The science of war
Subtitle: a collection of essays and lectures, 1891-1903
By: by the late Colonel G.F.R. Henderson. Ed. by Captain Neill Malcolm. With a memoir of the author, by Field Marshal Earl Roberts. With a portrait and 4 maps.
Contributors: Malcolm, Neill, Sir, 1869-; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl, 1832-1914
Publisher: Longmans; Green
Published: 1910
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.; Great Britain. Army.; War.; Military art and science.; South African War, 1899-1902.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Notes: Republished from the Encyclopaedia britannica (chapters I-IV); Journal of the Royal united service institution and the United service magazine (chapters VI, VII, and XII); Edinburgh review (chapter VIII): and Count Sternberg's book, My experiences of the Boer war (Chapter XIII) cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: Memoir, by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts.; title: War.; title: Strategy.; title: The tactical employment of cavalry.; title: Tactics of the three arms combined.; title: Notes on Wellington.; title: Military criticism and modern tactics.; title: Lessons from the past for the present.; title: Battles and leaders of the civil war.; title: The American Civil War.; title: The battle of Gettysburg.; title: The campaign in the Wilderness of Virginia, 1864.; title: The training of infantry for attack.; title: Foreign criticism.; title: The British army.