1 Hans Delbruck, History of the Art of War: Vol. 4 the Dawn of Modern Warfare, 1985 Lincoln, Neb., Univ. of Neb. Press (originally published 1920 Berlin) p297
2 Delbruck p297
3 Delbruck p225
4 Gordon Craig, “Delbruck: The Military Historian” in Peter Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy; 1986 Princeton Univ. Press p345/p>
5 R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy; the Encyclopedia of Military History, 2d ed., 1986 New York Harper & Row p546
6 Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War, 1965 Cambridge, MA Dacapo p111
7 Byron Farwell, The Encyclopedia of 19th Century Land Warfare,2001 New York, W.W. Norton & Co. p818 and Gunther E. Rothenberg; The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon, 1977 London Batsford Ltd p217
8 Trevor Royle, Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856, 2000 New York Palgrave Macmillan p564
9 Trevor Royle, p412 and Byron Farwell p230