Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age 1792-1815: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics - Tapa dura

Reseña del editor

Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic World explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles with the technology available during the Napoleonic period (1789-1815), and points out how the development of such weapons technology changed the face of the battlefield. Divided into five sections it highlights:

- Individual components of the armies: the foot soldier, the cavalryman and the artilleryman, the equipment they wore and used, and how they fought together.

- Technology change, the emergence of military professionalism, and the impact these changes had on the battlefield.

- How units were used together on the battlefield, and strategic positioning of battle units.

- Specialist techniques and equipment developed for artillery.

- Naval warfare, from the ships in which the men fought to the weapons they carried.

Nota de la solapa

This book describes the fighting techniques used at the height of Napoleon Bonaparte's empire. The book explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles, and describes how the drastic changes in weapons technology and military systems would change the face of the battlefield forever. Using specially-commissioned color and black and white artworks to illustrate the battles, equipment and tacics of the era, FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF NAPOLEONIC AGE shows in detail how the battles were won that would define Europe for years to come.

Author Biographies: Michael F Pavkovic is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Diplomacy and Military Studies Programs at Hawaii Pacific University. Rob S. Rice is a Professor at the American Military University. Frederick C. Schneid is a Professor of History at High Point University in North Carolina. Chris L. Scott was Head of Education for The Royal Armouries. He has edited the magazineBattlefield, and co-founded The Guild of Battlefield Guides.