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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