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Hippolyte Langlois was born at Besançon, Doubs on August 3, 1839.
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Hippolyte Langlois
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Hippolyte Langlois studied at the Ecole Polytechnique.
Career
He served in the army of Metz in the war of 1870. Eight years later he became major, in 1887 lieutenant-colonel and in 1888 colonel. At this time he was appointed professor of artillery at the Ecole de Guerre, and in this post he devoted himself to working out the tactical principles of the employment of field artillery under the new conditions of armament of which he foresaw the advent. The public re: ilk of his work was the great treatise L'Artillerie de campagne (1891 - 1802), which may still be regarded as the classic of the arm.
In 1894 he became general of brigade, and in 1898 general of division.
For two years after this he was the commandant of the Ecole de Guerre at the time that the modern French strategical and tactical " doctrine " was being developed and taught.
Army Corps on the German frontier, popularly called the " iron " corps.
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The British Army in a European war
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Enseignements De Deux Guerres Récentes: Guerres Turco-russe Et Anglo-boer (French Edition)
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The British Army in a European war
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February 12, 1912 (aged 72) -
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