Code Militaire, ou Compilation des Reglemens Et Ordonnances de Louis XIV, Roy de France Et de Navarre - Hardcover

Chevalier De Sparre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0365728489 ISBN 13: 9780365728481

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

This book establishes an official code of ordinances to regulate military life for the French under King Louis XIV. This code outlines the rules and statutes relating to all functions of French warfare, including the recruitment, logistics, and conduct of both officers and soldiers. The ordinances touch on military life in its totality, detailing not only how conscripts are to be raised and paid, but also how prisoners are to be kept and the procedures for surrendering fortresses. Within these pages, the author demonstrates the extreme level of detail involved in regulating warfare in the era of Louis XIV, with rules accounting for nearly every conceivable scenario that could arise in the course of a campaign. This book will prove essential reading for any scholar of military history or anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the functioning of the French army in the 17th century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0365728489
• ISBN 13: 9780365728481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 521