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The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

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He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

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Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

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Born: October 19, 1821
Died: August 18, 1870 (aged 48)
Bio: Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq was a French Army officer and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.

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