| Description |
1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Series |
History of Warfare Ser |
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History of Warfare Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Diagrams -- Tables and Figures -- On the Translation and Sourcing -- Introduction -- Book 1 Elementary Tactics -- To My Patrie -- Preliminary Discourse -- Plan of a Work Entitled "France, Political and Military" -- Introduction -- Education of Troops -- Section I Infantry Tactics -- Chapter I Infantry Ordinance, Its Formation -- Principles That Must Determine Both -- Chapter II School of the Soldier, Manual of Arms, [and] Formations of Ranks and Files -- Chapter III On the March -- Chapter IV Fire -- Chapter V Evolutions |
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Chapter VI Doubling the Ranks. Ordinance and Means That Must Serve the Infantry to Fight Cavalry -- Chapter VII Conversion Movements -- Chapter VIII Formations in Column -- Chapter IX Formations en bataille -- Chapter X Changes of Front -- Section II Essay on Cavalry Tactics -- Introduction to Essay on Cavalry Tactics -- Chapter I Advantages of Cavalry -- [the] Inconveniences That Render It Too Numerous in Armies -- Chapter II Cavalry Armor and Equipment -- Chapter III Speed of Movements, the First and Most Advantageous of the Properties of Cavalry -- Chapter IV Cavalry Ordinance |
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Chapter V School of the Cavalier -- Chapter VI Analogy between Cavalry Movements and Those of Infantry -- Chapter VII Formations en bataille -- Chapter VIII Charge Movements -- Conclusion -- Section III Light Troops -- Chapter I Origin of Light Troops -- Their Too-Great Number, [a] Prejudicial Abuse -- Chapter II It Is Possible to Create a System of War That Renders Light Troops Little-Necessary -- Chapter III Line Troops May Advantageously Undertake the Service, or at Least a Part of the Service, Confined to Light Troops -- Chapter IV On the Constitution of Light Troops |
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Section IV Essay on Artillery Tactics -- Chapter I On the Artillery in General, Its Advantages [That Are] Too Elevated by Some and Too Abased by Others, [and] Its Real Utility -- Chapter II Modern Constitution of Our Artillery [and] Parallel of the Old System with the New -- Chapter III Inconvenience of Too-Numerous Artillery -- Chapter IV Artillery Movements -- Chapter V Artillery Execution -- Book 2 Grand Tactics -- Avant-propos -- Chapter I Army Marches -- Chapter II Opening of Marches -- Chapter III On the Disposition of March Orders -- Chapter IV Disposition of Troops in March Orders |
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Chapter V Disposition of the Artillery in March Orders -- Chapter VI On the Disposition of Baggage in Marches -- Chapter VII On Orders of Battle -- Chapter VIII Parallel Order -- Chapter IX Oblique Order -- Chapter X Formation of Armies -- [the] Necessity of Assembling Camps Destined to Be Schools of Grand Tactics in Peacetime -- Chapter XI Project of a Camp of Instruction -- Composition and Division of the Army That One Proposes to Assemble There -- Chapter XII Maneuvers That Must Be Executed in the Camp of Instruction |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter XIII Application of the Preceding Maneuvers to Terrain and to Circumstances |
| Subject |
Tactics -- Early works to 1800
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Military art and science -- Early works to 1800
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004498211 |
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9004498214 |
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