Guibert's general essay on tactics / / translated and annotated by Jonathan Abel.

• Superior document: History of warfare ; Volume 137
• VerfasserIn: Guibert, Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de, 1743-1790,
• TeilnehmendeR: Abel, Jonathan, 1985-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: History of warfare ; Volume 137.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"'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...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Copyright page
• Acknowledgments
• Diagrams
• Tables and Figures
• On the Translation and Sourcing
• Introduction / Jonathan Abel
• To My Patrie
• Preliminary Discourse
• Plan of a Work Entitled "France, Political and Military"
• Introduction
• Education of Troops
• 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
• Chapter XIII Application of the Preceding Maneuvers to Terrain and to Circumstances
• Chapter 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
• Chapter XV Continuation of Objectives That Must Be Put into Practice in the Camp of Instruction
• Chapter XVI Rapport between the Science of Fortifications and Tactics, and with War in General
• Chapter XVII Rapport between Knowledge of Terrain and Tactics
• Chapter 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
• Conclusion
• Appendix A The French Army in the Eighteenth Century
• Appendix B Glossary of Terms
• Bibliography
• Index.