Military Instruction From the Late King of Prussia to His Generals

Military Instruction From the Late King of Prussia to His Generals

Author: Frederick Ii

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780331747010

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Excerpt from Military Instruction From the Late King of Prussia to His Generals: Illustrated With Plates; To Which Is Added, by the Same Author, Particular Instruction to the Officers of His Army, and Especially Those of the Cavalry IT is to your kindness that I owe my introduction to a profession whose useful and honorable practice the followmg sheets are intended to illustrate and improve. The same disposition inclined you to commend my present humble undertaking, and to sanction it with the honor of your name. Such indulgence afl'ords me the highest gratification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.


Military Experience in the Age of Reason

Military Experience in the Age of Reason

Author: Christopher Duffy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-12-20

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1135794588

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First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.