LEADER 04069nam 2200517 450 001 9910810102003321 005 20230124202112.0 010 $a90-04-49821-4 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004498211 035 $a(CKB)4940000000618337 035 $z(OCoLC)1266204985 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004498211 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6794838 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6794838 035 $a(OCoLC)1281968960 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000618337 100 $a20220718d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGuibert's general essay on tactics /$ftranslated and annotated by Jonathan Abel 210 1$aLeiden, The Netherlands ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aHistory of warfare ;$vVolume 137 311 $a90-04-47315-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material --$tCopyright page --$tAcknowledgments --$tDiagrams --$tTables and Figures --$tOn the Translation and Sourcing --$tIntroduction /$rJonathan Abel --$tTo My Patrie --$tPreliminary Discourse --$tPlan of a Work Entitled "France, Political and Military" --$tIntroduction --$tEducation of Troops --$tAvant-propos --$tChapter I Army Marches --$tChapter II Opening of Marches --$tChapter III On the Disposition of March Orders --$tChapter IV Disposition of Troops in March Orders --$tChapter V Disposition of the Artillery in March Orders --$tChapter VI On the Disposition of Baggage in Marches --$tChapter VII On Orders of Battle --$tChapter VIII Parallel Order --$tChapter IX Oblique Order --$tChapter X Formation of Armies; [the] Necessity of Assembling Camps Destined to Be Schools of Grand Tactics in Peacetime --$tChapter XI Project of a Camp of Instruction; Composition and Division of the Army That One Proposes to Assemble There --$tChapter XII Maneuvers That Must Be Executed in the Camp of Instruction --$tChapter XIII Application of the Preceding Maneuvers to Terrain and to Circumstances --$tChapter XIV Application of the Tactics Exposed Above to Defensive Orders of Battle. [The] Necessity of Making This Application Known to the Troops and to the General Officers --$tChapter XV Continuation of Objectives That Must Be Put into Practice in the Camp of Instruction --$tChapter XVI Rapport between the Science of Fortifications and Tactics, and with War in General --$tChapter XVII Rapport between Knowledge of Terrain and Tactics --$tChapter XVIII Rapport between the Science of Subsistence and War, and Particularly with Campaign War. Examination of the Manner by Which We Make Our Armies Subsist --$tConclusion --$tAppendix A The French Army in the Eighteenth Century --$tAppendix B Glossary of Terms --$tBibliography --$tIndex. 330 $a"'The God of War' is near to revealing himself, because we have heard his prophet." So wrote Jean Colin, naming Napoleon the God of War and Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, as his prophet. Guibert was the foremost philosopher of the Military Enlightenment, dedicating his career to systematizing warfare in a single document. The result was his magnum opus, the General Essay on Tactics , which helped to lay the foundation for the success of French armies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It is presented here in English for the first time since the 1780s, with extensive annotation and contextualization. 410 0$aHistory of warfare ; Volume 137. 606 $aTactics$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aMilitary art and science$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aTactics 615 0$aMilitary art and science 676 $a355.42 700 $aGuibert$b Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte$ccomte de,$f1743-1790,$01684858 702 $aAbel$b Jonathan$f1985- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810102003321 996 $aGuibert's general essay on tactics$94056551 997 $aUNINA