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SUPERIORITY OF NUMBERS.
THIS is in tactics, as well as in Strategy, the most general principle of victory, and shall be examined by us first in its generality, for which we may be permitted the following exposition: Strategy fixes the point where, the time when, and the numerical force with which the battle is to be fought.

By this triple determination it has therefore a very essential influence on the issue of the combat.

If tactics has fought the battle, if the result is over, let it be victory or defeat, Strategy makes such use of it as can be made in accordance with the great object of the War.

This object is naturally often a very distant one, seldom does it lie quite close at hand.