near so much facility as if his front was only half as great and was supported by the remainder of his own troops drawn up in rear.
The table below3 will show that the number of men in an army will have great influence in determining the best formation for it, and that the subject is a complicated one.
In making our calculations, it is scarcely necessary to provide for the case of such immense masses being in the field as were seen from 1812 to 1815, when a single army contained fourteen corps varying in strength from two to five divisions. With such large numbers nothing better can be proposed than a subdivision into corps of three divisions each. Of these corps, eight would form the main body, and there would remain six for detachments and for strengthening any point of the main line that might require support. If this system be applied to an army of one