Note 1 — Chapter IV · THE CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF
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See the king's letters to Moltke of Oct. 28, 1870: "Ihrer ... weisen Führung der Operationen," and of March 22, 1871: "Die unübertreffliche Leitung der Kriegsoperationen." Moltke, Gesammelte Schriften, i., 268, 9.