C. de. Bonnevilles: Les Reveries ou Memoires

Title

C. de. Bonnevilles: Les Reveries ou Memoires

Description

First publication of the famous work on the art of war by Moritz of Saxony (1696-1750), general and war theorist in French service. Edited and annotated by Zacharie de Pazzi de Bonneville. Frederick the Great was inspired by these. Title page in red/black lettering and the Saxen coat of arms: "Les Reveries ou Memoires sur L'Art de la Guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe, Duc de Courlande et de Semigalle, Marechal- General des Arme'es de S. M. T. C." On 228 pages, in the text many opening and closing vignettes as well as handwritten notes.In total 62 maps, 40 plans, 22 of which are folding plans with war setups, war theories, a horseman, cannons and much more.

c. 1756

Artist

De Pazzi, de Bonneville (1710-?)

Zacharie de Pazzi de Bonneville (1710-) was a French engineer and writer. Branch of Pazzi settled after exile in Lyon , where Bonneville was born, took up a career in arms and served in Prussia with the rank of captain of engineers bibliographer and librarian of the University of Jena. Bonneville was later engaged in the war against England , which ended with the peace of 1763 , and he took advantage of his stay in America to study its production and the customs of its inhabitants , and on his return to Lyon in 1765 he presented a report to the municipal authorities on a new method of navigating the boats on the Rhône and the Saône after their confluence until just outside the city. Bonneville left other written works , such as . The work is divided into four parts, the first being a treatise on the development of the art of war from ancient to modern times, the second a description of Lyon and its inhabitants, the third defensive warfare, and the fourth political treatises and military reflections. Bonneville also wrote a military work entitled "An Essay in Fortification " with Charles Vallancey. Branch of the Pazzi settled after exile in Lyon , where Bonneville was born, took up a career in arms and served in Prussia with the rank of captain of engineers bibliographer and librarian of the University of Jena. Bonneville was later engaged in the war against England , which ended with the peace of 1763 , and he took advantage of his stay in America to study its production and the customs of its inhabitants , and on his return to Lyons in 1765 he presented a report to the municipal authorities on a new method of navigating the boats on the Rhône and the Saône after their confluence until just outside the city. Bonneville left other written works , such as . The work is divided into four parts, the first being a treatise on the development of the art of war from ancient to modern times, the second a description of Lyon and its inhabitants, the third defensive warfare, and the fourth political treatises and military reflections. Bonneville also wrote a military work entitled "An Essay in Fortification " with Charles Vallancey.A branch of the Pazzi settled after exile in Lyon , where Bonneville was born, took up a career in arms and served in Prussia with the rank of captain of engineers bibliographer and librarian of the University of Jena. Bonneville was later engaged in the war against England , which ended with the peace of 1763 , and he took advantage of his stay in America to study its production and the customs of its inhabitants , and on his return to Lyons in 1765 he presented a report to the municipal authorities on a new method of navigating the boats on the Rhône and Saône after their confluence until just outside the city. Bonneville left other written works , such as . The work is divided into four parts, the first being a treatise on the development of the art of war from ancient to modern times, the second a description of Lyon and its inhabitants, the third defensive warfare, and the fourth political treatises and military reflections. Bonneville also wrote a military work entitled "An Essay in Fortification " with Charles Vallancey.

Historical Description

The art of war is the theory and practice of the preparation, conduct and execution of combat operations of various dimensions in all spheres, which emerged with the formation of war and the armed forces. The art of war includes more than just warfare. It is divided into three components according to the increasing scale of combat operations: tactics, operational art and strategy. The art of war emerged in the period of transition from the gentile order (The origin of the family, private property and the state) to the class society in a long historical process and developed in connection with the gradual formation of states and the military. It is connected with the politics of peoples, states, classes, nations and coalitions of alliances, as well as the armed forces, and the wars they fought and military theoretical thinking. The oldest European written records on warfare date from the time of the Trojan War (ca. 1300 BCE), namely from Homer's work Iliad. The process of development towards the art of war intensified in the 5th/4th century B.C.E. in the countries of the Near East and North Africa, and continued in Europe for centuries until the 5th century B.C.E. The term art of war first appeared in European military writings in the 16th/17th century. It referred to the activity of the commander in war. Between 1519 and 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Art of War or Dell'arte della guerra, which mainly describes military affairs and reports on tactics, strategy and politics in feudal society. Until the 18th century, military affairs and the command of troops were often understood as a craft of war or art rather than a science. Principles and rules of the art of war in late feudal armies were reflected in the writings of the French marshals Henri de la Tour d`Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne (1611-1675), and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), the Austro-imperial generals Raimund von Montecuccoli (1609-1680) and Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), and the Prussian king Frederick II. and in the 17th/18th century. An outstanding representative of a new art of war was the French Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821).