THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
355 
A LECTURE 
ON 
THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1866 IN GERMANY. 
BY LIEUT.-COLONEL E. MILLEE, E.A., W, 
“ Sua cuique exorsa laborem 
“ Fortunamque ferent. Rex Jupiter omnibus idem. 
JEneid x. 3. 
Prefatory Remarks . 
On the 1st December 1866, 1 received an application from the managers 
of the i( London Institution,” to give a lecture on the late war in Germany 
at their next soiree , on the 19th of the same month. They apologized for 
asking me to do so at such short notice, and explained it by their having 
been disappointed in other arrangements originally proposed for that 
evening. The interval was barely sufficient for writing such a lecture, and 
executing the diagrams required to illustrate it, even by devoting every 
possible hour to the task; the time was quite inadequate for preparing the 
account with all the care which the occasion deserved. I pointed out this 
objection, but undertook to meet their wishes, if doing so would relieve them 
from any embarrassment. The managers accepted the offer, and courteously 
acknowledged their obligations for the service. 
The London Institution was founded in 1806, to occupy in the east 
of London the same position, as an establishment for the encouragement 
and prosecution of science, which the Royal Institution fills in the west. 
Courses of scientific lectures are regularly given, and at the monthly soirees 
held in the winter season, lectures are delivered on topics of current interest. 
Military subjects had rarely or never before been introduced. 
Having to address unmilitary listeners, I avoided as far as possible all 
military terms, and all reference to points of purely professional importance. 
No other occasion for delivering the lecture was anticipated, and it was 
only by accident that such an occasion arose. 
Major Adams, the instructor in military history at the Royal Military 
College, Sandhurst, had kindly promised to undertake this subject in the 
