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... BY BRIALMONT COLONEL ON THE BELGIAN STAFF TRANSLATED BY CHARLES A. EMPSON LIEUTENANT ROYAL ARTILLERY WITH NINE PLATES • BOD LONDON HENRY S. KING & Co. , 65 CORNHILL 1872 183 . e . 33 . " ( All rights reserved ) CHAPTER CONTENTS . I.
... BY BRIALMONT COLONEL ON THE BELGIAN STAFF TRANSLATED BY CHARLES A. EMPSON LIEUTENANT ROYAL ARTILLERY WITH NINE PLATES • BOD LONDON HENRY S. KING & Co. , 65 CORNHILL 1872 183 . e . 33 . " ( All rights reserved ) CHAPTER CONTENTS . I.
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... Artillery . The most advanced of these little posts were supported by others nearer the town ; if they were attacked , the riflemen in the front row retired to the more distant ambuscades , and if the besiegers advanced in force to ...
... Artillery . The most advanced of these little posts were supported by others nearer the town ; if they were attacked , the riflemen in the front row retired to the more distant ambuscades , and if the besiegers advanced in force to ...
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... Artillery ; and we gain our object , only with immense loss , and only because the effective strength of the enemy is less , by more than half , than the minimum considered necessary for the defence of a field profile . The conclusion ...
... Artillery ; and we gain our object , only with immense loss , and only because the effective strength of the enemy is less , by more than half , than the minimum considered necessary for the defence of a field profile . The conclusion ...
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Alexis Henri Brialmont. fire , while still offering but a small mark for Artillery . They may also ensure the following additional advantages : — Ist . To render the enemy's fire less certain , as he can only with difficulty see the ...
Alexis Henri Brialmont. fire , while still offering but a small mark for Artillery . They may also ensure the following additional advantages : — Ist . To render the enemy's fire less certain , as he can only with difficulty see the ...
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... Artillery . The shelter - trenches constructed in France admit of the same end being attained with more method and in less time . They are the result of individual labour organised and perfected . The profile of shelter - trenches ...
... Artillery . The shelter - trenches constructed in France admit of the same end being attained with more method and in less time . They are the result of individual labour organised and perfected . The profile of shelter - trenches ...
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18th Royal Irish 65 Cornhill advanced posts advantage armed Army Artillery attack Austrians banquette barricades bastions battalions batteries berm BRIALMONT Brigade Caldiero camp Cavalry centre château chevaux de frise Colonel de Pidoll columns command corps d'armée covering mass cubic feet Demy 8vo detachments ditch earth enceinte enemy enemy's enfilade Engineers epaulments excavation exposed exterior reserve favour field of battle fire flanks flèches foot force formed German ground guns Hasty Intrenchments Horse Artillery important Infantry knapsack La Rothière line of abatis line of battle line of defence little wood merlons mètre military minutes musketry Napoleon occupied offensive front operations parapet pickaxes placed points position profile in Fig protected Prussian rank rear redoubts réduit regiments require riflemen road Rogniat Sadowa second line shelter shelter-trenches shovels skirmishers slope soldiers superior slope TACTICAL DEDUCTIONS toise trench troops trous de loup wing workmen yards
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