Joseph of Xylander

Joseph Carl August Antony Ritter und Edler von Xylander was a military man, philosopher, knight and writer of Germany, born in 1794 and died in 1854. Captain d'Herbelot has given to our country, France, a translation of the work of the knight Xylander, a book made mainly for military schools and that consequently it could agree above all to the officers desirous of imbibing the armament of the powers military ("Journal des sciences militaires", Paris: J. Corréard, 1848). Biography

Xylander was a senior of the royal corps of engineers in Bavaria, a knight of various orders, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Military Sciences and a PhD.

Xylander also directed a newspaper with kretschmer and printed in Münich, entitled "Military communications", and as a writer wrote military strategy and its application, tactical manual for infantry and cavalry, weapons science and essay on the military art. His work "Study of Arms", with 10 plates, was augmented by Klemens Schédel, captain of the royal artillery regiment of Bavaria, Prince Leopoldo, professor of tactics of the real body of the cadets, translated from German into French by MD D'Herbelot, captain of artillery, complete with a vocabulary of weapons.

Xylander, apologist of the military and writer of Prussia, Dietrich Freihher von Bülow, author of "Spirit of the modern war system", "Principles of modern war, or theoretical and applied strategy, "New tactics of the moderns as it should be", where it establishes a distinction between strategy and tactics, reducing all the military operations of the triangle with very singular consequences, translated into French by Count LMP Tranver de Laverne, author of "The Military Art of the Most Famous Nations of Modern Antiquity" and "Treaty of Great Prussian Tactics", is antagonistic to any opinion of General Antoine-Henri Jomini, author of "Compendium on the Art of War" and "Treatise on Major Military Operations": In competition with the Archduke Charles, the two undoubtedly primitive writers of Strategy are Búlow and Jomini, and if we heed the latter's manifest irritation against that , it is evident that in Bülow lies the initiative and precedence (quote of the Spanish general José Almirante in his work "Military Dictionary", Madrid, War Depot Printing and Lithography, 1869). Works

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