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Preface The suggestion of this little compilation originated in a professional intercourse, some months back, with a few intelligent officers of the Volunteer Corps of the city of New York. The want of a work of this kind has long been felt among our officers of Militia generally, as English military literature is quite barren in systematic works on most branches of the military art, especially so on the one known among the military writers of the Continent as La Petite Guerre, or the manner of conducting the operations of small independent bodies of troops; and but few of these officers are able to devote that time to military studies, which their pursuit in a foreign language necessarily demands. In making this compilation, the works in most repute have been carefully consulted, and a selection made from them of what was deemed to be most useful to the class of readers for which it is intended. The object of the writer has been to give a concise but clear view of the essential points in each of the subjects introduced into the work; if he has succeeded in this, he trusts that the very obvious defects of the work will be overlooked. An acknowledgment is here due from the writer to Major-General Sandford, commanding the First Division of the New York State Militia, and to H. K. Oliver, Esq., Adjutant-General of the State of Massachusetts, as well as to the officers generally of the First Division N. Y. S. M., for their kind aid in bringing forward the work. The previous editions of this work having met with very general circulation among the class of our officers for whose use it was originally designed, and the approval of the most distinguished of our General Officers, it has been deemed well to enlarge the work by the addition of a concise statement of the Principles of Strategy and Grand Tactics, with illustrations from several of the most celebrated campaigns of Napoleon. This new matter has been chiefly drawn from the writings of Thiers and Dufour. U. S. MlLITARY ACADEMY Dec. 1st, 1862. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EPOCHS IN THE MILITARY ART FROM THE TIME OF THE GREEKS TO THE PRESENT CHAPTER I. TACTICS CHAPTER II. MANNER OF PLACING AND HANDLING TROOPS CHAPTER III. POSITIONS CHAPTER IV. ADVANCED-GUARDS AND ADVANCED-POSTS CHAPTER V. RECONNAISSANCES CHAPTER VI. DETACHMENTS CHAPTER VII. CONVOYS CHAPTER VIII. SURPRISES AND AMBUSCADES CHAPTER IX. PRINCIPLES OF STRATEGY AND GRAND TACTICS CHAPTER X. ORGANIZATION OF THE U.S. MILITARY FORCES
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