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Book L Arme blanche de guerre franc  aise au XVIIIe siecle

Download or read book L Arme blanche de guerre franc aise au XVIIIe siecle written by Maurice Bottet and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L arme blanche de guerre fran  aise au XVIIIe si  cle

Download or read book L arme blanche de guerre fran aise au XVIIIe si cle written by Maurice Bottet and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Les armes de guerre portatives en France  du d  but du r  gne de Louis XIV    la veille de la R  volution   1660 1789  de l ind  pendance    la primaut    2

Download or read book Les armes de guerre portatives en France du d but du r gne de Louis XIV la veille de la R volution 1660 1789 de l ind pendance la primaut 2 written by François Bonnefoy and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1991-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Le colonel Bonnefoy apporte une contribution essentielle à l'histoire militaire de la France moderne. Sa thèse analyse, avec autant de clarté que de rigueur, des progrès techniques, technologiques et tactiques, sans lesquels la France n'aurait pas été en mesure de dominer l'Europe continentale à l'aube de l'ère contemporaine. » Jean Chagniot, professeur à l'Université de Picardie. « On a souvent raconté des batailles, et les musées exposent les armes conservées, mais un chaînon manquait. Avec l'ouvrage du colonel Bonnefoy, les instruments de combat - et les hommes qui les ont conçus, fabriqués, expérimentés – prennent, dans nos connaissances, la place qui leur revient. Ainsi, on comprendra mieux ce que furent l'art militaire et la guerre, de Louis XIV à la Révolution. » Professeur émérite André Corvisier, président d'honneur de la Commission internationale d'Histoire militaire. « Le XVIIIe siècle est une grande époque, en France, pour la réflexion stratégique et tactique. Mais il manquait, jusqu'alors, pour l'étudier avec fruit, un travail de base sur les armes portatives - particulièrement le fusil - dont l'apparition sur le champ de bataille a des conséquences considérables sur les méthodes de combat. François Bonnefoy, au prix d'un dépouillement considérable d'archives, apporte désormais une précieuse information, non seulement sur l'évolution technique du fusil, mais sur les structures de production et leur place dans la vie économique du pays. » Général (c. r.) Jean Delmas, président de la Commission française d'Histoire militaire. « Paradoxalement, l'industrie de guerre française de l'époque moderne n'avait pas donné lieu à une étude approfondie. La lacune est désormais comblée. Se révèle ainsi, grâce à l'extraordinaire documentation amassée par le colonel Bonnefoy, la mise en place d'une très forte industrie d'armement sous Louis XIV. Sur cette base, la technologie française accentue, au XVIIIe siècle, son avance. La thèse de François Bonnefoy dévoile ainsi un pan majeur de l'histoire militaire et, plus encore, de l'histoire nationale de notre pays. » Jean Meyer, professeur à l'Université de Paris Sorbonne

Book La fabrication des armes blanches militaires fran  aises au XVIIIe si  cle

Download or read book La fabrication des armes blanches militaires fran aises au XVIIIe si cle written by Michel Pétard and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anatomy Of Glory  Napoleon And His Guard  A Study In Leadership

Download or read book The Anatomy Of Glory Napoleon And His Guard A Study In Leadership written by Commandant Henri Lachouque and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 1692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory of the Imperial Guard resounds above all others in the annals of war. Created, built and nurtured as a bodyguard for Napoleon, it grew from a brigade of less than two thousand men into a virtual army, and became ‘a human fortress which no one but he could dominate and no enemy could penetrate’. And, on such battlefields as Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, Wagram and Waterloo, it won the laurels of undying fame. Written by France’s foremost historian of the Napoleonic Wars, Commandant Henry Lachouque, and translated and adapted by Anne S. K. Brown, this sumptuous work is enhanced by over 180 illustrations, including 86 plates in full colour. With its vivid narrative and lavish illustrations, The Anatomy of Glory can lay justifiable claim to be one of the most magnificent books on military history ever published. The critical acclaim that greeted it upon its first publication provides ample testimony to its reputation: ‘This dramatic account of the birth, life and death of the fabulous Imperial Guard tells a stirring story in English for the first time.’-The Saturday Review of Literature. ‘No one but the most presumptuous who wishes to know about the Imperial Guard can afford to ignore this astonishing compilation. The illustrations alone...are reproduced with a clarity, a beauty, and technical perfection which no one can fail to admire.’ Journal of the RUSI. ‘This sumptuous book ... can yield rich rewards to any reader interested in the fabric of leadership. It is a delight to look at and a pleasure to read.’ -The New York Times. `... Not the well-worn history of conquest and defeat, but of the grognards themselves, marching through readable pages.’ -History Today. ‘Anne S. K. Brown has used her knowledge of French history and uniforms to render Lachouque freely and vigorously. Napoleon just happened to be fallible. But the superb apparatus of his fallibility is gorgeously recalled in this volume.’ The Scotsman.

