The science of war
Subtitle: a collection of essays and lectures, 1892-1903
By: by the late Colonel G. F. R. Henderson... Ed. by Captain Neill Malcolm...with a memoir of the author, by Field Marshall Earl Roberts...With a portrait and 4 maps.
Contributors: Malcolm, Sir Neill, 1869- ed.; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl, 1832-1914.
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co.
Published: 1905
Place of publication: London; New York (etc.)
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 (chapter I-IV) : Journal of the Royal united service institution and the United service magazine (chapters VI, VII, and XII) : Edinburgh review (chapter VII) : and Count Sternberg's book, My expericnes of the Boer war (chapter XIII) of Pref.
Table of contents: title: Memoir, by Field-Marshall 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.