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Le Brun brings forward Alexander in personal conflict with Porus, and endeavours to produce that impression by the energies of individual valour which the more extended operations of general slaughter always fail to effect. The in- vention of gunpowder has enveloped the move- ments of modern warfare in volumes of smoke, VOL. II. K 194 OLDCOURT from which, as from a thunder-cloud, issue those fires of destruction, that by a sort of invisible agency, sweep down whole ranks of defenceless victims.... Large masses of men wave to and fro in disastrous undulation, rolhng the tempest of war over a vast expanse of indistinct havoc and undefined devastation.
The divisions of modern armies are worked as component parts of the great machinery of war ; and each is effective, only as co-operating in the general movement. The personal strength and valour of an Achilles are of no avail before a discharge of cannon, or a volley of musketry.
The soldier's sword, except in an occasional charge of cavalry, rarely comes in contact with his enemy ; and all individual prowess is reduced to the common level of military discipline, or ob- scured in the cloudy maze of genera] confusion.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Le Brun brings forward Alexander in personal conflict with Porus, and endeavours to produce that impression by the energies of individual valour which the more extended operations of general slaughter always fail to effect. The in- vention of gunpowder has enveloped the move- ments of modern warfare in volumes of smoke, VOL. II. K 194 OLDCOURT from which, as from a thunder-cloud, issue those fires of destruction, that by a sort of invisible agency, sweep down whole ranks of defenceless victims.... Large masses of men wave to and fro in disastrous undulation, rolhng the tempest of war over a vast expanse of indistinct havoc and undefined devastation.
The divisions of modern armies are worked as component parts of the great machinery of war ; and each is effective, only as co-operating in the general movement. The personal strength and valour of an Achilles are of no avail before a discharge of cannon, or a volley of musketry.
The soldier's sword, except in an occasional charge of cavalry, rarely comes in contact with his enemy ; and all individual prowess is reduced to the common level of military discipline, or ob- scured in the cloudy maze of genera] confusion.
What to read after Oldcourt : a Novel 2?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Martin Archer Shee to read onlineMoreLess
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