Excerpt from A Retrospect of the Autumn Man uvres: With Five Plans IT is probable that there is no country in Europe in which military matters, generally, are so little understood as is the case in England. When war is being carried on, whether by ourselves or by other nations with whom we are in frequent con tact, the most lively interest is evinced by a very large section of the population. On the suspension of hostilities, men of profession come forward in order to extract the lessons which the latest occur renees may provide for our own benefit. These are accepted and recognized, inducing a certain amount of re ection and anxiety on the part of those who take active share in steering the vessel of State on her course. But, with the mass, the in terest roused fades with the excitement, giving way to other subjects of more immediate and touching. 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."