La petite guerre au XVIIIe siècle

By Sandrine Picaud-Monnerat

Subjects: Military art and science, Military litterature, Irregular Warfare, Early modern history, Seventeenth Century, Tactics, Partisan Warfare, Habsburg, Light dragoons, War of the Austrian Succession, Eighteenth Century, Military History, Guerrilla warfare, War and society, History, Light troops

Description: This book presents an thorough analysis and a case study upon the "petite guerre" in the 18th century Europe (with historical reminder to the 17th century). The “petite guerre“ was a type of warfare consisting in skirmishes and ambushes which, next to the sieges and battles, filled the theatre of operations during the conventional wars between princes. The locution "petite guerre" with this meaning was always used in the singular, and has to be used so today, in any language.