🔖 Excerpt from Mémoires sur l'Avancement Militaire Et sur les Matières Qui S'y RapportentSous le despotisme, qui, comme l'anarchie ui velle tout l'avancement dépend du caprice et du hasard; le soldat peut devenir promptement général ou ministre, sans autre raison de son élévation que la volonté du prince.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.