Antoine-Henri Jomini | |
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 Portrait by George Dawe | |
| Born | 6 March 1779 Payerne, Switzerland |
| Died | 22 March 1869 (aged 90) Paris, France |
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| Awards | Baron of the Empire |
Antoine-Henri Jomini (French: [ʒɔmini]; 6 March 1779 – 22 March 1869)[1] was a Swiss military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini was largely self-taught in military strategy,[2] and his ideas are a staple at military academies, the United States Military Academy at West Point being a prominent example; his theories were thought to have affected many officers who later served in the American Civil War. He may have coined the term logistics in his Summary of the Art of War (1838).
- ^ Antoine-Henri Jomini in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- ^ "JOMINI, Antoine Henri, Baron de". napoleon.org. Retrieved 29 July 2023.