Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the Eve of World War II

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| 297 1812, War of, 50–54, 73 1814 Campaign (Napoleon), 111 1st Infantry Division, 204, 208, 222 1st U.S. Volunteers (Rough Riders), 165, 168 3rd Division, 208–209 4th Infantry Division, 207–208 5th Marine Regiment, 204 25th Infantry Regiment, 166 33rd Division, 207 35th Division, 206–207 77th Division, 206 79th Division, 205 91st Division, 206 Adolfus, Gustavus, 104 Advanced Guard, Out-Post, and Detachment Service of Troops (Mahan), 106, 111, 116, 152–153 compared to Wagner’s works, 181 Alexander, Robert, 206 Alger, Russell, 163 American Campaigns (Steele), 192–193 American Expeditionary Force, 173, 202–210, 215, 219 established a School of the Line and an Army General Staff College, 203 the general staff training section of, 214 recreated army’s education system in France, 202 American General Staff, 176–177, 180, 187–188, 200, 210, 219, 222–223, 239, 246 and the 1923 FSR, 220 and the divisional structure debates, 216 undertook writing of the 1904 IDR, 193 undertook writing of the 1905 FSR, 198 American Military Library, The (Duane), 46 American professionalization, 175, 211 American Quarterly Review, 66, 72 American way of warfare, 4, 12, 90, 256, 262 the colonial heritage of, 64–65 committed to the French Combat Method, 108 fundamental elements of, 2 looks to Napoleonic warfare, 65 Anderson, Richard, 128 applicatory method, 184, 239 definition of, 159 arme blanche (cutting weapon), 26, 40 Armies of Europe and Asia, The (Upton), 176 Armstrong, John, 49, 56, 60 favored French system of tactics, 46 worked to adopt French Tactics, 55 Army and Navy Chronicle articles referencing Napoleon in, 70 Army and Navy Journal, 109, 139–140, 160–161 Army Organization (Fiebeger), 236 Army professionalization, 150–151, 160, 170, 173, 175–176, 210 Army War College, 187–188, 211, 221, 239 collected reports on German Army, 225 study of Napoleon of, 245 use of military history of, 244 Army-Navy football game, 152 Index 298 | Artillery School at Fort Monroe, 141, 156–157 influenced the curriculum of Fort Leavenworth, 158 Austerlitz, battle of, 2, 110–111, 132, 191–193, 243 Austro-Prussian War (1866), 137–140, 157 Baker, Newton, 216 Balck, William, 179 Barlow, Francis, 129 Bates, John C., 145 Beaulieu, Jean Pierre, 35 Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 110, 119, 122, 124 Bee, Barnard, 124 Belknap, William, 156 Bell, J. Franklin, 180, 183–185 as Chief of Staff ordered a revision of the FSR in 1910, 200 Belleau Woods, battle of, 204 Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste, 35 Bigelow, John Jr., 138 Birney, David, 129 Bismarck, Count Otto von, 138 Bliss, Tasker, 188 Blitzkrieg, 246, 259–260 Lynch’s opinion of, 249 Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 110 Blue Book. See Regulations, tactical, Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States Boer War, 178 Boxer Rebellion, 178 Brain of an Army, The (Wilkinson), 177 Bravo, Nicolas, 87 Broglie, Victor-François de, 19 Brown, Jacob, 50, 53 Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of, 12, 14–16 Buddecke, Albert, 185, 186 Bugeaud, Robert, 12 Bull Run, first battle of, 120–125 Bullard, Robert, 207–208 Burnside, Ambrose, 128–129 Butterfield, Dan, 117 Cameron, George, 205, 208 Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry (Butterfield ), 117 Campaigns and Battles (Fiebeger), 190 use of Napoleonic examples, 191 camps of instruction, 40 AEF use of, 203–204 French Revolution use of, 21 impact on battle of Chippawa of, 50–51 US Army interwar period use of, 240 Cantigny, battle of, 204 Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, 32, 46, 58, 72, 77 Casey, Silas, 97–98, 131–132, 142–143 Mexican-American War service of, 87 in charge of training Union troops in 1861, 96 Cass, Lewis, 60 Cay, Richard Millon, 119 Cervera, Pasqual, 163 Chaffee, Adna, 166 Championnet, Jean-Etienne, 35 Chapultepec, battle of, 84–88 Charles, Archduke (Karl Lorenz of Austria ), 34, 36–37, 153 Chippawa, battle of, 50–51, 65, 89 analysis of, 52–53 Churbusco, battle of, 85 Church, William Conant, 160 Churchill, John. See Marlborough, Duke of Cincinnati, Society of, 43–44 citizen-soldier, 11, 23–24, 27, 37–38, 40 impact on the battle of Fleurus of, 33 referenced in the French Regulations of 1792, 28 tactical implication of, 25–26 Civil War, 111, 120–132, 143, 237–238, 258, 261 Army War College Study of, 245 Artillery School study of, 157 Fort Leavenworth study of, 192 Clausewitz, Carl von, 5, 24, 191, 238 Index | 299 Wagner’s use of, 181...