The System of Field Manoeuvres: Best Adapted for Enabling Our Troops to Meet a Continental ArmyW. Blackwood, 1872 - 174 páginas Recipient of the Duke of Wellington's prize for best military essay. |
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The System of Field Manoeuvres: Best Adapted for Enabling Our Troops to Meet ... Sir John Frederick Maurice Visualização integral - 1872 |
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able action adapted advanced corps advanced-guard advantage appears arms army artillery assailants assume attack battalion batteries battle battle of Gravelotte Boguslawski brigade circumstances columns command CONTINENTAL ARMY corps d'armée Count Moltke detail difficult distance division drill Duke of Wurtemberg duty effect employed enemy enemy's epaulments essay essential experience extent fact fighting flank force formation formerly French front German Gravelotte ground guns habit hand heutige Gefecht horse-artillery important infantry large numbers late campaign less light cavalry main body Major Jones manœuvres manoeuvring means Metz military Moreover mounted riflemen move movements necessary necessity non-commissioned officers offensive officers organisation outposts Perizonius posi position possible practice present Prince Frederick Charles Prince Hohenlohe principle Prussian question rank rear regiments reserve Royal Artillery Saint-Privat seems side skirmishers small bodies soldiers St Privat superiority tactical tion tirailleurs Trans Trautenau troops weapon whole Wolseley writers
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Página 70 - ... district are required, the duty of assigning their proper functions to each. Some will be fit to join any troops of the line, and to become the sharpshooters selected on each occasion, or the mounted riflemen, who become the eyes of the army. Others may be able to act if properly incorporated with good troops, as the Dutch Belgians were incorporated in Wellington's army of 1815. Others will only be fit to be thrown into a fortress, there to learn
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