The Telegraph in War. — Our readers remarks Nature, will recollect the important part played by the telegraph in the Seven Days' War, the introduction of this new arm, so to speak, enabling Von Moltke to control all the strategical combinations with unerring accuracy from a small room in Berlin. To the telegraph the Prussians have now added the balloon, and already we hear that the French army encamped in the environs of Metz have been surveyed with the greatest care. Surely, if strategy is to play the part it did in former times in future battles, given two armies, one of which is by means of a balloon, in electric communication with the Head-quarter Staff, in perfect knowledge of the numbers at any one point, and the movements of the other, its success must be assured.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 283, 1 December 1870, Page 2
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