_“Phillip, King of Macedonia, is the single confidant of his
own secrets, the sole dispenser of his treasure, the most able
general of all Greece, the bravest soldier in his army. He
foresees and executes everything himself; anticipates events,
derives all possible advantages from them and yields to them when
to yield is necessary._
_His troops are extremely well disciplined, he exercises them
incessantly. Always himself at their head, they perform with
arms and baggage marches of three hundred stadia with alarming
expedition and making no difference between summer or winter,
between fatigue and rest._
_He takes no step without mature reflection, nor proceeds to a
second until he is assured of the success of the first and his
operations are always dominated by considerations of time and
place.”--Apollodorus._
The facility with which one familiar with the Strategetic Art may make
Grand Reconnaissance, even of an invisible theatre of action, and may
evolve accurate deductions from a mass of inexact and contradictory
reports is illustrated by the following practical examples, viz.: