The second and longer Table of Contents was printed at the end of the volume.There is a supplementary table ofcontents partway through the France section, covering only the Polytechnic.The relationship between the Tables of Contents (all) and the printed book iscasual at best; information may have been accurate for the first edition.Except in the case of apparent typographical error, discrepancies were left asprinted.
The section on Switzerland (Part IX) was printed after the section onGreat Britain (Part VIII). For this e-text it has been grouped with thesmaller countries (Parts III through VIII).
Introduction to Revised Edition
Contents (2 pages)
Introduction
Detailed Table of Contents (12 pages)
In separate files:
I. France
II. Prussia
III. Austria
IV. Bavaria, Holland,Saxony
V. Italy
VI. Russia
VII. Sweden, Norway,Denmark
VIII. Great Britain
IX. Switzerland
X. United States
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FRANCE, PRUSSIA, AUSTRIA, RUSSIA, SWEDEN,SWITZERLAND, SARDINIA, ENGLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES.
DRAWN FROM RECENT OFFICIAL REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS.
By HENRY BARNARD,LL.D.
REVISED EDITION.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY E. STEIGER,
22 & 24 FRANKFORT STREET.
1872.
REVISED EDITION.
The first edition of MilitarySchools in France and Prussia was issued in 1862, as a number of theAmerican Journal of Education; and subsequently in the same year thisportion was printed as Part I. of a comprehensive survey of thewhole field of Instruction in the Science and Art of War in differentcountries. The circumstances under which the publication was begun, areset forth in the Preface to the imperfect edition of 1862. Now that thesurvey in the serial chapters of the Journal is as complete as thematerial at the command of the Editor, and the space which he can giveto this special subject enable him to make it, the several chapters havebeen revised and brought together in a single volume, to present theactual condition of this important department of national education inthe principal states of Europe, as well as in our own country.
It is due to the late Col. Samuel Colt, the inventor of the ColtRevolver, and the founder of the Colt Patent Fire-Arms Facto