GREAT CAPTAINS

A COURSE OF SIX LECTURES

SHOWING THE INFLUENCE ON THE ART OF WAR OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF

ALEXANDER, HANNIBAL, CÆSAR, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, FREDERICK, AND NAPOLEON

BY THEODORE AYRAULT DODGE Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel United States Army, Retired List. Author of “The Campaign of Chancellorsville;” “A Bird’s-eye View of Our Civil War;” “Patroclus and Penelope—A Chat in the Saddle,” etc., etc., etc.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge

Copyright, 1889 By THEODORE A. DODGE All rights reserved

TO John Codman Ropes IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MANY ACTS OF FRIENDSHIP AND HELPFULNESS AND IN GENUINE APPRECIATION OF HIS ACUMEN AS A MILITARY CRITIC AND HIS FELICITY AS AN AUTHOR THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED WITH CORDIAL ESTEEM BY THE AUTHOR