Bonaparte finished his first Italian campaign by winning the battles of St. Michaels, Rivoli and Mantua, marching 200 miles and taking 20,000 prisoners, all in less than four days. In 1805, the French infantry in the manoeuvres which captured 60,000 Austrians, marched from 25 to 30 miles a day. In 1806 the French infantry pursued the Prussians at the same speed. In 1814, Napoleon’s army marched at the rate of 30 miles per day, besides fighting a battle every 24 hours. Retrograding for the succor of Paris, Napoleon marched 75 miles in thirty-six hours. On the return from Elba, 1815, the Imperial Guard marched 50 miles the first day, 200 miles in six days and reached Paris, a distance of 600 miles, in twenty days. * * * * * _“The fate of a battle always is decided by the lack of the few minutes required to bring separated bodies of troops into co-operation.”--Napoleon._ POSITION POSITION _“War is a business of position.”--Napoleon._ By the term Position is signified those relative advantages and disadvantages in location, which appertain to the aggregate posts occupied by the kindred army, as compared with the aggregate posts occupied by the adverse army. Advantages and disadvantages in Position are of three classes, viz.: (a) Those which appertain to the Column of Attack (b) Those which appertain to the Column of Support. (c) Those which appertain to the Column of Manoeuvre. STRATEGETIC SITUATIONS A Strategic Situation, and whether in warfare or in Chess-play, is produced by the presence, in any Strategetic Plane, _i.e._, theatre of conflict, of two or more opposing Strategetic Entireties, _i.e._, contending armies. These latter are of four classifications and are denominated as follows: (a) The Kindred Determinate Force. (b) The Adverse Determinate Force. (c) The Kindred Hypothetical Force. (d) The Adverse Hypothetical Force. RULE I _Given the Strategetic Entireties present in a given Strategetic Situation, designate the opposing Prime Strategetic Factors and express the relative values of each in the terms of the Strategic Syllogism._ THE STRATEGIC SYLLOGISM Having classified the existing Strategetic Situation, it is necessary next to designate the opposing Columns of Attack, of Support, and of Manoeuvre. Then, by comparing these Prime Strategetic Factors, to determine the net advantage, disadvantage, or equality that exist between them and to express this condition in the terms of the resulting Strategic Syllogism. In the construction of a Strategic Syllogism, the Strategic, _i.e._, the positional value of each of the opposing Prime Strategetic Factors contained in a given Strategetic Situation, is expressed in terms made up of letters and symbols, viz.,