Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Military schools and courses of instruction in the science and art of war, in France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Sardinia, England, and the United States. Drawn from recent official reports and documents. Revised Edition

Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900 [Compiler]· 17 chapters· 429,825 words

The following account of the SYSTEM OF MILITARY EDUCATION IN FRANCE, except in the case of three or four schools, where credit is given to other authorities, is taken from an English Document entitled “_Report of the Commissioners appointed_ (by the Secretary of War) _to consi...

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17. PART X.

The Constitution of the United States grants to Congress the power “to raise and support armies,” “to provide and maintain a navy,” “to make rules for the government of the land...

15. PART VIII.

The British army originated in the feudal system, by which the great barons were bound to furnish a contingent to the army of the State; and their vassals were bound to attend t...

9. PART II.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO CONSIDER THE BEST MODE OF RE-ORGANIZING THE SYSTEM FOR TRAINING OFFICERS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS; together with An Account of Foreign a...

7. PART III.--DIFFERENT MACHINES CONSIDERED IN THE STATE OF MOTION.

Equation of _vis viva_, and transmission of work in machines, account being taken of the different causes of power and resistance. Physical constitution of machines; _receiver_,...

1. PART I

The following account of the SYSTEM OF MILITARY EDUCATION IN FRANCE, except in the case of three or four schools, where credit is given to other authorities, is taken from an En...

10. PART III.

The Austrian Army is recruited by conscription, the period of service being for eight years, with two years in addition for the reserve; but such soldiers as wish it may general...

8. ill. The whole school, thus divided into eight companies, constitutes

There is also a Quartermaster, a Treasurer, a Steward, a Secretary of the Archives, who is also Librarian, an Almoner (a clergyman,) four or five Surgeons, a Veterinary Surgeon,...

16. PART IX.

In the year 1847 seven of the cantons of the Swiss Republic seceded from the Confederacy. Among them were the three forest cantons, the original nucleus around which the whole R...

12. PART V.

As the provinces, duchies, kingdoms, and dominions into which the territory and population of old Italia, in the progress of centuries after the utter destruction of the Western...

11. PART IV.

Bavaria, with a population in 1867 of 4,824,421, on an area of 29,347 English square miles, maintained in 1869-70, an armed force of 56,760 men on a peace footing, and of 92,500...

13. PART VI.

The Emperor is commander-in-chief of all the forces, by sea and land, assisted by the Staff-Office, the members of which are expert linguists, as well as scientific experienced...

2. PART I. KINEMATICS.--PRELIMINARY ELEMENTARY MOVEMENTS OF INVARIABLE

Ratio of the elementary displacement and the velocity of a point to the displacement, and velocity of its projection upon a straight line or plane. Use of infinitesimals to dete...

14. PART VII.

1. The _Indelta_, or national militia, paid and kept, not by the Government, but by the landowners, and, to some extent, from the income of State domains expressly reserved for...

5. PART I.--DYNAMICS.-- DYNAMICS OF A MATERIAL POINT.

Differential equations of the motion of a material point submitted to the continued action of one or more forces. The acceleration of the projection of a point upon any axis or...

3. PART II.--EQUILIBRIUM OF FORCES APPLIED TO MATERIAL SYSTEMS.

Principle of inertia, notion of force, of its direction, of its intensity. Principle of the equality of action and reaction. What is meant by the force of inertia? Principle of...

4. PART III.--ON THE WORK DONE BY FORCES IN MACHINES.

Principle of work in the motion of a material point. Extension of this principle to the case of any material system whatever in motion. Considerations relative to mechanical wor...

6. PART II.--SPECIAL MECHANICS OF FLUIDS.--HYDROSTATICS.

Principle of the equality of pressure in all directions. Propagation of the pressures from the surface to the interior of a fluid, and upon the sides of the vessel. Equations of...