Note 67 — Chapter II · THE MEANS OF CONDUCTING WAR

Also the pretense of false facts, as, for example, practised by Murat on November 13th, 1805, against Prince Auersperg, in order to get possession of the passage of the Danube at Florisdorf; the like stratagem which a few days later Bagration practised against Murat at Schongraben; the deceptions under cover of their word of honor practised by the French Generals against the Prussian leaders in 1806 at Prenzlau; these are stratagems which an officer in the field would scarcely dare to employ to-day without being branded by the public opinion of Europe.