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With this advance in organisation and in artillery the French army gradually modified its infantry tactics , so that at the outbreak of the Revolution the army was familiar with the idea that the rigid line formations in vogue in ...
With this advance in organisation and in artillery the French army gradually modified its infantry tactics , so that at the outbreak of the Revolution the army was familiar with the idea that the rigid line formations in vogue in ...
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not fit for the command of armies , however skilful they might be in handling their own army corps . The defeats of Oudinot at Gross Beeren , of Macdonald on the Katsbach , and of Ney at Dennevitz fulfilled Marmont's prophecy within ...
not fit for the command of armies , however skilful they might be in handling their own army corps . The defeats of Oudinot at Gross Beeren , of Macdonald on the Katsbach , and of Ney at Dennevitz fulfilled Marmont's prophecy within ...
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General Steinmetz , the Commander of the First Army , so misunderstood the rôle assigned to his army from the outset that he wrecked Moltke's fundamental plan of enveloping the French army on the Saar early in August by issuing orders ...
General Steinmetz , the Commander of the First Army , so misunderstood the rôle assigned to his army from the outset that he wrecked Moltke's fundamental plan of enveloping the French army on the Saar early in August by issuing orders ...
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1 The Science of War By the late Colonel G F | 1 |
Constable and Co 1908 | 31 |
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