Cavalry Studies from Two Great Wars, Comprising the French Cavalry in 1870, By Lieutenant-Colonel Bonie (Classic Reprint)

The three monographs united in this volume are each believed to possess peculiar and positive merit. The work of Colonel (now General) Bonie appeared very soon after the close of the Franco-G erman War, having been written, as it were, in the smoke of battle. In this respect it differs materially from the book of Major Kaehler, which is a recent production, and now makes its appearance in English for the first time. While Kaehler, unlike Bonie, does not write as an eye-witness and with the experience of an actual participator in the events described, he has had the advantage of historical researches which were not available to the French author, and though his book is naturally a less vivid picture, it can doubtless lay claim to greater historical accuracy than that of its companion. The essay on The Operations of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign, by Lieutenant-C olonel George B. Davis, U. S. A., first appeared in the Journal of the U. 8. Cavalry A ssociation, several years ago; but it has been revised by its author especially for the International Series. It is presented in this volume, not only because of its intrinsic merit as a study of the methods of the cavalry in one of our greatest campaigns, but also because of the picture it presents of the screening and reconnoitering duty of cavalry more than seven years before the performance of similar duty by the German cavalry astonished Europe as witli a new discovery in war.
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