Excerpt from Wars of the Century: And the Development of Military Science The present writer has had to cover a large field in a small compass. He has endeavoured to make his book intelligible to those unfamiliar with professional military phraseology, and for this reason he has preferred to indicate the progress of military sciene rather by what is implied in the narrative than by a Special treatment which could hardly fail to be come unduly technical. His qualifications for the task he has undertaken are, mainly, that for many years he has given great attention to the campaigns of Napoleon, and that the later wars which he has described have fallen within his own recollection. Schoolfellows of his own fought in the Crimea, and the succeeding struggles of the century recall to him many personal details with an acute Vividness. W'ithout pretending to original research, he has en deavoured to follow the best authorities with judg ment and impartiality. The greater part of the book was written at Berne, which possesses one of the best military libraries in Switzerland, that of the General Staff, and the warmest thanks of the author are due to the Federal authorities by whose courtesy he was allowed to borrow books from its shelves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.