Book The Anatomy of Glory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henri Lachouque
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2017-06-30
  • ISBN : 1526703432
  • Pages : 1235 pages

Download or read book The Anatomy of Glory written by Henri Lachouque and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 1235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleons Imperial Guard was arguably the most famous military formation to tread the battlefields of Europe. La Garde Imperial was created on 18 May 1804, and from its origins as a small personal escort, the Guard grew in size and importance throughout the Napoleonic era. Eventually, it became the tactical reserve of the Grande Arme, comprising almost a third of Napoleons field forces. The men of the Imperial Guard were the lite of the First Empire, its officers and men the military aristocracy of post-Revolutionary France.Used only sparingly, the Guard acquired a reputation of invincibility. Such had become its prestige, when the attacks of the Guard were repulsed at Waterloo, they signaled not only the defeat of the French army but also the end of an era.In this magnificent study, unparalleled in depth and scope, the renowned French historian Commandant Henry Lachouque has produced a lavish and sumptuous work. It combines vivid narrative with valuable and unique uniform illustrations, including seventy-four full color plates from the Anne S.K. Brown collection, to make The Anatomy of Glory one of the most important and most sought-after books on military history ever published.

Book Arms and Armor in Colonial America  1526 1783

Download or read book Arms and Armor in Colonial America 1526 1783 written by Harold Leslie Peterson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finest single-volume survey of Colonial weaponry covers firearms, ammunition, edged weapons, and armor. Over 300 illus.

Book French Military History  1661 1799

Download or read book French Military History 1661 1799 written by Steven T. Ross and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1984 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acta Periodica Duellatorum  vol  6  issue 2

Download or read book Acta Periodica Duellatorum vol 6 issue 2 written by Matyas Miskolczi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acta Periodica Duellatorum (APD) is an independent, international, and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Historical European Martial Arts studies. This emerging field of research has interdisciplinary dimensions, including notably History, Anthropology, Historical sciences, Art History, History of Science and Technology, Archaeology, Sport Sciences, etc. APD was founded in 2013 and publishes two issues per year from 2016 onwards. APD is a non-profit association, based in Switzerland. It is supported by institutional grants, donators/partners and by its readers. The journal is published electronically (Open Access) and printed for subscribed readers and institutions.

Book The Anatomy of Glory

Download or read book The Anatomy of Glory written by Henry Lachouque and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering the Revolution

Download or read book Engineering the Revolution written by Ken Alder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technological life.” Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history of one particular artifact—the gun—by offering a novel and historical account of how material artifacts emerge as the outcome of political struggle. By expanding the “political” to include conflict over material objects, this volume rethinks the nature of engineering rationality, the origins of mass production, the rise of meritocracy, and our interpretation of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

Book Library Catalog

    Book Details:
  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1060 pages

Download or read book Library Catalog written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Military Rivalry  1500   1750

Download or read book European Military Rivalry 1500 1750 written by Gregory Hanlon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than 200 years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. The book charts the increasing scale, expenditure and duration of early modern wars; the impact of modern fortification on strategy and the movement of armies; the incidence of guerrilla war and localized conflict typical of the French wars of religion; the recourse by warlords to private financing of troops and supplies; and the creation of disciplined standing armies and navies in the age of Absolutism, made possible by larger bureaucracies. In addition to discussing key events and personalities of military rivalry during this period, the book describes the operational mechanics of early modern warfare and the crucial role of taxation and state borrowing. The relationship between the Christian West and the Ottoman Empire is also extensively analysed. Drawing heavily upon international scholarship over the past half-century, European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant will be of great use to undergraduate students studying military history and early modern Europe.

Book Subject Guide to Reprints

Download or read book Subject Guide to Reprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  New York

Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Reprints  1985

Download or read book Guide to Reprints 1985 written by Ann S. Davis and published by Guide to Reprints. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: