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Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert (12 November 1743 – 6 May 1790) was a French general and military writer. Born at Montauban, he accompanied his father in wars before he became a general himself. In 1770, he published an essay on tactics which was very influential in his time.
Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert (parfois aussi François-Apolline de Guibert), né le 12 novembre 1743 à Montauban et mort le 5 mai 1790 à Paris, est un officier général, tacticien et écrivain français, membre de l'Académie française.
Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert (b. 1743–d. 1790), was the son of an officer in the French army, Charles-Benoît Guibert (he occasionally published under the name François-Appoline, possibly due to a birth certificate mix-up).
If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790.
13 de sept. de 2016 · If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France...
Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert, son of a prominent French officer and bureaucrat, spent his life in the French army. Reaching maturity in the post-Rossbach reform period, Guibert was uniquely positioned to offer the army a series of reforms that would have far-reaching impact.
Foremost among the latter was a young officer named Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte de Guibert, whose 1772 Essai général de tactique quickly became the most celebrated work of theory in European military circles.
