The Southern Magazine, Vol. 4

Excerpt from The Southern Magazine, Vol. 4: September, 1872 While we must concur in the adverse criticism of the Operations of the 14th of August, we cannot join in that against Marshal Bazaine on account of the battle of Gravelotte. He was right in making this last attempt. But we are obliged to censure his faulty dispositions of the 16th of August, as well as his inactivity of the 17th, since already on the 16th he ought to have achieved what he attempted and failed to do on the 18th. In this sense certainly that battle was a sacrifice, but in no other. He showed little military foresight, however, on the 17th, when in his rapport sommaz're he advised the Emperor Napoleon of the. Intended march by Woippy and Briey to Verdun 3 and he de ceived his Emperor with hopes which he should have known to be impossible of realisation. 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.