of the ancient ships; some models; and a fair amount of first hand information. Basically; from what I was able to gleam it appears the Trireme was about as "good as it gets" for an ancient warship. There were bigger versions but warships are often a compromise in a design and it appears that for cost; utility; ease in action; and overall fit in the ancient forces the ancient Trireme was about the best tool in the trade until superseded by the larger galley. However; more had been learned from the salvaging of wrecks and the new Greek Trireme Marathon has been much better for finding out modern information. I enjoyed the information from this book and it was well worth the purchase price. I did very much enjoy reading this book.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Despite it short length is a fairly good introductionBy YodaThis book is part of the Osprey "New Vanguard" series and; as such; is very short. It is only 48 pages in length. About a third of these consist of illustration of one type of another (i.e.; artist's illustrations of battles; photographs of vessels on various art of antiquity [i.e.; vases; etc]; maps; etc.). Hence the book can only; at most; just touch upon the subject. Thus the relevant question becomes; how well does it do this? The answer is surprisingly well.The reader gets an idea of how vessels in during this time period were constructed; learns that during nearly this entire period vessels were "dual purpose" in their design and use (i.e.; the served for both commerce and war); only towards the end of the period were vessels constructed specially for use as military vessels and tactics used during the period (almost entirely boarding with ramming coming into its own only towards 500 BC when more specialized and maneuverable war vessels were introduced.All and all a fairly good introduction that just touches the surface of the subject (in 48 pages how much more can it do?) of the topic that can be read in about an hour or so.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. POLYCRAFTS / PROTOTYPEBy Vincent• Contacts in the distant horizon in nautical history.• Not a pirate's "Polly" parrot; yet seeing in a serious subject.• Polycrafts' innovations is in seafarers' salty heritage.
