09-05-2010, 11:15 AM
I don't know whether to be glad this little question isn't as easy as all that — and therefore my author not so bad after all — or what.... I am glad to have exercised and maybe entertained a few noggins onboard.
I'm not having any luck so far in finding the specific forts after Iéna, despite scouring French-language pages, but thanks for the tip Jeff.
The word cavalry or horsemen appears 95 times in the version of the Strategemata on my site, but not once relevantly, although I agree that the passage in III.2.3 is plausible! The main use his examples make of cavalry is diversionary (in one way or another), although that might be expected of a work focusing on stratagems: on the other hand the work is a sort of compendium of many engagements. The closest he comes is a few instances of cavalry being used to lure the occupants of a camp (not a fort) out on a chase, so that other troops can come in and take the more or less empty camp behind them; in particular, II.5.8.
Please consider the question still open!
I'm not having any luck so far in finding the specific forts after Iéna, despite scouring French-language pages, but thanks for the tip Jeff.
The word cavalry or horsemen appears 95 times in the version of the Strategemata on my site, but not once relevantly, although I agree that the passage in III.2.3 is plausible! The main use his examples make of cavalry is diversionary (in one way or another), although that might be expected of a work focusing on stratagems: on the other hand the work is a sort of compendium of many engagements. The closest he comes is a few instances of cavalry being used to lure the occupants of a camp (not a fort) out on a chase, so that other troops can come in and take the more or less empty camp behind them; in particular, II.5.8.
Please consider the question still open!
