Excerpt from Victories and Defeats: An Attempt to Explain the Causes Which Have Led to ThemThe Conservancy of Force or Energy - Heat Convertible into Force - The Replenishment of Vital Heat - Caesar on Rashness - Composition of the Roman Armies Reliefs of Fresh Troops Important - Necessity for one Supreme Directing Mind - Instance in German Army in late War - No Parallel in History to these German Successes - Obedience Imperative - The Important Moments in Battle - The One Tug More - Anything Unusual is Perplexing - Comparative Value of Numbers - Night Attacks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.