BY

AND

OF

DEFINITION OF THE ART OF WAR.

STATESMANSHIP IN ITS RELATION TO WAR.

Offensive Wars to Reclaim Rights.

Of Wars Defensive Politically, and Offensive in a Military Point of View.

Wars of Expediency.

Of Wars with or without Allies.

Wars of Intervention.

Aggressive Wars for Conquest and other Reasons.

Wars of Opinion.

National Wars.

Civil Wars, and Wars of Religion.

Double Wars, and the Danger of Undertaking Two Wars at Once.

MILITARY POLICY.

Military Statistics and Geography.

Other Causes which exercise an Influence upon the Success of a War.

Military Institutions.

The Command of Armies, and the Chief Control over Operations.

The Military Spirit of Nations, and the Morale of Armies.

STRATEGY.

DEFINITION OF STRATEGY AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF WAR.

THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF WAR.

Of the System of Operations.

Of the Theater of Operations.

Bases of Operations.

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Fig. 2.

Strategic lines and Points, Decisive Points of the Theater of War, and Objective Points of Operations.

OBJECTIVE POINTS.

Fronts of Operations, Strategic Fronts, Lines of Defense, and Strategic Positions.

FRONTS OF OPERATIONS AND STRATEGIC FRONTS.

LINES OF DEFENSE.

STRATEGIC POSITIONS.

Zones and Lines of Operations.

OBSERVATIONS UPON THE LINES OF OPERATIONS IN THE WARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

Fig. 3.

THE STRATIGIC FIELD OF 1806.

To illustrate Maxim 3 on the direction of Lines of Operations.

MAXIMS ON LINES OF OPERATIONS.

Fig. 4.

OBSERVATIONS UPON INTERIOR LINES—WHAT HAS BEEN SAID AGAINST THEM.

Strategic Lines.

Means of protecting a Line of Operations by Temporary Bases or Strategic Reserves.

STRATEGIC RESERVES.

The Old System of Wars of Position and the Modern System of Marches.

Depots of Supplies, and their Relation to Marches.

The Defense of Frontiers by Forts and Intrenched Lines.—Wars of Sieges.

INTRENCHED LINES.

The Connection of Intrenched Camps and Têtes de Ponts with Strategy.

TÊTES DE PONTS.

Strategic Operations in Mountains.

Grand Invasions and Distant Expeditions.

GRAND TACTICS AND BATTLES.

Positions and Defensive Battles.

Offensive Battles, and Different Orders of Battle.

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Turning Maneuvers, and too extended Movement in Battles.

Unexpected Meeting of Two Armies on the March.

Of Surprises of Armies.

Of the Attack by Main Force of Fortified Places, Intrenched Camps or Lines.—Of Coups de Main in General.

COUPS DE MAIN.

OF SEVERAL MIXED OPERATIONS, WHICH ARE IN CHARACTER PARTLY STRATEGICAL AND PARTLY TACTICAL.

Of Diversions and Great Detachments.

Passage of Rivers and Other Streams.

Retreats and Pursuits.

Of Cantonments, either when on the March, or when established in Winter Quarters.

Descents.

LOGISTICS; OR, THE PRACTICAL ART OF MOVING ARMIES.

A few Remarks on Logistics in General.

Of Reconnoissances and other Means of gaining Correct Information of the Movements of the Enemy.

OF THE FORMATION OF TROOPS FOR BATTLE, AND THE SEPARATE OR COMBINED USE OF THE THREE ARMS.

Posting Troops in Line of Battle.

Different Formations of Lines of Battle for Two Corps of Infantry.

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Formation of Two Corps of Three Divisions of Two Brigades each.

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Two Corps of Three Divisions of Three Brigades each.

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Formation and Employment of Infantry.

FIG. 29. [46] Deployed in order of two lines.

Fig. 30. Twelve battalions in columns of attack in two lines, with skirmishers in the intervals.

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Fig. 35. Division in battalion squares.

Fig. 36. The same division in long battalion squares.

Fig. 37. Squared of regiments of three battalions.

Cavalry.

Fig. 38. Cavalry division of five regiments. Cavalry deployed should be in checkered order rather than in full lines.

Employment of Artillery.

Of the Combined Use of the Three Arms.

TO THE

SUMMARY OF THE ART OF WAR.

UPON

THE MEANS OF ACQUIRING A GOOD STRATEGIC COUP-D'OEIL.

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Fig. 40.

TO THE

SUMMARY OF THE ART OF WAR.

ON THE FORMATION OF TROOPS FOR BATTLE.

Map of portions of Germany, Switzerland & Italy.