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The Art of War written by Baron Henri de Jomini

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Rivoli 179, 205.
Napoleon's order of battle at, 198.

Rocket-batteries, use of, 318.

Rollo, 369.

Roman legions, cause of the ruin of, 63.
nation, cause of the decline of, 60.

Romans, naval expeditions of, 363.

Rome, military institutions of, 61.

Rossbach, 207.

Ruler, a, should be able to arrange plans of operations, 328.

Rules for conducting descents, 251.
for fighting battles scientifically, 203.
for gaining information of enemy's movements, 273, 274.
for offensive or defensive operations, 185.
for passage of rivers, 227.
for passage of a river in retreat, 245.
for pursuit, 242.
for preventing passage of rivers, 228.
for use of artillery in battle, 316-318.
to be observed in selecting tactical positions, 181.

Russian army, firmness of, in retreats, 64.
army, skirmishers in, 293.
base in 1828 and 1829, 84.
cavalry, 314.
expeditions in 1809, 385.
order at Eylau, 295.
retreat in 1812, 233.
system of forming columns, 294.

Russians, early maritime expeditions of, 368, 369.


S.

Saber, when best for cavalry, 308.
when useful, 306.

Saint-Bernard, Napoleon's passage of, 168.

Saint-Cyr at Stockach, 205.

Saxons, expedition of, 367.

Saxony, Napoleon's central lines in, in 1813, 124.

Savoy, Duke of, 22.

Scandinavians, 366.

Science of marches, essential point in, 139.
of marches, includes what, 138.

Sciences, military, study of, 49.

Scipio, 364.

Sea-coast as a base of operations, 83, 84.

Sea, control of, held by England, 173.
control of, important in an invasion, 30.

Secondary lines, 103.

Sebastian of Portugal, descent of, on Morocco, 378.

Sebastopol, 347.

Secondary depots, 262, 263.

Shallow order, 298.
order, infantry, 292.

Shumla, camp of, 155.

Siege, how covered, 153.
of Candia, 380, 381.
of Copenhagen, 384.
of Mantua, 111.

Sieges and active armies, relations between, 112.
duty of staff officers in, 256.
wars of, 146.

Signaling by fires, 276.

Signals by military instruments, 276.
simultaneous shouts as, 277.
system of, 274.

Simple and interior lines, advantage of, 114.
lines of operations, 101.

Simultaneous shouts as signals, 277.

Single line of operations, when preferable, 116.

Sizeboli, capture of, 223.

Skill, superiority in, 42.

Skirmishers, 359, 360.

Skirmishing-order, 292.

Small detachments, how useful, 224.

Smolensk, Napoleon's retreat from, 235.

Southern Germany, valley of the Danube the strategic key of, 162.

Sovereign as commander, 52.

Spain adapted to parallel retreats, 240.
and Portugal, Wellington's tactics in, 358.
invasions of, 23.
war in, in 1823, 27.

Spanish Armada, 249, 378, 379.
capture of Vera Cruz by, 390.
descent on Algiers, 382.
descent on Morocco in 1859, 389.

Spies, 269.
best course for, 270.
difficulties in their way, 270.
use of, neglected in many modern armies, 270.
when especially useful, 270.

Squares in echelons, 297.
infantry, 294, 296, 297.
in two ranks, 294.

Staff, chief of, 253,
chief of, how selected, 57.
general, usefulness of, 57.
officers and general must act in concert, 257.
officers, duties of, should be defined, 253.
officers, duty of, in offensive war, 258.
officers should inspect materiel, 257.
officers, summary of duties of, 254-256.

Standing armies, effect of, on distant invasions, 171.

State, how rendered secure, 138.

Statesmanship, relation of, to war, 14.

Statesmen, duty of, in offensive war, 17.

Statistics, military, 39.

St. Domingo, expedition to, in 1802, 384.

Stockach, 179, 205.
defeat of the French at, 111.

Strategic defense in mountainous countries, 164.

Stollhofen, lines of, 152.

Strategical and tactical lines of defense, 95.

Strategic combinations, 72.
combinations, when better than tactical, 179.
coup-d'oeil, 337-345.
field of 1806, 113.
front and line of defense may coincide, 92.
front, change of, 94.
front, double, 95.
front not to be too extended, 98.
front of Napoleon in his march on Eylau, 94.
fronts, 92.
fronts, maxims on, 98.
lines, 128, 129.
lines and points, 85.
lines at Waterloo, 130.
lines of maneuvers, 128.
lines of Napoleon in 1796, 130, 131.
operations in mountains, 160.
operations, maxims on, 90.
point, Leipsic as a, 87.
Lyons as a, 87.
point of a battle-field, when important, 187.
points, capitals as, 87.
position, essential conditions for, 99.
positions, 66, 97, 330, 331.
positions of mountainous countries, 76.
positions of Napoleon, 97.
reserves, 67, 133.
square for camps, 99.

