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BRACK (Gen.). POSTOS Avançados de Cavallaria Ligeira. Lisboa. 1871. - BRACK (Gen.) POSTOS Avançados de Cavallaria Ligeira . Recordações pelo General Brack. Traducção feita em 1863 pelo Coronel Luiz Maldonado d' Eça. Lisboa: Typographia Universal, 1871. 2 v.: il.; 170 mm. Portuguese translation of the classic work by General Antoine Fortuné de Brack (Paris, 1789 - Évreux, 1850), an officer in the Napoleonic cavalry who fought in the Prussian, Polish, Russian, and Waterloo campaigns as an officer of the Lancers of the Guard, and who commanded the Cavalry School of Saumur between 1838 and 1840. The Avant-postes de cavalerie légère , first published in 1831, is a manual for cavalry officers, organized into forty chapters in the form of questions and answers, dealing with routine service, remount, encampment and uniforms, as well as moral values, obedience and courage, developing the specific missions of light cavalry in wartime: reconnaissance, charging and escorting. Rare and curious. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate