MILITARY EDUCATION IN PRUSSIA AND OTHER GERMAN AND EUROPEAN 2. The National Militia, or First Landwehr,... 3. The Last Reserve, or Landsturm,.. Origin of the Landwehr System,.... II. HISTORICAL VIEW OF MILITARY EDUCATION,. Basis of the present System is a good General Education,. Origin of the Military Schools in the Wars of the Reformation,. Origin and Changes of the Division Schools,.. III. PRESENT SYSTEM OF MILITARY EDUCATION AND PROMOTION,. Usual Conditions and Course of obtaining a Commission,........ 1. A good General Education,...... Supreme Officer Board of Control,.... Classification and cost of Military Schools,. IV. EXAMINATIONS-GENERAL AND PROFESSIONAL FOR A COMMISSION,...... Preliminary Certificates,............... Programme of Studies, on which Examination turns,. VI. THE STAFF SCHOOL AT BERLIN,.. Entrance Examination,......... VII. ELEMENTARY MILITARY SCHOOLS FOR NON-COMMISSIOned Officers,. 1. Military Orphan-Houses,......... A. Military Orphan-House at Potsdam,... B. Military Orphan-House at Annaburg,.............. 2. The School Division, or Non-Commissioned Officers' School,. 3. Regimental Schools,. 4. The Noble-School at Liegnitz,..... VIII. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SYSTEM OF MILITARY EDUCATION IN PRUSSIA,..... 348 APPENDIX,. 351 351 351 351 352 352 357 357 Preliminary Instruction:-a. Mathematics; b. Physics; c. Chemistry; d. Tae 370 371 371 3. Artillery in Technical and Administrative point of view,.. 4. Progress and Literature of Artillery,...... D. General Distribution of Time for each Cœtus.... 2 GENERAL AND SPECIAL ENGINEERING IN THE FIRST AND SECOND CETUS..... 373 A. First Cœtus,.. a. In Field Fortification; b. in Permanent Fortification,.. B. Second Cœtus...... The Applied Arts in Attack and Defense, &c., 3. EXCLUSIVE ENGINEERING IN THE THIRD CETUS,....... 2. Theory of Constructions, Materials, Modes of Building,... 4. HYDRAULIC CONSTRUCTION IN THE THIRD CETUS,.. 1. General Principles of Hydraulic Architecture,......... 373 373 374 374 375 375 375 377 377 A. First Cœtus-Arithmetic, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Plane Trigonometry...... 381 PAGE. Tracing Batteries; Placing Ordnance; Ordnance Carringes and Wagons; Sieges, 378 Visit to and practice in Workshops; Iron Foundry; Boring-Machine,........ 390 Ammunition; Cannon; Gun-Carriages; Rules of placing Guns; Sham Siege, 391 8. PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN FORTIFICATION,.................................. THE WAR OR STAFF SCHOOL AT BERLIN,............................................................... 1. Objects and Plan; 2. Instruction; 3. Professors and Students,.. REVISED EDITION-1872. 1. Peace establishment. 2. War establishment.. Staff at head-quarters of each army corps....... 7. The heads of each school supreme in discipline.... 8. Educational experience valued in the head of a school.............. 9. Competition not very extensively recognized................ Its place supplied by personal knowledge of each individual. III. AUSTRIA. MILITARY SYSTEM AND INSTRUCTION IN AUSTRIA.. 1. OUTLINE OF MILITARY SYSTEM.. AUSTRIA-Continued.... C. Special Military Schools...... 1. Normal School for Military Teachers...... 2. United Higher Course for Artillery and Engineers.. 3. Staff and Adjutant School.............. Supreme Control of each class of Schools.... III. PECULIARITIES OF AUSRTIAN MILITARY EDUCATION IN 1856.. IV. STAFF SCHOOL AT VIENNA................ 1. General Staff of Austrian Army.. 2. Admission-Specimens of questions put......... 3. Subjects and Course of Instruction......... V. REORGANIZATION OF MILITARY EDUCATION IN 1868.. IV. BAVARIA, SAXONY, HOLLAND, &c. MILITARY SYSTEM AND SCHOOLS IN BAVARIA, I. MILITARY SYSTEM... II. MILITARY EDUCATION. 1. Cadet Corps... 2. War School........ 3. Artillery and Engineer School.. 4. Staff Academy..... MILITARY INSTRUCTION IN SAXONY....... ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY AT DRESDEN.. MILITARY SYSTEM AND EDUCATION IN HOLLAND. I. Military System..... II. Military Education.... 1. Military Academy at Breda.... 2. Naval Academy and Navigation Schools..... V. ITALY. MILITARY SYSTEM AND SCHOOLS IN ITALY...... I. MILITARY SYSTEM IN KINGDOM OF ITALY..... 1. Military Academy at Turin.. 2. Artillery and Engineer School.. 3. Staff School and Staff Corps.. 4. Regimental Schools.... 5. School of Artillery at the Arsenal............ 436 436 436 437 439 441 453 447 447 448 449 462 453 463 465 467 468 468 461 471 472 471 471 475 475 476 477 478 479 481 483 483 486 489 492 494 498 II. MODIFICATIONS SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THe Kingdom of ITALY.......... 499 VIII. GREAT BRITAIN. MILITARY SYSTEM AND EDUCATION. Historical Notice.. ORGANIZATION AND INSTITUTIONS IN 1871... I. COUNCIL OF MILITARY EDUCATION. 1. Historical Notice.... Organization and Duties in 1869.. Military Schools and Examinations.. Army Schools, Regimental Libraries and Reading-rooms.. 2. Examinations for Commissions and Promotious.. (1.) Examination for Direct Commissions... PAGE. 519-686 521 595 535 535 537 539 510 541 5-11 544 (2.) Public School Education as preparatory for Examination.... 546 Regulations in 1869.... (3.) Examinations for Promotions. (4.) Results of Examinations. 550 555 III. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS AT WOOLWICH 585 1. Historical Notice.. 582 584 585 2. Regulations for Admission.. 586 3. Course of Study.... Open Competition to the Artillery and Engineers established........ 4. School Preparation for Woolwich Examinations.. IV. ROYAL SCHOOL OF MILITARY ENGINEERING AT CHATHAM. 588 589 590 591 592 595 |