Strategy, 322, 337.
advantage of the offensive in, 184.
and the commissariat, 141.
battles of Ulm and Jena won by, 198.
connection of intrenched camps with, 154.
connection of tetes de ponts with, 154.
definition of, 66.
directs movements, tactics executes them, 175.
errors in, 91.
how it should be studied, 337.
illustration of, by operations of 1793, 331-333.
illustrations of, 339-341.
in what it consists, 328.
objective points in, how determined, 88.
one great end of, 177.
points embraced by, 68.
political objective points subordinate to, 91.
principles of, 331.
principles of, always the same, 17.
province of, 178.
relation of fortresses to, 148, 150.
science of marches in, 138.
system of, developed in 1800, 137.
the art of, 69.

Strong position, essentials for a, 181.

Study of strategy, how made profitable, 337.

Successful retreat, how to insure, 242, 243.

Surprises of armies, 209.
difficulty of, 209.

Suwaroff, 55, 170.

Suwaroff's expedition in Switzerland, 166.

Supplies, depots of, 141, 143.

Suza, position of Swiss and Italians at, 168.

Svatoslav, expedition of, 308.

Sweyn, 369, 370.

Switzerland, invasion of, by French Directory, 162.
Massena in, in 1799, 165.
Suwaroff in, 166.
tactical defense of, 169.

Syria, French expedition to, 390.

System, concentric or eccentric, 126.
of corps, 279.
of divisions, 278.
of marches, 135.
of marches, effects of, 138.
of marches, includes what, 138.
of marches, relation of, to commissariat, 141.
of marches the result of circumstances, 135.
of operations, 72.
of operations, how to be judged, 125.
of signals, 274.
of strategy developed in 1800, 137.
of wars, change of, 135.
of wars of position, 135.

Systems modified by forms of government, 45.


T.

Tactical combinations, guiding principle in, 178.
defense of Switzerland, 169.
operations, disadvantages of the offensive in, 184.
position, protection of flanks in, 182.

Tactical positions, 181.
positions, rules for selecting, 181.

Tactics, 322.
executes movements, strategy directs them, 175.
grand, 69, 70.
of battles, great difficulty of, 196.
of Wellington in Spain and Portugal, 358.

Tagliamento, Napoleon's order at, 295.

Taroutin, surprise of Murat at, 209.

Telegraphs, portable, 275.

Temporary bases, 84.
bases, when necessary, 132.

Tetes de ponts, 160.
connection of, with strategy, 154.
how differ from intrenched camps, 160.

Theater of operations, 74, 75.
of operations between the Rhine and North Sea, 338-340.
of operations, how composed, 75.
of operations, how divided, 71.
of operations in the French Revolution, 104.
of war, border of the, 80, 81.
of war, decisive points of the, 85.
of war, definition of, 74.

Theories, difficulty of applying, in war, 269.
use of, in war, 323.

Thirty Years' War, 25.

Three-rank formation of infantry, 291, 293.

Topographical and statistical reconnoissances, 268.

Torgau, battle of, 205.

Torres-Vedras, camp of, 155.
intrenched camp at, 83.

Towers, masonry, 158.
of Coblentz, 159.
of Linz, 158.

Transversal maneuvers, 163.
marches in mountainous countries, 163.

Trees, clumps of, should be occupied, 303.

Troops, distribution of, in line of battle, 287.
employment of, 328.

Trot, when best for cavalry charge, 306, 307.

Turenne's surprise of the Austrian cantonments, 246.

Turin, battle of, 53.
intrenched camp at, 211.
lines of, 153, 213.

Turkey, invasion of, 23.

Turkish war of 1828 and 1829, 84.
wars, squares in, 296, 297.

Turks, cavalry charge of, 307.
naval expeditions of, 377, 378, 380.

Turning maneuvers, 179, 201, 206.
maneuver, rules for, 204.

Two corps, one behind the other, 285.

Two-rank formation, 346.

Two wars at once, danger of, 36.


U.

Ulm, battle of, 53.
battle of, won by strategy, 198.
camp of, 154.
maneuvers at, 90.

