The science of war ; a collection of essays and lectures, 1892-1903 / by the late Colonel G.F.R. Henderson ... Ed. by Captain Neill Malcolm ... with a memoir of the author, by Field Marshal Earl Roberts ... With a portrait and 4 maps.
| Author/creator |
Henderson, G. F. R. (George Francis Robert), 1854-1903 |
| Other author/creator | Malcolm, Neill, Sir, 1869- , editor. |
| Other author/creator | Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts 1st, earl, 1832-1914. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co., 1916. |
| Description | xxxviii, 442 pages : frontispiece (portrait) 4 folded maps ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Memoir, by Field-Marshall Earl Roberts.--War.--Strategy.--The tactical employment of cavalry.--Tactics of the three arms combined.--Notes on Wellington.--Military criticism and modern tactics.--Lessons from the past for the present.--Battles and leaders of the civil war.--The American civil war.--The battle of Gettysburg.--The campaign in the Wilderness of Virginia, 1864.--The training of infantry for attack.--Foreign criticism.--The British army. |
| General note | Republished from the Encyclopaedia britannica (chapters I-IV);a journal of the Royal united service institution and the United service magazine (chapters VI, VII, and XII); Edinburgh review (chapter VIII); and Count Sternberg's book, My experiences of the Boer war (chapter XIII) cf. Pref. |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | U17 .H5 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |