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... direct fire against them . Now attacks in flank and in reverse can only succeed after the bas- tions are taken . Therefore the ground in front of these works should be swept as effectually as possible . Let us apply the above ...
... direct fire against them . Now attacks in flank and in reverse can only succeed after the bas- tions are taken . Therefore the ground in front of these works should be swept as effectually as possible . Let us apply the above ...
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... direct and flanking attack by abatis , or by a network of wire attached to pickets driven irregularly into the ground , a most effectual means of defence , of which the Americans and Prussians made very good use . It will in future be ...
... direct and flanking attack by abatis , or by a network of wire attached to pickets driven irregularly into the ground , a most effectual means of defence , of which the Americans and Prussians made very good use . It will in future be ...
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... direct fire are protected by traverses of earth , and others by stockades , behind which a banquette is placed . The opening between the traverses and the parapets is closed by means of chevaux de frise , railings , or house doors . In ...
... direct fire are protected by traverses of earth , and others by stockades , behind which a banquette is placed . The opening between the traverses and the parapets is closed by means of chevaux de frise , railings , or house doors . In ...
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... direct fire when they retired behind the guns after loading . The profile shown in the section on o p , Fig . 9 , Pl . 2 , requires much less work and affords the same protection to the detach- ments when they stand beside the guns in ...
... direct fire when they retired behind the guns after loading . The profile shown in the section on o p , Fig . 9 , Pl . 2 , requires much less work and affords the same protection to the detach- ments when they stand beside the guns in ...
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... direct fire . When there is time a ditch should be dug in front of these obstacles , and a banquette should be formed behind them . If necessary , stone fougasses should be placed in the streets to be followed by the enemy's troops , or ...
... direct fire . When there is time a ditch should be dug in front of these obstacles , and a banquette should be formed behind them . If necessary , stone fougasses should be placed in the streets to be followed by the enemy's troops , or ...
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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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Сторінка 91 - Vera." 2 vols. Fifth Edition. Cloth, gilt tops, I2j. *„* Also a Cheaper Edition in i vol. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BLU ME (Major W.). The Operations of the German Armies in France, from Sedan to the end of the war of 187071. With Map. From the Journals of the Head-quarters Staff. Translated by the late EM Jones, Maj.
Сторінка 92 - One of the best-known and coolest-headed of the metropolitan regiments, whose adjutant moreover has lately published an admirable collection of lectures addressed by him to the men of his corps.
Сторінка 91 - The work of Major von Blume in its English dress forms the most valuable addition to our stock of works upon the war that our press has put forth. Major Blume writes with a clear conciseness much wanting in many of his country's historians. Our space forbids our doing more than commending it earnestly as the most authentic and instructive narrative of the second section of the war that has yet appeared.
Сторінка 92 - Army of the North German Confederation : a Brief Description of its Organisation, of the Different Branches of the Service and their role in War, of its Mode of Fighting, etc.
Сторінка 91 - WARTENSLEBEN (Count H. von.)— THE OPERATIONS OF THE SOUTH ARMY IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1871. Compiled from the Official War Documents of the Head-quarters of the Southern Army. Translated by Colonel CH von Wright. With Maps. Demy 8vo.
Сторінка 91 - The work of translation has been well done ; the expressive German idioms have been rendered into clear, nervous English without losing any of their original force ; and in notes, prefaces, and introductions, much additional information has been given.
Сторінка 92 - ... precision. . . . We must, without delay, impress brain and forethought into the British Service ; and we cannot commence the good work too soon, or better, than by placing the two books (* The Operations of the German Armies' and 'Tactical Deductions') we have here criticised, in every military library, and introducing them as class-books in every tactical school.