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Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: the Oldest Military Treatise in the World · active 6th century B.C. Sunzi — chapter 111 of 130 · ~167 words · public domain

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Mystification of one’s men, 131.

Nang Wa, xiii.

Napoleon Bonaparte, 5, 12, 148; his passage across Alps, 57; not hampered by central authority, 24; his “Maximes de Guerre,” quoted, 84, 109; his “Pensées,” quoted, 101.

Nelson, at Trafalgar, 37.

Nervousness, a sign of, 93.

Nicias, the Athenian general, 118; speech of, quoted, 125.

Night-fighting, 65.

Nine grounds (or situations), the, 72, 114.

Nine punitive measures, the, xxxix.

Nine variations, the, 71, 72, 74, 138.

“North hill”, battle of the, 57.

O-yü, town of, 57.

Omens, not to be regarded, 126.

Onset of troops, 37, 38.

Open ground, 116, 119, 137.

Opportunism, xlix.

Orders, not to be divulged, 142, 143.

Original text of Sun Tzŭ. See Sun Tzŭ.

Ou-yang Hsiu, quoted, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxviii.

Overawing the enemy, 141.

Over-caution, 158.

Over-solicitude for one’s men, 79.

Pa Chên T‘u, xviii.

Pa Wang, the five, 141.

Pan Ch‘ao, 63; at Shan-shan, 139, 150; his attack on Yarkand, 132, 167.

P‘an Kêng, 173.

P‘ang Chüan, xii, 40.

Passes, narrow, 100, 103.

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