Uncertainty regarding battles, elements of, 197.

Unexpected battles, advanced guard in, 208.
meeting of two armies, 207.

United States, capture of Vera Cruz by, 387.
English expeditions against, in 1814 and 1815, 385, 386.
expedition to Port Royal, 390.

Use of spies neglected in many modern armies, 272.
of the three arms combined, 203.


V.

Vandals, 366.

Vandamme's disaster at Culm, lesson of, 221.

Venice, 379, 380.

Vera Cruz captured by the Spaniards, 390.
taken by the French, 386.
taken by the United States, 387.

Vessels, Roman, 363.
Scandinavian, 366.

Victories, French, of 1793, why indecisive, 333.

Victory, assailant's best means of, 202.
on what it depends, 309, 310.
when it may be expected, 360.

Villages, importance of, on front of a position, 303.

Villars's infantry, panic among, 64.

Vistula, passage of, by Paskevitch, 120.


W.

Wagram, 195, 206, 266, 317, 343, 350.
Macdonald's column at, 295, 296.
Napoleon's artillery at, 289, 316.
Napoleon's order of battle at, 198.
panic at, 64.

War an art, 321.
border of the theater of, 80, 81.
character of, from Middle Ages to French Revolution, 135.
circumstances which influence result of, 321.
council of, at seat of government, 59.
councils of, 58.
decisive points of the theater of, 85.
defensive-offensive, 74.
definition of the art of, 13.
fundamental principle of, 66, 70.
governments should not be unprepared for, 46.
how to be conducted, 15.
influence of cavalry in a, 313, 314.
influence of improvements in fire-arms on, 347, 355, 359.
manner of applying general principle of, 175.
materiel of, 49.
maxims of fundamental principles of, 70.
nature and extent of, how influenced, 14.
not an exact science, 344, 350.
objects of, 14.
of the Crimea, 387.
offensive and defensive, definition of, 72.
offensive, duty of staff officers in, 258.
operations of, how directed, 150.
principal parts of the art of, 66.
relation of statesmanship to, 14.
theater of, definition, 74.
use of theories in, 323.

Warsaw, intrenchments at, 211.

Wars, aggressive, for conquest, 22.
change of system of, 135.
civil, 35.
defensive politically, offensive militarily, 17.
double, 36.
for conquest, instances of, 22.
intestine, 35.
natural character of, in mountainous countries, 167.
national, definition of, 29.
national, difficulties of conquest in, 31-34.
national, effect of nature of the country on, 30.
national, how prevented, 33, 34.
national, invasion difficult in, 144.
offensive, how conducted, 16.
offensive, to reclaim rights, 16.
of expediency, 18.
kinds of, 18.
of extermination, 34.
of intervention, 19.
of intervention, essentials in wars of, 21.
of intervention, military chances in, 20.
of invasion, when advantageous, 17.
of opinion, 25.
of opinion, character of, 26.
of opinion, instances of, 25.
of opinion, military precepts for, 27.
of position, system of, 135.
of religion, 35.
of sieges, 146.
political, 26.
political part of, how modified, 17.
Punic, 363, 364.
Turkish, squares in, 296, 297.
when most just, 16.
with or without allies, 18.

Waterloo, 127, 183, 206, 295, 303-306, 354.
Bluecher at, 130.
campaign of, 129, 130.
English squares at, 294
formations at, 351.
French at, 196.
Napoleon's order of battle at, 198.
Ney at, 182,183.
strategic lines at, 130.
Wellington's position at, 181, 388.

Wellington, 181, 185, 353, 357, 358, 381, 382, 384, 385.
and Bluecher at Waterloo, 127, 130.
at Salamanca, 206.
at Torres-Vedras, 83.
defensive-offensive operations of, 74.

Wellington's position at Waterloo, 181.

Weyrother, 205, 206.

William the Conqueror, 370, 371.

Winkelried, column of, 194.

Winter campaigns, 68.
quarters, countries adapted to, 246.
quarters, when dangerous, 247.
quarters, when strategic, 97.

Woods, importance of possession of, 303.

Wurmser at Mantua, 156.
eccentric retreat of, in 1796, 238.
error of, 111.


X.

Xerxes, 173.
army of, 362.


Z.

Zama, battle of, 364.

Zimisces, 368.

Zone of operations, 66, 100, 338.
of operations, how to select, 329.
of operations in 1813, 101.

Zones of operations in the French Revolution, 105.

Zurich, defeat of the allies at, 112.