Antoine-Henri Jomini

Antoine-Henri Jomini
Portrait by George Dawe
Born	(1779-03-06)6 March 1779 Payerne, Switzerland
Died	22 March 1869(1869-03-22) (aged 90) Paris, France
Allegiance	Helvetic Republic (1798–1801)  First French Empire (1805–1813)  Russian Empire (1813–1829)
Service/branch	French Imperial Army Russian Imperial Army
Battles/wars	Napoleonic Wars Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829
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).