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Identifier: moltkebiographic00morr Title: Moltke, a biographical and critical study Year: 1894 (1890s) Authors: Morris, William O'Connor, 1824-1904 Subjects: Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von, 1800-1891 Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 Publisher: London : Ward and Downey (limited)
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Text Appearing After Image: MASTERLY VIEWS OF CHANZY. 337 This project of Chanzy was, from every point ofview, the best that could be formed as affairs stood ;even if it had failed, as we think would have hap-pened, it was not hopeless, and it was at least safe,and it was the one that Moltke expected andfeared.^ Most unhappily for France, Gambetta hadlent an ear to the counsels of a theorist isfnorant ofwar, and had already committed himself to a grandscheme of operations on an imposing scale, in whichhis fervid imagination beheld a glorious prospect.He had been forcibly impressed by the success withwhich he had recently moved large masses from theSaone to the Loire, and had unquestionably sur-prised the German commanders ; he had organized,we have seen, a new force in the South, which hadbeen named the 24th corps; he had called intobeing the 25th, near the Loire; and opinion inFrance was eager for the relief of Belfort, defended,we have said, heroically for months, and for a senter successivement, et en forces,
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