Research Catalog

Title

Atlas of military strategy : the art, theory, and practice of war, 1618-1878 / David G. Chandler ; cartography by Hazel R. Watson and Richard A. Watson.

Author

Chandler, David G.

Publication

London : Arms and Armour Press ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub. Co., ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Watson, Hazel R.
• Watson, Richard A.

Description

208 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

Provides a visual history of the art of warfare from the pike and musket of the 17th century to the threshold of modern war.

Subject

• Strategy > History
• Tactics > History
• Military history, Modern
• Stratégie > Histoire
• Tactique militaire > Histoire
• Histoire militaire moderne et contemporaine
• Strategy
• Tactics
• Warefare

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally published: Don Mills, Ont. : Collier Macmillan Canada ; Stoney Creek, Ont. Fortress Pub., 1980.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-203) and index.

Contents

• The classical manoeuvres of warfare -- Strategic legacies of the past -- 1618-1721: Wars of Religion and National Expansion. Population growth and army strengths, 1600-1800 -- The Thirty Years War, 1618-48 -- The English Civil War, 1642-51 -- The expansion of France -- Masters of Manoeuvre -- Marlborough's Generalship -- The Iberian Peninsula, 1702-13 -- Siege Warfare -- Islam versus Christianity -- Charles XII and the Great Northern War -- Colonial strategy -- The Settlements of 1713 and 1721 -- 1722-1815: European Rivalries and the Rise and Fall of Empires. The Austrian succession and Seven years of war -- The contribution of Frederick the Great -- Colonial rivalry between the great powers -- The British Acquisition of India, 1615-1815 -- Combined operations -- The American War of Independence, 1775-83 -- The challenge of Revolutionary France -- North Italy: 1796 and 1800 -- The French in the Levant, 1798-99 -- The Austerlitz campaign, 1805 -- The Campaign of 1806 -- Napoleon's first setbacks in battle -- Europe under Napoleon -- The war in Spain and Portugal, 1807-14 -- The American War of 1812 -- The French invasion of Russia, 1812 -- The Campaigns of 1813-14.
• 1816-78: Towards Total War. The Latin-American Wars of Independence -- The growth of world empires and spheres of influence, 1816-1914 -- The Sick Man of Europe -- The expansion of Tsarist Russia -- The Crimean War, 1854-56 -- The growth of the 'Second' British Empire -- The Indian Mutiny, 1857-59 -- The Risorgimento: The Italian struggle for Independence -- The expansion of the United States of America -- The American Civil War, 1861-65 -- The Campaign and Battle of First Bull Run, 1861 -- The Shenandoah Valley and Peninsular Campaigns of 1862 -- The Chancellorsville Campaign, 1863 -- The Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 --The Campaign and Siege of Vicksburg, 1863 -- The Victor of the North, 1863-65 -- The Unification of Germany under Prussia -- The Six Weeks (Austro-Prussian) War of 1866 -- The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71 -- The Balkan Crisis of 1877-78 and the European Settlement --- The Genius of Helmuth von Moltke -- Towards Armageddon.

ISBN

• 1854093835
• 9781854093837

LCCN

97201114

OCLC

• ocm35638366
• SCSB-14579746

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library