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[Introduction to Revised Edition]
[Contents] (2 pages)
[Introduction]
[Detailed Table of Contents] (12 pages)

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[I. France]
[II. Prussia]
[III. Austria]
[IV. Bavaria, Holland, Saxony]
[V. Italy]
[VI. Russia]
[VII. Sweden, Norway, Denmark]
[VIII. Great Britain]
[IX. Switzerland]
[X. United States]

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IN

FRANCE, PRUSSIA, AUSTRIA, RUSSIA, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, SARDINIA, ENGLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES.

DRAWN FROM RECENT OFFICIAL REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS.

By HENRY BARNARD, LL.D.

REVISED EDITION.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY E. STEIGER,
22 & 24 FRANKFORT STREET.
1872.

[REVISED EDITION.]

The first edition of Military Schools in France and Prussia was issued in 1862, as a number of the American Journal of Education; and subsequently in the same year this portion was printed as Part I. of a comprehensive survey of the whole field of Instruction in the Science and Art of War in different countries. The circumstances under which the publication was begun, are set forth in the Preface to the imperfect edition of 1862. Now that the survey in the serial chapters of the Journal is as complete as the material at the command of the Editor, and the space which he can give to this special subject enable him to make it, the several chapters have been revised and brought together in a single volume, to present the actual condition of this important department of national education in the principal states of Europe, as well as in our own country.

It is due to the late Col. Samuel Colt, the inventor of the Colt Revolver, and the founder of the Colt Patent Fire-Arms Factory—two enterprises which have changed the character and the mode of constructing fire-arms in every country—to state that the information contained in the first edition of this Treatise, was collected and prepared at his request, to assist him in maturing the plan of a School of Mechanical Engineering, which he proposed to establish on his estate at Hartford, and on which, after the breaking out of the War of Secession, he decided to engraft both military drill, and military history, and to give that scientific instruction which every graduate of our national Military and Naval Academies ought to possess. Soon after Col. Colt’s death (Jan. 10, 1862), Mrs. Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, learning what had been done in the direction of her husband’s wishes, authorized the use which has been made, of the material already collected, in the preparation of this treatise, and of the volume already published on Technical Schools in different countries, and of any more which might be collected and prepared at her expense, to illustrate any department of his plan of a scientific school at Hartford.

HENRY BARNARD.

Hartford, Conn., March, 1872.

[CONTENTS.]

PAGE.
Introduction,[3]
[I. FRANCE.]
Outline of Military System,[9]
System of Military Instruction,[10]
I. Polytechnic School at Paris,[11]
1. Subject and Methods of Instruction prescribedfor Admission,[13]
2. Scientific Course in Lycées and otherSchools in reference to,[49]
3. History, Management, Studies,Examinations,[55]
4. Public Services, Legal and Military, providedfor by,[88]
5. Programmes of Lectures and Courses ofInstruction,[91]
II. The Artillery and Engineer School ofApplication at Metz,[133]
III. The Regimental Schools of Practice forArtillery and Engineers,[221]
IV. The Infantry and Cavalry School at St.Cyr,[225]
V. The Cavalry School of Practice at Saumur,[241]
VI. The Staff School at Paris,[245]
VII. The Military Orphan School at LaFleche,[257]
VIII. The School of Musketry at Vincennes,[259]
IX. The Military and Naval Schools of Medicineand Pharmacy,[261]
X. The Naval School at Brest,[263]
XI. The Military Gymnastic School atVincennes,[265]
Remarks on French Military Education,[273]
[II. PRUSSIA.]
Outline of Military System and MilitaryEducation,[275]
I. Outline of Military System,[281]
II. Historical View of Military Education,[284]
III. Present System of Military Education andPromotion,[293]
IV. Examinations; General and Professional for aCommission,[297]
1. Preliminary or Ensign’s Examination,[297]
2. Officers’ Examination,[302]
V. Military Schools preparatory to the Officers’Examination,[310]
1. The Cadet Schools, or Cadet Houses,[310]
2. The Division Schools,[321]
3. The United Artillery and Engineers’School,[325]
VI. The School for Staff Officers at Berlin,[330]
VII. Elementary Military Schools forNon-commissioned Officers,[329]
1. Military Orphan Houses,[339]
Orphan-House at Potsdam,[340]
Orphan-House at Annaburg,[345]
2. The School Division or Non-commissionedOfficers’ School,[348]
3. Regimental Schools,[350]
4. The Noble-School at Liegnitz,[350]
VIII. Remarks on the System of Military Education inPrussia,[351]
Appendix,[351]
The Artillery and Engineer School at Berlin,[353]
The Staff School at Berlin,[395]
[III. AUSTRIA.]
Military System and Instruction[409-464]
I. Schools of non-commissioned officers[411]
II. School for officers[429]
III. Special Military Schools[436]
IV. Staff School at Vienna[447]
V. Reorganization of Military Schools in1868[453]
VI. Cavalry Brigade School for officers[463]
[IV. BAVARIA, SAXONY,HOLLAND.]
Military System and Schools of Bavaria[465-480]
I. Cadet Corps—War School—Artillery,Engineers, and Staff Schools[467]
II. Military Academy atDresden[471]
III. Military Academyat Breda[477]
[V. ITALY.]
Military System and Schools[481-500]
I. Military Academy at Turin[483]
II. Artillery and Engineer School[489]
III. Staff School and Staff Corps[492]
IV. Regimental School for officers[494]
V. School for Artillery officers[498]
VI. Nautical School at Genoa[499]
[VI. RUSSIA.]
Military System and Schools[501-514]
I. Imperial Staff School at St. Petersburg[505]
[VII. SWEDEN, &c.]
Military System and Schools[515-516]
[VIII. GREAT BRITAIN.]
Military System and Schools[511-686]
I. Council of Military Education[535]
II. Royal Military College at Sandhurst[557]
III. Royal Military Academy at Woolwich[585]
IV. Royal School of Military Engineering atChatham[595]
V. Professional Instruction for officers.[605]
1. Survey Class at Aldershot.
2. Advanced Class of Artillery at Woolwich.
3. School of Gunnery at Shoeburyness
VI. Staff College and Staff appointments[619]
VII. School of Musketry, and Army Schools[625]
VIII. Naval and Navigation Schools[627]
IX. English and other Naval Systems and Schoolscompared[655]
1. French Naval and Navigation Schools[659]
2. German Naval and Navigation Schools[681]
[IX. SWITZERLAND.]
Military System and Military Instruction[687-714]
I. Federal Militia—Cantonal CadetSystem—Target Shooting[689]
II. Federal Instruction ofofficers—experience of 1870[710]
[X. UNITED STATES.]
Military System and Schools[713-940]
A. Military Education for Land Service[715]
I. National Military Academy at West Point[721]
II. Special Artillery School at FortressMonroe[819]
III. Military element in State Schools[825]
IV. Individual and Corporate Institutions[838]
V. Military Drill in Public Schools[865]
B. Naval and Navigation Schools[887]
I. United States Naval Academy at Annapolis[897]
II. School of Naval Construction and MarineEngineering[937]
III. Instruction for the Mercantile Marine[939]
General Review of Military System andSchools[945]