[IV. PROGRAMME OF THE COURSE OF MILITARY ART AND FIELD FORTIFICATION.]
The course is divided into six parts, and is made up of lectures and works of Application in the Halls of Study and on the ground.
[I. LECTURES.]
| The 1st part contains sundry historical notices on the Organization of Armies, | 6 | Lectures. |
| 2d part is on Tactics, | 3 | “ |
| 3d part is on Castrametation, | 2 | “ |
| 4thpart is on Field Fortification, | 16 | “ |
| 5thpart is on Military Communication, | 10 | “ |
| 6thpart is on Strategy, | 6 | “ |
| Total | 43 |
FIRST PART.—HISTORICAL NOTICES ON THE ORGANIZATION OF ARMIES.
The first lecture commences with explanations relating to the Greek and Roman armies; their order of battle, mode of marching; comparison of the Roman Legion with the Greek Phalanx, and of the Roman Legion under Marius and under the Emperors.
2. Military organization of the Franks under the Kings of the first race. Consequences of the feudal system, acting on the military organization. Feudal armies. Chivalry. Crusades, and war against England. Establishment of the first standing armies. Results dependent on the introduction of fire-arms. Progress made in the Art of War and in the organization of armies, from the sixteenth century to the present time.
3. Necessity for standing armies. Their proper character. Recruiting. Promotion. Degrees of rank. Station of the officers. Various positions of military men. On the composition of armies, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers. Corps d’Etat-Major. Composition of the army during the Revolution and during the Empire. Actual formation of a French army.
General Staff. Commissariat. (Intendance.)—Different services dependent on it.
Relations between the strength of each of the arms that make up an army. On other corps which are not classed among the principal arms.