Thoughts on Tactics and Military Organization: Together with an Enquiry Into the Power and Position of RussiaLongman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1838 - 392 стор. |
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Сторінка 130 - ... advancing infantry. The nature of the ground, which was an open wood of evergreen oaks, and which grew more obstructed as they advanced, had caused the men of the three regiments of Cavalry to become a good deal mixed in each other's ranks ; and the front being at the same time constantly changing as the right was brought forward, the whole had now crowded into a solid line, without any intervals. In this order, but without any confusion, they pressed rapidly forward . upon another French brigade,...
Сторінка 82 - At the battle of Belgrade," says this great soldier, " I saw two battalions cut to pieces in an instant : the affair happened in the following manner : — A battalion of Lorraine and one of Neuperg were posted on a height that we called the battery ; and just when a breeze of wind dispersed a fog which had impeded our view, I observed these troops on the brow of the hill, separated from the rest of the army. Prince Eugene asked me if my sight were good, and who were the cavaliers coming round the...
Сторінка 211 - Greeks to arm, while at the same time lie arrayed himself in splendid mail. First, the shining greaves he fastened to his legs with silver buckles ; he then adjusted to his breast the cuirass given him, in token of friendship, by Cinyras, when fame had announced even to distant Cyprus that the Greeks were about to cross the seas in their ships for the purpose of attacking Troy ; ' Ten rows of azure steel the work infold, Twice ten of tin, and twelve of ductile gold...
Сторінка 131 - Elley was wounded ; and it is thought that nearly one-third of the dragoons came to the ground ; but as the remainder retained sufficient command of their horses to dash forward, they succeeded in breaking the French ranks, and dispersing them in utter confusion over the field. At this moment Colonel Lord Edward Somerset, discovering five guns upon the left, separated from the brigade with one squadron, charged, and took them all. Here terminated the series of attacks we have endeavoured to describe...
Сторінка 85 - On this occasion, however, the Austrians realised every thing that could be expected from brave horsemen ; for without awaiting the infantry and artillery that were still far behind, they instantly charged, and though saluted with grape by the French artillery, and received with a volley of musketry fired at less than fifty yards, they overthrew both the squares at the first onset. Two thousand men were taken, and most of the others cut down, for only a few hundred stragglers reached Bouchain and...
Сторінка 220 - ... of the soldiers entirely out of the question. Military costume thus became a matter of first-rate importance, and formed an interesting subject of conversation ; its most trifling details rose into consequence, and were watched over with vigilant severity. Frederick William of Prussia, the father of Frederick the Great, led the way in this new career of ambition ; and was so particular about dress, that he would most certainly have placed himself in arrest had he discovered that his own uniform...
Сторінка 105 - To perform such deeds, however, the horsemen must be cheered by hope and animated by example; but against prepared infantry they are now generally hopeless, and led in a hopeless spirit : and little, indeed, can be expected from the feeble heart of man, when its best support in danger and strongest impulse to action are both removed. It is no doubt a splendid sight, when bugle sound and trumpet clang send onward to the charge a gallant line of horsemen : their plumes wave, their sabres gleam, the...
Сторінка 103 - England blenched at toys like bayonets, where would now have been the fame and independence of their country? If the cavalry in charging infantry do their duty, one of three things must follow, as a matter of course ; either they must fall by the fire of the musketry, be arrested by the bayonets, or they must overthrow the opposing ranks. Now, without again reverting to the few musket-shots that tell, as shown in the first part of this essay, we know very well that, to the utter astonishment of many...
Сторінка 297 - ... accomplished by fleets against towns exactly so circumstanced, placed, and governed. Algiers is situated on an amphitheatre of hills, sloping down towards the sea, and presenting therefore the fairest mark to the fire of hostile ships. But where is the capital exactly so situated that we are ever likely to attack ? And as to the destruction of a few second-rate towns, even when practicable, it is a mean, unworthy species of warfare, by which nothing was ever gained. The severe loss sustained...
Сторінка 291 - The writer can answer the question with some accuracy, for he went along the entire sea-line the very day after the capitulation, and found no part of the parapet injured so as to be of the slightest consequence, and only one solitary gun dismounted, evidently by the bursting of a shell, and which could not, of course, have been thrown from the line of battle ships, but must have been thrown from the land batteries...