![]() ![]() His subsequent career included similar posts such as Fort Monroe, Virginia and the Artillery School there, and the Presidio in San Francisco. His first posting, as a Second Lieutenant, was to the 4th Artillery and the garrison at Alcatraz Island, California, one of the forts protecting America’s Pacific Coast. Charles Totten ranked among the top ten cadets of his graduating class. His father was Brigadier General James Totten (Class of 1841) and his uncle was Joseph Gilbert Totten (Class of 1805). Lewis Totten graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point (Class of 1873). Like his rival Walter Livermore (Class of 1865), Charles A. Strategos presented a layered set of games that addressed tactics, grand tactics, and strategy, supplemented by material for the study of military history, with an appendix that included statistical studies relating to the conduct of war. Totten, (Fourth Artillery, United States Army), published STRATEGOS: A Series of American Games of War Based Upon Military Principles and Designed for the Assistance Both of Beginners and Advanced Students in Prosecuting the Whole Study of Tactics, Grand Tactics, Strategy, Military History, and The Various Operations of War. Appleton and Company of New York and then-First Lieutenant Charles A. “Charles Adelle Lewis Totten, 1873.” Photo courtesy of the USMA Special Collections & Archives. This time, we look at Charles Totten’s Strategos, a contemporary design to Livermore’s game. ![]() Livermore’s American Kriegsspiel (1882), respectively. The previous articles discussed von Reisswitz’ Prussian Kriegsspiel (1824) and W.R. This is the third article in our series examining 19th Century war games designed and published primarily but not exclusively for the use of professional armies. Research article by Robert Mosher, 5 August 2021 ![]()
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