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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The difficulty . . . to be got over is to know how not only to invade with success; but likewise to retreat with safety.
THOMAS MORE MOLYNEUX
I kept the sea always on my flank; the transports attended the movements of the army as a magazine; and I had at all times, and every day, a short and easy communication with them. The army, therefore, could never be distressed for provisions or stores, however limited its means of land transport; and in case of necessity it might have embarked at any point of the coast.
SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY
Amphibious operations exploit the great facility and inherent flexibility of movement and maneuver that the sea affords in order to concentrate military power at the decisive time and place ashore
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