Charles Ardant du Picq
French Army officer
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- 1821–1870
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About Charles Ardant du Picq
Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq was a French Army officer and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.
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