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    Napoleonic France, the Royal Navy dominated the seas. France adopted a guerre de course strategy by licensing civilian privateers to seize British shipping...
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  • of the Royal warships as battlefleets (guerre d’escadre) towards supporting the war on trade (guerre de course). The allied convoys presented large targets...
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    points in its history, but often relied on privateers and fought a guerre de course. Land forces centred around the large common army, but adopted European...
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  • approach to a kind of attack. Examples of military doctrines include: Guerre de course Hit-and-run tactics Mahanian of late 19th up to mid-20th century Manhunting...
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    would be a Kreuzerkrieg (Cruiser war) fleet. Captain King argued that guerre-de-course German fleet of Panzerschiffe, cruisers, and U-boats operating in task...
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  • Guerre d'Escadre to the Guerre de Course. The Hague: Marinus Nijhoff. ISBN 978-9-40102-072-5. Valan, R-J. (1763). Traité des prises: ou Principes de la...
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    effectively put an end to the French corsair raids in the Caribbean, the guerre de course, as the French called it, took a huge toll on the Spanish treasure...
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  • Imperial Navy's war plan of "Guerre D' Escadre" (Fleet Warfare), in contrast to Germany's war plan of "Guerre De Course" – were relatively unsuccessful...
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  • The École supérieure de guerre ("Superior School of Warfare") was the most senior military education institute and staff college of the French Army, from...
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    Suggesting the abandonment of fleet warfare, guerre d'escadre, in favour of commerce-raiding, guerre de course, Vauban advocated the use of the fleet backed...
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  • for a great naval battle in the North Sea but instead embraced the guerre de course strategy that he had previously opposed. The disparity in size between...
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    truces between England and Scotland, there were periodic outbreaks of a guerre de course. James V built a new harbour at Burntisland in 1542. The chief use...
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  • The Croix de Guerre (French: [kʁwa də ɡɛʁ], Cross of War) is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross...
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    although the guerre de course, or running battle, between Muslims and Christians continued unabated. In 1557 the Knights elected Jean Parisot de Valette Grand...
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    The École de guerre-Terre (EDG-T) ("Army War College") is a French military academy that trains senior army officers, recruited mainly after succeeding...
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    Battleship (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    in some navies, while targeting merchant ships (commerce raiding or guerre de course, as posited by the Jeune École) could never succeed. Mahan was highly...
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    (2012). The Crisis of French Sea Power, 1688–1697: From the Guerre d'Escadre to the Guerre de Course. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 74. ISBN 978-94-010-2072-5...
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    Crisis of French Sea Power, 1688–1697: From the Guerre d'Escadre to the Guerre de Course. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 74. ISBN 978-94-010-2072-5....
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  • Franz von Hipper of Germany and Raoul Castex of France about using guerre-de-course to force the numerically superior Royal Navy to divert its strength...
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    because all had fallen in the grip of Mahanian doctrine which held guerre de course could not win a war. At the beginning of the conflict, most navies...
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    in an open sea battle and therefore had switched to privateering – Guerre de course. 1695–1696 The Royal Africa Company suffered heavy losses, and lost...
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  • was to build a fleet of cruisers and submarines that would wage a guerre de course ("war of the chase", a strategy of seeking to destroy the British Merchant...
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    forces Navales de la France Dislere, Rif (1875), Les Croiseurs; La Guerre de Course (in French), p. Les Croiseurs Winfield, Rif (2014), British Warships...
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  • Japan, along with the rest of the Allies, drew heavily upon Germany's Guerre de Course (commerce raiding) operations during the First World War, and their...
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    Boarding was of particular importance in the 17th and 18th centuries' guerre de course, or commerce raiding, as well as to privateers and pirates. Because...
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    Erich Raeder (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    was to build a fleet of cruisers and submarines that would wage a guerre de course (commerce raiding against an enemy's merchant shipping). After reading...
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    Michel; Graziani, Antoine-Marie (eds.). La guerre de course en Méditerranée (1515-1830) (in French). Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. pp. 73–144...
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  • Snowtime! (French: La Guerre des tuques 3D), also released as La Bataille géante de boules de neige in France and Cleo in the United Kingdom, is a 2015...
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    ocean-going ships designed primarily for the Confederate Navy's strategy of guerre de course. Confederate States Navy cruisers were typically lightly armed, with...
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    merchantmen. Despite truces with England there were periodic outbreaks of a guerre de course. James V built a new harbour at Burntisland in 1542. The chief use...
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