Guibert's General Essay on Tactics

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Abel, Jonathan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : BRILL, 2021.
Series:	History of Warfare Ser.
Subjects:	Tactics > Early works to 1800. Military art and science > Early works to 1800.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of 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
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

Guibert's General Essay on Tactics

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