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Tu Mu closes with a note of warning: 夫水所以能濟舟亦有因水而覆沒者間所以能成功亦有憑間而傾敗者 “Just as water, which carries a boat from bank to bank, may also be the means of sinking it, so reliance on spies, while productive of great results, is ofttimes the cause of utter destruction.” ↩

The antecedent to 此 must be either 間者 or 用間者 understood from the whole sentence. Chia Lin says that an army without spies is like a man without ears or eyes. ↩

Words on Wellington, by Sir W. Fraser. ↩

Forty-One Years in India, chap. 46. ↩

See Col. Henderson’s biography of Stonewall Jackson, 1902 ed., vol. II, p. 490. ↩

See Col. Henderson’s biography of Stonewall Jackson, 1902 ed., vol. I, p. 426. ↩

For a number of maxims on this head, see Marshal Turenne (Longmans, 1907), p. 29. ↩

M. Chavannes writes in the Tʽoung Pao, 1906, p. 210: “Le général Pan Tchʽao n’a jamais porté les armes chinoises jusque sur les bords de la mer Caspienne.” I hasten to correct my statement on this authority. ↩

Marshal Turenne, p. 50. ↩

Aids to Scouting, p. 26. ↩

See Pensées de Napoléon Ier, no. 47. ↩

The Science of War, chap. 2. ↩

Aids to Scouting, p. XII. ↩

Maximes de Guerre, no. 72. ↩

Giles’ Biographical Dictionary, no. 399. ↩

The Science of War, p. 333. ↩

Stonewall Jackson, vol. I, p. 421. ↩

See Giles’ Dictionary, no. 9817. ↩

不入虎冗不得虎子 “Unless you enter the tiger’s lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger’s cubs.” ↩

Aids to Scouting, p. 2. ↩

Chʽien Han Shu, ch. 43, fol. 1. 顏師古 Yen Shih-ku in loc. says: 食音異其音基. ↩

Unterricht des Königs von Preussen an die Generale seiner Armeen, cap. 12 (edition of 1794). ↩

Marshal Turenne, p. 311. ↩

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