Guibert's General Essay on Tactics

Acknowledgments

List of Diagrams

List of Tables and Figures

On the Translation and Sourcing

Introduction

? Jonathan Abel



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

I Infantry Ordinance, Its Formation; Principles That Must Determine Both



II School of the Soldier, Manual of Arms, [and] Formations of Ranks and Files



III On the March



IV Fire



V Evolutions



VI Doubling the Ranks. Ordinance and Means That Must Serve the Infantry to Fight Cavalry



VII Conversion Movements



VIII Formations in Column



IX Formations en bataille



X Changes of Front



section II: Essay on Cavalry Tactics

Introduction to Essay on Calvalry Tactics



I Advantages of Cavalry; [the] Inconveniences That Render It Too Numerous in Armies



II Cavalry Armor and Equipment



III Speed of Movements, the First and Most Advantageous of the Properties of Cavalry



IV Cavalry Ordinance



V School of the Cavalier



VI Analogy between Cavalry Movements and Those of Infantry



VII Formations en bataille



VIiI Charge Movements



section III: Light Troops

I Origin of Light Troops; Their Too-Great Number, [a] Prejudicial Abuse



II It Is Possible to Create a System of War That Renders Light Troops Little-Necessary



III Line Troops May Advantageously Undertake the Service, or at Least a Part of the Service, Confined to Light Troops



IV On the Constitution of Light Troops



section IV: Essay on Artillery Tactics

I On the Artillery in General, Its Advantages [That Are] Too Elevated by Some and Too Abased by Others, [and] Its Real Utility



II Modern Constitution of Our Artillery [and] Parallel of the Old System with the New



III Inconvenience of Too-Numerous Artillery



IV Artillery Movements



V Artillery Execution



book 2: Grand Tactics

Avant-propos



I Army Marches



II Opening of Marches



III On the Disposition of March Orders



IV Disposition of Troops in March Orders



V Disposition of the Artillery in March Orders



VI On the Disposition of Baggage in Marches



VII On Orders of Battle



VIII Parallel Order



IX Oblique Order



x Formation of Armies; [the] Necessity of Assembling Camps Destined to Be Schools of Grand Tactics in Peacetime



xI Project of a Camp of Instruction; Composition and Division of the Army That One Proposes to Assemble There



xII Maneuvers That Must Be Executed in the Camp of Instruction



xIII Application of the Preceding Maneuvers to Terrain and to Circumstances



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



xV Continuation of Objectives That Must Be Put into Practice in the Camp of Instruction



xVI Rapport between the Science of Fortifications and Tactics, and with War in General



xVII Rapport between Knowledge of Terrain and Tactics



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



Appendix A: The French Army in the Eighteenth Century



Appendix B: Glossary of Terms

Bibliography

Index