Excerpt from Journal of Captain Pausch: Chief of the Hanau Artillery During the Burgoyne Campaign
There are two ways of translating. One is to paraphase the original: the other is to give the text literally. The first method admits of an elegant rendering, by which the different shades of an author"s meaning are often sacrificed to beauty of diction. The second, at the expense of style, aims to give clearly the writer"s ideas. This last is the plan I have adopted in this translation, believing that the reader would prefer to know just what Pausch intended to convey.
The translation of this Journal has been attended with peculiar difficulties, from the fact that much of it is in language now obsolete. Especially is this the case in regard to technical terms used to describe military man?uvres.
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