Guibert's General Essay on Tactics (History of Warfare, 137)

Contents
Acknowledgments
Diagrams
Tables and Figures
On the Translation and Sourcing
Introduction
Book 1 Elementary Tactics
	To My Patrie
	Preliminary Discourse
	Plan of a Work Entitled “France, Political and Military”
	Introduction
	Education of Troops
Section I Infantry Tactics
	Chapter I Infantry Ordinance, Its Formation; Principles That Must Determine Both
	Chapter II School of the Soldier, Manual of Arms, [and] Formations of Ranks and Files
	Chapter III On the March
	Chapter IV Fire
	Chapter V Evolutions
	Chapter VI Doubling the Ranks. Ordinance and Means That Must Serve the Infantry to Fight Cavalry
	Chapter VII Conversion Movements
	Chapter VIII Formations in Column
	Chapter IX Formations en bataille
	Chapter X Changes of Front
Section II Essay on Cavalry Tactics
	Introduction to Essay on Cavalry Tactics
	Chapter I Advantages of Cavalry; [the] Inconveniences That Render It Too Numerous in Armies
	Chapter II Cavalry Armor and Equipment
	Chapter III Speed of Movements, the First and Most Advantageous of the Properties of Cavalry
	Chapter IV Cavalry Ordinance
	Chapter V School of the Cavalier
	Chapter VI Analogy between Cavalry Movements and Those of Infantry
	Chapter VII Formations en bataille
	Chapter VIII Charge Movements
	Conclusion
Section III Light Troops
	Chapter I Origin of Light Troops; Their Too-Great Number, [a] Prejudicial Abuse
	Chapter II It Is Possible to Create a System of War That Renders Light Troops Little-Necessary
	Chapter III Line Troops May Advantageously Undertake the Service, or at Least a Part of the Service, Confined to Light Troops
	Chapter IV On the Constitution of Light Troops
Section IV Essay on Artillery Tactics
	Chapter I On the Artillery in General, Its Advantages [That Are] Too Elevated by Some and Too Abased by Others, [and] Its Real Utility
	Chapter II Modern Constitution of Our Artillery [and] Parallel of the Old System with the New
	Chapter III Inconvenience of Too-Numerous Artillery
	Chapter IV Artillery Movements
	Chapter V Artillery Execution
Book 2 Grand Tactics
	Avant-propos
	Chapter I Army Marches
	Chapter II Opening of Marches
	Chapter III On the Disposition of March Orders
	Chapter IV Disposition of Troops in March Orders
	Chapter V Disposition of the Artillery in March Orders
	Chapter VI On the Disposition of Baggage in Marches
	Chapter VII On Orders of Battle
	Chapter VIII Parallel Order
	Chapter IX Oblique Order
	Chapter X Formation of Armies; [the] Necessity of Assembling Camps Destined to Be Schools of Grand Tactics in Peacetime
	Chapter XI Project of a Camp of Instruction; Composition and Division of the Army That One Proposes to Assemble There
	Chapter XII Maneuvers That Must Be Executed in the Camp of Instruction
	Chapter XIII Application of the Preceding Maneuvers to Terrain and to Circumstances
	Chapter XIV Application of the Tactics Exposed Above to Defensive Orders of Battle. [The] Necessity of Making This Application Known to the Troops and to the General Officers
	Chapter XV Continuation of Objectives That Must Be Put into Practice in the Camp of Instruction
	Chapter XVI Rapport between the Science of Fortifications and Tactics, and with War in General
	Chapter XVII Rapport between Knowledge of Terrain and Tactics
	Chapter XVIII Rapport between the Science of Subsistence and War, and Particularly with Campaign War. Examination of the Manner by Which We Make
 Our Armies Subsist
	Conclusion
Appendix A The French Army in the Eighteenth Century
Appendix B Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index