Midterm 1 Flashcards
Dutch Drill
Maurice of Nasau, Prince of Orange (1567-1625)
First documentation of war
Jacques Callot (1592-1635)
Made war an enterprise
Albrecht Von Wallenstein (1583-1684)
Dutch reforms, logistics, cavalry, artillery, co-ordination (first Modern Army)
Gustavus Adolphous
First Standing Army
Louis XIII
Main changers in the French military after 7 years war
Philisophs
Made maps that detailed attacks/campaigns
General Pierre Bourcet in 1763
created booklets that outlines everything a commander needs to know for war
General Pierre Bourcet
Created divisions with 12,000 men
Marshal Victor-Francois de Broglei
drills exact bore for artillery
Jean Maritz (1680-1743)
Drilled bore perfected by
Jean Maritz jr (1711-1790
Commander of French artillery after 1763
Jean Vaquette de Gribeauval
Essai Général de Tactique
count Jacques Antoine Hippolyte Guibert (1743-1790)
Volunteers of 1971
100,000 active citizens, for 1 year
Volunteers of 1972
220,000 men (no property required)
Three Armies in France during French Revolution
Old Royal Army, Volunteers of 91 and 92
1793 Jacobins call for all of society to fight
Levee en Masse
“Organizer of Victory”
Lazare Carnot
implemented Bourcet’s divisional organization
Lazare Carnot
shock tactics and attack Collums
Lazare Carnot
stages coup and calls himself Consoler
Napoleon Bonaparte
what was Napoleon in 1793
Captin of Artillery
What was Napoleon in 1796
Commander of Italian invasion
General of British army in Peninsular Wars
Arthur Wellesley, future Duke of Wellington
created fuze shell
Henri-Joseph Paxhans
Jeune Ecole (naval school)
Admiral Theophile Aube
“The Influence of Sea Power Upon History” (1890)
Captain Alfred Thayes Mahan
Secretary of Naval Defense and Mahan’s friend
Theodore Rosevelt
Who caused the creation of pearl harbor naval base
Standford Dole
Who thought America should control the world through the navy
Mahan
Advocate for American naval expansion
Charles Boutelle, Maine congressman
Rational Laws based on Code Napoleon
Robert Reel
new ruler of Prussia that promises to bring nationalism without liberalism, and creates Landwehr
Otto Von Bismark
who increased Prussian army size by adding more short-term conscripts
Helmuth von Moltke