To the honourable Ignace Louis de Loiollac, Brigadier-General of the Army of Alsace,
I am in receipt of your proposed strategy. If you would allow, I would propose some alterations, or at the very least some considerations for the both of us to bear. While an expedition against Breisach would certainly secure our flank, I fear that if we were to jointly commit to a seizure of the city, we would be abandoning Northern France to the Austrians, and, ignorant as we are of the strength of the garrison and fortifications at Breisach, an extended siege could be the only result of our considered stratagem. I would thus propose that, in regards to Breisach, only a modest advance force should be sent, or perhaps preferably, a modest garrison stationed in the fort at Neuf-Brisach, which would protect our Alsatian flank just as ably as her German counterpart on the other bank of the Rhine.
The rest of your strategy, is, however, sound. While this advance force secures Breisach or Neuf-Brisach, the rest of our combined host can march on Longwy to expel the Austrians. Then, depending on events in the west, particularly if the Army of the Rhine is able to recover from its defeat and repel the Austrians from Paris, then we may proceed with an invasion of the Austrian Netherlands.
Regardless of the details of our employed strategy, I shall be glad to fight by your side in the defence of the Fatherland. Until our armies are joined,
I remain,
Brigadier-General of the Reserve Army