Excerpt from The Outlines of Military Geography In putting forward these "Outlines of Military Geography" I am deeply conscious of its many imperfections and the difficulty of satisfying the requirements of all classes of students by either not giving enough or giving too much information. I have endeavoured, therefore, to give a sufficient outline of each of those countries which possess a special interest for Great Britain, to enable the ordinary reader to grasp the more important points of military geography, without which he cannot pursue his further studies in military of strategy and history with an intelligent interest. At the commencement of my own military career I found myself studying history and strategy for a long time with a very perfunctory geographical knowledge of the theatres of war I was reading about, and it was many years before I discovered my mistake. 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.