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Antoine-Henri Jomini (French:; 6 March 1779 – 22 March 1869) [1] was a Swiss military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war.
Antoine-Henri Jomini. Summary of the Art of War: the Principal Combinations of Strategy, Grand Tactics, and Military Politics (French: Précis de l’Art de la Guerre: Des Principales Cominaisons de la Stratégie, de la Grande Tactique et de la Politique) is a military treatise by Antoine-Henri Jomini, originally published as a complete work in 1838. [1]
The traditional narrative of French cavalry storming and capturing the ships at Den Helder is primarily based on French sources, which all copy the story from each other, the main source for the story being the work of Antoine-Henri Jomini's work Histoire critique et militaire des campagnes de la Revolution. It is, however, unclear what source ...
Henry Lloyd proffered his version of "Rules" for war in 1781 as well as his "Axioms" for war in 1781. Then in 1805, Antoine-Henri Jomini published his "Maxims" for war version 1, "Didactic Resume" and "Maxims" for war version 2. Carl von Clausewitz wrote his version in 1812 building on the work of earlier writers.
The principles of war. Auguste Frédéric Lendy. [53] 1855. Considerations on tactics and strategy. George Twemlow. [54] 1858. Elementary history of the progress of the Art of War. James John Graham. [55] 1860. Elements of Military Art and Science. Henry Wager Halleck. [56] 1862. The Art of War. Antoine Henri baron of Jomini. [57] In French ...
It was in this sense that Antoine-Henri Jomini referred to the term in his Summary of the Art of War (1838). In the English translation, the word became "logistics". [4] In 1888, Charles C. Rogers created a course on naval logistics at the Naval War College.
The British did utilise the rifle such as the Baker Pattern 1800 Infantry rifle equipping some units, most notably with the creation of an entire elite rifle regiment, the 95th Regiment (Rifles). One success of the British 95th Rifles was picking off French general Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais in 1809 during the Peninsular War.
Head of the War Department: Lützen, Bautzen: Yes Andrei Arakcheyev: 1772-1814: Major General (1799) Chief of artillery of the 3rd Reserve Army: No Ivan Andreyevich Argamakov: 1775-1820: Colonel (1807), Major General (1813) Chief of Zhytomyr dragoon regiment: Kaidanov, Minsk, Borisov, Bautzen, Leipzig, Hamburg: Yes Ivan Vasilievich Argamakov ...