Excerpt from A Sketch of Suwarow and His Last Campaign: With Observations on Mr. Alison's Opinion of the Archduke Charles as a Military Critic, and a Few Objections to Certain Military Statements in Mr. Alison's History of Europe It was the purpose of the late Major Macready to illustrate the account of Suwarow's last and brilliant campaign by plans of bis actions and important operations, corrected from personal examination of the localities: and we have to regret that he did not live either to fulfil this intention, or to give a final revision to his MS. The memoir is now printed from a transcript by Mrs. Edward Macready, which she placed in the Editor's hands, accompanied by her husband's private journals; a perusal of which has led him to form a very high estimate of the writer, both as a soldier and a man. The following were the leading incidents in the career of this accomplished officer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.