Also available online through the Hathi Trust. Full text viewed 13 June 2018. "For the soldier there is no more speaking lesson than history. When we look at military history, we find that it contains a rich store of precedents which show most clearly what should be done and what should be avoided to attain success in war. Napoleon inculcated the study of history, and rightly so, for it is on the wealth of precedents, the experience of the past, that the education of all officers should be based." -- From the preface.