Princes, Posts and Partisans

The Army of Louis XIV and Partisan Warfare in the Netherlands (1673-1678)
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13176-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 840 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

This volume explores French partisan warfare in the Spanish Netherlands during the Dutch War (1672-78). It considers such practices as contributions, fire-raids, and blockades before sieges. The author relies extensively on archival sources, and in many cases explores events that have been passed over by similar studies. Louis XIV and his generals used partisan warfare to fit a strategy of exhaustion to ensure territorial conquest. The French army's reliance on partisan warfare reveals the limitations of the war-making potential of Louis XIV's state; at the same time it leads to the emergence of a more modern practice of military operations to pursue theater-strategic objectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Satterfield, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
List of Maps
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on Money

Introduction … 1

Ch. 1 The Dutch War in the Netherlands … 12
Ch. 2 Organizing the Imposition of Contributions and War Taxes … 42
Ch. 3 The Garrison Force and Partisan Warfare … 89
Ch. 4 Raids … 132
Ch. 5 Field Armies as Source and Target of Partisan Warfare … 179
Ch. 6 The Defense of the North of France … 215
Ch. 7 Blockades … 269

Epilogue … 319

Bibliography … 329

Index … 335

Über Autor(innen)

George Satterfield, Ph.D. (2002) in History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, teaches history at the State University of New York, Morrisville. He recently contributed an article on the wars of Louis XIV and co-authored a guide to early modern military sources.