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Guyard. _Instruction de l'infanterie,_ &c. Schauenbourg. _Traite de tactique._ Ternay et Koch. _Mecanism des manoeuvres de guerre de l'infanterie polonaise._ Vroniecki. _Traite sur l'infanterie legere._ Beurmann. _English Cavalry Regulations._ _Ordonnance_ (French) _sur l'exercice et les evolutions de la cavalerie._ _Les troupes a cheval de France,_ &c. De Bourge. _Avant-postes de cavalerie legere._ Brack. The author served with distinction under Lassale, Colbert, Maison, Pujol, and Excelmans. _Reflexions sur l'emploi de la cavalerie,_ &c. Caraman. _Observations sur l'ordonnance, &c., de la cavalerie._ Dejean. _Tactique de la cavalerie._ Itier. _Elements de tactique pour la cavalerie,_ par Mottin de la Balme. A work of rare merit. _De l'emploi de la cavalerie a la guerre._ Schauenbourg. _Remarques sur la cavalerie._ Warnery. This work has long enjoyed a high reputation among the cavalry officers of the European services. The Paris edition is enriched with notes by a French general officer. _Nachrichten und Betrachtungen ueber die Thaten und Schicksale der Reiterei,_ &c. This work discusses the operations of cavalry in the campaigns of Frederick the Great and of Napoleon, down to the battle of Lutzen in 1813. _Examen du livret provisoire,_ &c. Marbot. _Le Spectateur Militaire,_ contains many essays by cavalry officers on the various questions connected with the organization and use of this arm. _Die Gefechtslehre der beiden verbundenen Waffen-Kavallerie und reitenden Artillerie._ Decker. _Manuel de l'officier._ Ruhle de Lilienstern. _Aide-memoire, a l'usage des officiers de cavalerie._ _Journal de l'infanterie et de la cavalerie._ _Traite de tactique pour les officiers d'infanterie et de cavalerie._ _Histoire des exploits et des vicissitudes de la cavalerie prussienne._ Coutz. CHAPTER XI. ARMY ORGANIZATION.--ARTILLERY. _Artillery_.--Previous to the invention of gunpowder in the thirteenth century, the machines of war were divided between two classes of military men, the engineers (_engignours_, as they were called in the middle ages) and the artillery, (_artilliers_, as they were formerly called,) the latter being particularly charged with the management of the lighter and more portable projectile machines, such as the balistas and arco-balistas, which were used for throwing different kinds of arrows--_fleches, viretons, carreaux, matras_, &c., while t
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