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Works by Antoine-Henri Jomini at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about Antoine-Henri Jomini at the Internet Archive (in English) Notice of the Present Theory of War, and of Its Utility (in French) Monographie du général Jomini; The Influence of Clausewitz on Jomini's Le Précis de l'Art de la Guerre "Jomini at the Time of the Helvetic Republic ...
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]
Henri, Duke of Rohan established his "Guides" for war in 1644. Marquis de Silva presented his "Principles" for war in 1778. 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 ...
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. One notable exception to Napoleon's strategy of annihilation and a precursor to trench warfare were the Lines of Torres Vedras during the Peninsular War ...
Although comparatively little is known of his life, Ardant du Picq's small corpus of writings has earned him a place in the ranks of great military theorists. Before du Picq began his famous manuscripts, the French military relied heavily upon the writings of former Chief of Staff Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini when it came to
Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss military officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars. Jomini was also a military writer and was self-taught in military strategy . [ 99 ]
Mahan was largely responsible for disseminating ideas of European military theorists throughout the United States, particularly Antoine-Henri Jomini, and his lectures and writings were instrumental to U.S. actions in every conflict from the Mexican–American War and American Civil War to World War I and World War II. [7]
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 ...