Napoleon's Maxim

Cavalry to Infantry Ratios

by Donald Featherstone

"The cavalry should bear a proportion to the infantry of one-fourth in Flanders or Germany; one-twentieth on the Pyrenees or Alps; one-sixth in Italy or Spain."

    --"Napoleon's War Maxims"


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