Table of Contents

Preface A Note on the Translation Introductory Essay Treatise on Partisan Warfare: Preface On the Recruitment and Discipline of a Light Corps Composed of Infantry and Cavalry Of the Strength and Arms of a Light Corps Of the Drill of the Infantry and the Cavalry How Such a Corps or Detachment, Composed of Cavalry and Infantry, Ought to Act Upon a March and When It Meets the Enemy Of the Selection of an Outpost, and How the Leader of a Light Corps or a Detachment, Composed of Infantry and Cavalry, Has to Conduct Himself in This Case What the Leader of a Corps or a Detachment, Composed of Cavalry and Infantry, Has to Do When He Needs to Occupy and Defend a Fortified Town On the Rules to Be Observed in Reconnaissance On Raids in an Open Terrain and Against Walled Towns How the Commanding Officer of a Corps or a Detachment, Composed of Cavalry and Infantry, Who Holds the Advance Post of an Army Has to Act if the Enemy Retreats On Ambushes On Retreats Appendix on the Three Most Important Tasks That an Officer of Light Cavalry Has to Perform in the Field Select Bibliography Index

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This translation of Johann Ewald's classic essay, Abhandlung Uber den kleinen Krieg, published in 1785, describes light infantry tactics in an era of heavy infantry formations. Selig and Skaggs comment on Ewald's treatise on partisan warfare and its relevance to current military doctrine. This is of great value to historians of American Revolution and pre-Napoleonic warfare.

About the Author

ROBERT A. SELIG is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hope College. He has published a number of scholarly articles dealing with eighteenth-century German-American history. German is his first language. DAVID CURTIS SKAGGS is Professor of Military History and Strategy at the Air War College. He has written a number of publications on the history of the American Revolutionary era and on military history. He also served as Command Historian, U.S. European Command, Stuttgart, Germany. His books include Roots of Maryland Democracy, 1753-1776 (Greenwood, 1973), and he is co-editor of In Defense of the Republic: Readings in American Military History.

Reviews

?It is a well-written and enlightening work, and the editors have produced a translation that is highly readable and impressive for its scholarship. ...a welcome addition to the body of literature concerning light infantry and its employment. ...The editors have done a masterful job of bringing to life the historical figure and the ideas of Johann Ewald.?-Special Warfare

"It is a well-written and enlightening work, and the editors have produced a translation that is highly readable and impressive for its scholarship. ...a welcome addition to the body of literature concerning light infantry and its employment. ...The editors have done a masterful job of bringing to life the historical figure and the ideas of Johann Ewald."-Special Warfare