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The infantry phalanx was a Sumerian tactical formation as far back as the third millennium BC. [1] It was a tightly knit group of hoplites, generally upper and middle-class men, typically eight to twelve ranks deep, armored in helmet, breastplate, and greaves, armed with two-to-three metre (6~9 foot) pikes and overlapping round shields. [2]
The Partisan in War, a treatise on light infantry tactics written by Colonel Andreas Emmerich in 1789. Beattie, Daniel J. (1986). "The Adaptation of the British Army to Wilderness Warfare, 1755–1763", Adapting to Conditions: War and Society in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Maarten Ultee (University of Alabama Press), 56–83. Chet, Guy.
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics; for Exercise and Maneuvres of Troops when acting as Light Infantry or Riflemen is a book written by William J. Hardee in 1855. [1] Its purpose was to act as a guide for commissioned officers in the instruction of their command .
Module C – Tactics: This module produces a weapons sergeant proficient in Special Forces and light-infantry tactics through platoon level. Tactics FTX: This module develops the student's knowledge, skills, and understanding of the Special Forces weapons sergeant on tactics, techniques, and procedures affecting mission planning as it pertains ...
These tactics were transmitted to American commanders in the form of manuals, the three principal ones being Winfield Scott's Infantry Tactics, or Rules for Manoeuvers of the United States Infantry (published in 1835), William J. Hardee's Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics: for the Instruction, Exercise and Maneuver of Riflemen and Light Infantry ...
Encirclement – Both a strategy and tactic designed to isolate and surround enemy forces; Ends, Ways, Means, Risk – Strategy is much like a three legged stool of ends, ways, means balanced on a plane of varying degree of risk; Enkulette – A strategy used often in the jungle that aims at attacking the enemy from behind.
It is a treatise on light infantry tactics learned in the Seven Years' War under Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, and in the American Revolutionary War. Emmerich had commanded the British Emmerich's Chasseurs regiment during the Revolutionary War. The treatise was dedicated in 1789 to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.
Infantry – the phalanx and Roman legion, experimentation with elephants for shock action only a limited success: Armies and casualties increase significantly, introduction of siege and field artillery by the Romans Second unarmoured period (to Charlemagne's victory at Pavia (774)) Light cavalry – horse archers and shock action defeat infantry