Excerpt from Not Much of a Story After All<br><br>I left England on the 4th of May to visit the theatre of the franco-german War of 71870, and with the intention of returning by way of Paris towards the end of the month, by Which time I thought Marshal macmahon's army. Would Joe sufii-r ciently encouraged to take possession of Paris, and end the mischievous absurdities of the Commune. The knowledge I acquired'by seeing, hearing, and reading, While it impressed me' Strongly. With the strategy of Count vori ~moltke, gave me a bad, opinion of the tactical ability of the: German gene rals, and left me in amazement at the blundering incapacity, hesitation, and weak carelessness of the French ones. There was no battle in Which the. French army was not either shamefully surprised, wantonly neglected in the supply of ammunition and feed, or ignorantly placed to receive the attack which they never ventured to give, and there was none in Which the Germans ever attempted bymanoeuvring, or anything but the bringing up in succession of vastly superior numbers and prodigal expenditure of life to secure success.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.