6ARTICLE I.: Offensive Wars to Reclaim Rights.
73Fig. 12.
7ARTICLE II.: Of Wars Defensive Politically, and Offensive in a Military Point of View.
74Fig. 12 bis.
8ARTICLE III.: Wars of Expediency.
75Fig. 13.
9ARTICLE IV.: Of Wars with or without Allies.
76Fig. 14.
10ARTICLE V.: Wars of Intervention.
77Fig. 15.
11ARTICLE VI.: Aggressive Wars for Conquest and other Reasons.
78Fig. 16.
12ARTICLE VII.: Wars of Opinion.
79ARTICLE XXXII.: Turning Maneuvers, and too extended Movement in Battles.
13ARTICLE VIII.: National Wars.
80ARTICLE XXXIII.: Unexpected Meeting of Two Armies on the March.
14ARTICLE IX.: Civil Wars, and Wars of Religion.
81ARTICLE XXXIV.: Of Surprises of Armies.
15ARTICLE X.: Double Wars, and the Danger of Undertaking Two Wars at Once.
82ARTICLE XXXV.
16CHAPTER II.: MILITARY POLICY.
83Of the Attack by Main Force of Fortified Places, Intrenched Camps or Lines.—Of Coups de Main in General.
17ARTICLE XI.: Military Statistics and Geography.
84COUPS DE MAIN.
18ARTICLE XII.: Other Causes which exercise an Influence upon the Success of a War.
85CHAPTER V.: OF SEVERAL MIXED OPERATIONS, WHICH ARE IN CHARACTER PARTLY STRATEGICAL AND PARTLY TACTICAL.
19ARTICLE XIII.: Military Institutions.
86ARTICLE XXXVI.: Of Diversions and Great Detachments.
20ARTICLE XIV.: The Command of Armies, and the Chief Control over Operations.
87ARTICLE XXXVII.: Passage of Rivers and Other Streams.
21ARTICLE XV.: The Military Spirit of Nations, and the Morale of Armies.
88ARTICLE XXXVIII.: Retreats and Pursuits.
22CHAPTER III.
89ARTICLE XXXIX.: Of Cantonments, either when on the March, or when established in Winter Quarters.
23STRATEGY.
90ARTICLE XL.: Descents.
24DEFINITION OF STRATEGY AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF WAR.
91CHAPTER VI.: LOGISTICS; OR, THE PRACTICAL ART OF MOVING ARMIES.
25THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF WAR.
92ARTICLE XLI.: A few Remarks on Logistics in General.
26OF STRATEGIC COMBINATIONS.
93ARTICLE XLII.: Of Reconnoissances and other Means of gaining Correct Information of the Movements of the Enemy.
27ARTICLE XVI.: Of the System of Operations.
94CHAPTER VII.: OF THE FORMATION OF TROOPS FOR BATTLE, AND THE SEPARATE OR COMBINED USE OF THE THREE ARMS.
28ARTICLE XVII.: Of the Theater of Operations.
95ARTICLE XLIII.
29ARTICLE XVIII.
96Posting Troops in Line of Battle.
30Bases of Operations.
97Different Formations of Lines of Battle for Two Corps of Infantry.
31Fig. 1.
98Fig. 17.
32Fig. 2.
99Fig. 18.
33ARTICLE XIX.
100Fig. 19.
34Strategic lines and Points, Decisive Points of the Theater of War, and Objective Points of Operations.
101Fig. 20.
35OBJECTIVE POINTS.
102Fig. 21.
36ARTICLE XX.
103Fig. 22.
37Fronts of Operations, Strategic Fronts, Lines of Defense, and Strategic Positions.
104Formation of Two Corps of Three Divisions of Two Brigades each.
38FRONTS OF OPERATIONS AND STRATEGIC FRONTS.
105Fig. 23.
39LINES OF DEFENSE.
106Fig. 24.
40STRATEGIC POSITIONS.
107Fig. 25.
41ARTICLE XXI.
108Two Corps of Three Divisions of Three Brigades each.
42Zones and Lines of Operations.
109Fig. 26.
43OBSERVATIONS UPON THE LINES OF OPERATIONS IN THE WARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
110Fig. 27.
44Fig. 3.
111Fig. 28.
45THE STRATIGIC FIELD OF 1806.: To illustrate Maxim 3 on the direction of Lines of Operations.
112ARTICLE XLIV.
46MAXIMS ON LINES OF OPERATIONS.
113Formation and Employment of Infantry.
47Fig. 4.
114FIG. 29. [46] Deployed in order of two lines.
48OBSERVATIONS UPON INTERIOR LINES—WHAT HAS BEEN SAID AGAINST THEM.
115Fig. 30. Twelve battalions in columns of attack in two lines, with skirmishers in the intervals.
49ARTICLE XXII.: Strategic Lines.
116Fig. 31.
50ARTICLE XXIII.
117Fig. 32.
51Means of protecting a Line of Operations by Temporary Bases or Strategic Reserves.
118Fig. 33.
52STRATEGIC RESERVES.
119Fig. 34.
53ARTICLE XXIV.: The Old System of Wars of Position and the Modern System of Marches.
120Fig. 35. Division in battalion squares.
54ARTICLE XXV.: Depots of Supplies, and their Relation to Marches.
121Fig. 36. The same division in long battalion squares.
55ARTICLE XXVI.
122Fig. 37. Squared of regiments of three battalions.
56The Defense of Frontiers by Forts and Intrenched Lines.—Wars of Sieges.
123ARTICLE XLV.
57INTRENCHED LINES.
124Cavalry.
58ARTICLE XXVII.
125Fig. 38. Cavalry division of five regiments. Cavalry deployed should be in checkered order rather than in full lines.
59The Connection of Intrenched Camps and Têtes de Ponts with Strategy.
126ARTICLE XLVI.: Employment of Artillery.
60TÊTES DE PONTS.
127ARTICLE XLVII.: Of the Combined Use of the Three Arms.
61ARTICLE XXVIII.: Strategic Operations in Mountains.
128CONCLUSION.
62ARTICLE XXIX.: Grand Invasions and Distant Expeditions.
129SUPPLEMENT
63EPITOME OF STRATEGY
130TO THE
64CHAPTER IV.: GRAND TACTICS AND BATTLES.
131SUMMARY OF THE ART OF WAR.
65ARTICLE XXX.: Positions and Defensive Battles.
132SKETCH OF THE PRINCIPAL MARITIME EXPEDITIONS.
66ARTICLE XXXI.
133INDEX: Map of portions of Germany, Switzerland & Italy.
67Offensive Battles, and Different Orders of Battle.
