Thoughts on cavalry tactics. The composition of the General count Bismarck.

Thoughts on cavalry tactics. The composition of the General count Bismarck.

Odessa. In the city printing office. 1834 III, 291 p., 2 inserts with diagrams. Hardcover, size 11 x 17 cm. Complete state. Seals, owner's notes in pencil, the block is cracked before the table of contents. Foreword: Lachman.

BISMARCK, von, Friedrich Wilhelm, count, famous military writer on cavalry issues.

 Born in 1783, he began military service in the army of the elector of Hanover, but soon moved to the Nassau service, and then to the English army, and then forced by a duel to leave England, in 1807 he joined the wirtemberg army, where he received command of a squadron. 

He participated in the campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815 in the ranks of the wirtemberg cavalry and in 1815 was elevated to the count's dignity and appointed to the Commission for the transformation of the wirtemberg troops, where he was assigned a cavalry unit. 

Bismarck introduced several new formations and formations of cavalry and proposed a new, soon adopted, system of education and training of cavalrymen.

In 1835, Bismarck was summoned by Emperor Nicholas I to Russia to inspect the Russian cavalry assembled at Voznesensk. 

He died in 1860. 

As a military writer, Bismarck dealt with questions of tactics, training and education of cavalry. His best works: "Vorlesungen uber d. Taktik d. Reiterei" (3rd ed. 1826) and the addition to this work: "Elemente d. bewegungs'ehre eines Reiterregiments"; "Felddienst d.Reiterei" (1820)-"Field service of the cavalry" – have not lost their significance even now. "Ideentaktik d. Reiterei" (1829) translated into Russian in 1834 and published in Odessa under the title: "Thoughts of the cavalry."