Marshall Turenne

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. To apologise for a book dealing with the campaigns of a celebrated General, but written neither by a soldier, nor by that far higher authority upon such subjects, a civil military expert, would be useless; for it is inconceivable that such an apology could be accepted. To the obvious retort, Then why did you write the book P the Author can only reply by saying, Why do most of us do many things which we ought not to do P and by expressing a hope that any ludicrous blunders to be found in the following pages may amuse his military readers as much as it has amused him to make them.