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Table Annexed To Article: The Art Of War By Baron Henri De Jomini In Mr Text, Peter Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: The Art Of War By Baron Henri De Jomini In Mr Text, Peter Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Baron Henri de Jomini’s Grand Tactique, first published in France (1805), went through a number of different editions and appeared under different titles and in different series throughout the first half of the Nineteenth Century. Although a reduction/translation of the work appears as John Armstrong’s Hints to Young Generals, which Our Constitutional Logic has published (for the first time) in MR text at 2 OCL 651, Jomini’s Grand Tactique was not faithfully rendered into English until 1862 (with a follow on printing in 1865) by Capt. G.H. Mendell and Lt. W.P. Craighill. Since OCL has compared this edition with …
Table Annexed To Article: Hints To Young Generals By John Armstrong Jr. In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Hints To Young Generals By John Armstrong Jr. In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Baron Henri de Jomini’s Grand Tactique, first published in France (1805), was appropriated by John Armstrong, immediately before his appointment to serve as Madison’s Secretary of Defense. The Senate reluctantly confirmed him over determined opposition. Armstrong brought a remarkable and very recent credential to his role as Secretary of Defense, which must be taken as compensating for his leading role in the Newburgh conspiracy of 1783. Perhaps as a measure of atonement for this disservice, Armstrong published (the previous summer, July 1, 1812) a slim volume Hints to Young Generals by an Old Soldier, distilling Jomini’s Grand Tactique (1805) …