Guibert's General Essay on Tactics

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abel, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2021.
Colección:History of Warfare Ser.
Temas:
Tactics > Early works to 1800.
Military art and science > Early works to 1800.
Tactique militaire > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art et science militaires > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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