Note 492 — Chapter XLVII
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The Austrians censured the want of tactics of the Tyrolese. Some poetical sharpshooter defended his countrymen by an epigram, of which the following is a translation:—
"It is but chance, our learn'd tacticians say, Which without science gains the battle day; Yet would I rather win the field by chance, Than study tactics, and be beat by France."—S.