Excerpt from The Campaign of Magenta and Solferino: 1859
The campaign of 1859 in Northern Italy was one of the first of the epoch-making, rapidly conducted wars which marked the latter half of the nineteenth century. It was, moreover, as has been pointed out by the author of Imperial Strategy, the "first war in Europe which conveyed some preliminary indication of what railways can accomplish. The success of the French Army in this short and brilliant, if rather lucky, campaign was largely due to the efficient service of the southern railways." A study of the events of the war and of the various considerations which led to the somewhat unexpected determination to make peace, leads one to the conviction that, while a lavish expenditure on the outbreak of war can so far repair the neglect of the years of peace and plenty that armies may be improvised for a campaign of short duration, neither hurried organisation nor make-shift armies are equal to a protracted effort, or to oppose the forces of those who have used the long years of peace to prepare for the days of war.
So far as I am aware this is the first study of the war, compiled from official sources, which has yet appeared in the English language.
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