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  1. [The] System of Mesnil-Durand, Originally Drawn from That of Folard. Who Folard Was. Exposition of His System

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  2. New Variations of the “French Order.” [The] Proofs Made at Metz. [The] System of Mesnil-Durand as It Was Executed at the Camp of Vaussieux. Examination of This System in All the Aspects of Its Detail

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  3. Avant-Propos

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  4. The Column Considered in Two Aspects: One, as Means of March and Maneuver, and Two, as Attack Disposition. It May Only Ever Be the Momentary and Accidental Order

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  5. Appendix A: Diagram V: Vaussieux and Its Environs

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  6. [The] System of Mesnil-Durand as It Is in His First Work, Titled Projet d’un ordre français

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  7. The Deep Order, and Particularly the Species of Deep Order Proposed by Mesnil-Durand: May It or Must It be the Primitive and Habitual Order, in Preference to the Deployed Order?

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  8. If One Would Adopt the System of Mesnil-Durand, Would It Then Follow That One Would Be Able, as He Announces, to Re-Serry Positions, Camps, and Orders of Battle?

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  9. System of Mesnil-Durand Considered in Relation to Marches and March Orders

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  10. [The] Current System of War Examined in Relation to Politics and to the Administration. It Would Be Impossible and Even Disadvantageous to Change It

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  11. Relationship of Positions to Subsistence. May One, Relative to Subsistence, Adopt the System of Shortening Positions?

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  12. [The] System of Mesnil-Durand Considered in Relation to Orders of Battle and to Battles

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  13. Appendix B: The French Army in the Eighteenth Century

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  14. [The] System of Mesnil Durand Enunciated in His Diverse Works. [The] Form by Which I Propose to Analyze It

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  15. The System of Mesnil-Durand: Is It Favorable to the Genius and the Character of the Nation?

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  16. Examination of the System of Mesnil-Durand Relative to Artillery

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  17. Other Great Obstacles to the Re-serrying of Positions and Orders of Battle Drawn from the Nature of Operations and from the Circumstances to Which Armies Are Subjected

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  18. The System of Mesnil-Durand Is Not Admissible in Any Respect. It Is a Matter of Holding to the One That Exists and Only Consolidating Our Constitution and Perfecting Ourselves in Modern Tactics

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  19. Appendix C: Glossary of Terms

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  20. Preliminary Material

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  21. Examination of the System of Mesnil-Durand Relative to Grand Maneuvers and to Army Movements

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  22. [The] System of Mesnil-Durand Accommodated to Our Constitution and Named [the] “French Order”

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  23. May Current Castrametation Change Form and Consequently Permit the Shortening of Positions?

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  24. Examination of the System of Mesnil-Durand Relative to Cavalry

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Jonathan Abel

  25. The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon

    Article • History Reviews of New Books, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Jonathan Abel