Table of Contents
Introduction 4
The Contemporary General's Perspective 7
Sieges and field armies
Campaign preparations and rehearsal
The decisive battle - Dutch caution and Swedish aggressiveness
The German doctrine - multiple battle lines - field artillery - terrain
Cavalry
The infantry confrontation - command and control - broken-country fighting
Outpost warfare
The Spanish Army 26
Infantry formations
Cavalry: Spanish and German - French Huguenot developments
The Dutch Reforms 32
The Dutch battalion - the distinction between administrative and tactical organization - the Dutch company
The Dutch firing system
Battle plans - the Dutch brigade
Cavalry and artillery
The Thirty Years' War 43
Dissemination of Prince Maurice's reforms to belligerents, by veterans, instructors and translations
Spanish conservatism
From Denmark to Sweden
The Swedish Intervention 46
The army of Gustavus Adolphus: unit organization - firing systems - cavalry and artillery
Swedish brigade deployment
The Swedish army in battle: Breitenfeld, 1631
The English Civil Wars 56
Dutch, Swedish and German influences
Monk, Barriffe, Elton and Watts
Prince Rupert at Edgehill, 1642
Marston Moor, Donnington and Naseby, 1644-45
The last word
Index 64
