Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the WorldSunzi, active 6th century B.C.
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Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World
Sunzi, active 6th century B.C.
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800; War -- Early works to 1800
Fabius Cunctator, 11, 120.
Facile ground, 115, 118, 135, 136.
Fan Chü’s use of spies, 166.
Fei River, battle of the, 25.
Fêng Hou, lii, 84.
Fêng I, a student of Sun Tzŭ, xlii.
Fire, as an aid to the attack, 156; dropping, 151, 152; five ways of
attacking with, 150; material for, 152; proper seasons for attacking
with, 152, 153; to be started on the windward side, 155.
Five advantages, the, 72, 74, 75.
Five cardinal tastes, 36.
Five cardinal virtues, 3.
Five classes of State ceremonial, xlviii.
Five dangerous faults, 77.
Five developments in attacking with fire, 153 _sqq._
Five elements, the, 53.
Five essentials for victory, 23, 24.
Five factors in war, 1.
Five musical notes, 36.
Five _Pa Wang_, xlix, 141.
Five primary colours, 36.
Flags and banners, 16, 34, 64, 65.
Flat country, campaigning in, 83, 84.
Flight, 105.
Foraging, 12, 15, 123, 161.
Foreknowledge, 163.
Forestalling the enemy, 147.
Forethought, want of, 97.
“Forty-one Years in India,” referred to, 35.
Four seasons, the, 54.
Frederick the Great, quoted, 48, 168, 169.
Frontier passes, 146.
Frontal attacks, 45.
Fu Ch‘ai, xvi.
Fu Chien, 25, 115.
Fu-ch‘u, King of Ch‘u, 124.
Fu Kai, xxiii, xxix.
Fu-k‘ang-an, 63.
Fu Yen-ch‘ing, 69, 70.
General, the, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16, 19, 21, 44, 55, 66, 77, 98, 107, 109,
110, 130, 131, 134, 157, 159, 163, 171, 174.
Generals, professional, xxii.
Generalship, degrees of, 17, 18; the highest, 48.
Giles’ Biographical Dictionary, quoted, 128.
Giles’ Chinese-English Dictionary, referred to, 57, 134.
Gongs, 34, 64.
Grant, General, 47.
Great Wall of China, xliv.
Greeks, Homeric, 9.
Grindstone and egg, 35.
Ground, high and low, 84; of intersecting highways, 71, 116, 119, 135,
137; proper use of, 130.
Grounds, the nine, 114, 134, 138.
Guides, local, 60, 140.
Han, red banners of, 144.
_Han Chih_. See _Ch‘ien Han Shu_, bibliographical section of.
_Han Kuan Chieh Ku_, quoted, xx.
Han Hsin, xliv, 28, 33, 34, 81, 143, 167; a student of Sun Tzŭ, xlii;
quoted, 68.
_Han Shu_. See _Ch‘ien Han Shu_.
Hannibal, 11, 57, 66, 120, 140.
Hasty temper, 78.
Hearing, quick, 29.
Heaven, 2, 4. 28, 113.
Heights, precipitous, 100, 103.
Hemmed-in ground, 72, 117, 120, 135, 137.
Henderson, Col., quoted, 6, 42, 48, 52, 59, 101, 130, 131.
Herodotus, referred to, 129.
Ho Ch‘ü-fei, xl.
_Ho Kuan Tzŭ_, referred to, xxiv.
Ho Lu (or Ho Lü), King of Wu, xi, xiii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxvi, 5, 128.
Ho Shih. _See_ Ho Yen-hsi.
Ho-yang, night ride to, 65.
Ho Yen-hsi’s commentary on Sun Tzŭ, xl; quoted, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 29,
30, 34, 56, 69, 74, 110, 115, 116, 122, 147, 165, 166, 167, 168, 174;
referred to, xvii, 31, 43, 62, 152.
Horses, tethering of, 129.
_Hou Han Shu_, quoted, 10, 94, 132, 139, 151, 155; referred to, xlii.
Hsi, the graduate, xxxiii.
Hsia dynasty, 174.
Hsiang, Duke of Sung, xlix, 141.
Hsiang Chi, xlix, 133.
Hsiang Liang, xlix.
Hsiang Yü. _See_ Hsiang Chi.
Hsiao State, 110.
Hsiao Chi, a commentator, xli.
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