Dennis Hart Mahan
Published: 2017-07-16
Total Pages: 344
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Excerpt from Advanced-Guard, Out-Post, and Detachment Service of Troops: With the Essential Principles of Strategy, and Grand Tactics for the Use of Officers of the Militia and VolunteersThe previous editions of this work having met With very general circulation among the class of our oth cers for whose use it was originally designed, and the approval of the most distinguished of our General Otficers, it has been deemed well to enlarge the work by the addition of a concise statement of the pm-nci pm 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.