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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]
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.
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 ...
Jomini estimated that the French suffered 3,000 casualties while the Saxo-Prussians lost 1,300. [26] A second authority asserted that the French lost 1,300 killed and wounded plus an additional 700 men, two guns and one color captured, adding that Brunswick's army sustained losses of 44 officers and 785 soldiers killed and wounded, a total of ...
The Battle of Glarus (also uncollectively the Combat of Näfels/Netstal [7]), was a battle fought on October 1, 1799. [b] The battle ended the Austro-Russian invasion of the Helvetic Republic and was the last campaign which involved the Russian undefeated general Alexander Suvorov. [8]
The two most significant students of his work were Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian with a background in philosophy, and Antoine-Henri Jomini, who had been one of Napoleon's staff officers. Peninsular War