Lehr Henry Antonovich( Lieutenant-General, the famous military writer)
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Biography Lehr Henry Antonovich
(1829 - 1904). He graduated from the course in the engineering college and military academy. Was a professor of strategy at the General Staff Academy, artillery and engineering. The chief of the first of which he occupied from 1889 to 1898. Consisted corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Leer article first appeared in the "Military Collection" of the late 50's and early 60-ies. One of them, in which the author defines the likely changes in tactics, as a result of the introduction of rifled arms, drew the attention of senior military authorities; Leer works in this direction influenced the rearmament of our army. From the military-literary works Leer especially given "experience short-historical study of the laws of art of warfare" (a positive strategy, and several publications, translated into various foreign languages). In 1871 - 1873 years out of his "Public lecture on the Franco-Prussian War". Under his Main edition published "Encyclopedia of military and marine sciences". A major historical work: "Review of the wars of Russia from Peter the Great to the Present" published under the editorship of obscheyu Leer; to do with Part 1 is designed almost all of them directly themselves.
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