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By Napoleon Bonaparte
Infantry, cavalry, and artillery, are nothing without each other.
- Source
- The Officer's Manual: Military Maxims of Napoleon (translated from the French by Colonel D'Aguilar), 1831 · Maxim XLVII, p. 41
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- Richard Milliken and Son, Dublin (Internet Archive scan of the 1831 edition)
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Maxim XLVII in The Officer's Manual: Military Maxims of Napoleon, translated from the French by Colonel D'Aguilar (Dublin: Richard Milliken and Son, 1831). The collection gathers maxims drawn from Napoleon's military writings, so this is a translator's English, not Napoleon's own French. The maxim continues: "They should always be so disposed in cantonments, as to assist each other in case of surprize."