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1st Brigade 1st Cavalry Division 2nd Brigade 2nd Cavalry 2nd Infantry Divisions 2nd Line Transport 3rd Brigade 4th Brigade 5th Cavalry 5th Cavalry Brigade Abbottabad action Adige advance guard Army Corps attack Attock Aurangabad Austrians battle bivouac Cavalry Brigade Chenab columns concentrated contact squadron Corps Cavalry cover crossing Danube defile Delhi depôt Derband detachments direction Donauwörth enemy enemy's Cavalry entrenched Eugène fight flank force front frontier Godavery ground guns Gurgaon Haripur Haro Haro river Hasan Abdal Headquarters hills hold hostile Cavalry Hyderabad Independent Cavalry Indus Jhelum Jhelum river Jumna left bank main body manœuvre miles mounted troops move movement Napoleon numbers object occupied Officer Commanding operations organisation Osoppo outposts Palmanova patrols Peschiera position of readiness possible rear reconnaissance reconnoitring ridge right bank river road rôle Royal Horse Artillery scouts Second Army sent situation Sketch Southern strategical supplies tactical Torbela viâ
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Page 225 - The Commander of the Forces has observed with concern the extreme bad conduct of the troops at a moment when they are about to come into contact with the enemy, and when the greatest regularity and the best conduct are the most requisite.
Page 227 - The Commander of the Forces is tired of giving Orders, which are never attended to. He therefore appeals to the honour and feelings of the army he commands, and if those are not sufficient to induce them to do their duty, he must despair of succeeding by any other means.
Page 225 - Army must be arduous, and such as to call for the exertion of qualities the most rare and valuable in a Military body. These are not bravery alone, but patience and constancy under fatigue and hardship, obedience to command, sobriety, firmness, and resolution in every difficult situation in which they may be placed.
Page 227 - ... upon their keeping their divisions and marching with their regiments^ that those who stop in villages or straggle on the march...
Page 226 - Commanding Officers will adopt such measures, " both on the march and in the cantonments, as will ensure it. " It is very probable that the Army will shortly have to meet the " Enemy ; and the Commander of the Forces has no doubt that they " will eagerly imitate the worthy example which has been set them " by the Cavalry, on several recent occasions, and particularly in the " affair of yesterday ; in which Brigadier-general Stuart, with an " inferior force, charged and overthrew one of the best corps...
Page 227 - Forces has the most perfect confidence in (( their valour, and that it is only necessary to " bring them to close contact with the Enemy '" in order to defeat them ; and a defeat, if it be , \ , " complete, as he trusts it will be> ;will, in a (( great measure, end their labours. " The General has no other caution to " give them, than not to throw away their fire " at the Enemy's skirmishers, merely because " they fire at them ; but to reserve it till they
Page 226 - Salamanca which he did not foresee and was not prepared for ; and, as far as he is a judge, they have answered the purposes for which they were intended. " When it is proper to fight a battle he will do it, and he will choose the time and place he thinks most fit ; in the...
Page 225 - He desires that they may be again read at the head of every company of the Army ; he can add nothing but his determination to execute them to the fullest extent. " He can feel no mercy towards Officers who neglect, in times like these, essential duties ; or towards soldiers who injure the country they are sent to protect.
Page 227 - no occasion to proceed to such extremities if the Officers did their " duty : as it is chiefly from their negligence, and from the want of ** proper regulations in the regiments, that crimes and irregularities are committed, in quarters and upon the march.
Page 8 - He was so unimaginative that he could not see that the tactics of the past were as dead as mutton. We are told he held that the 'role of cavalry on the battlefield will always go on increasing', and that he believed bullets had 'little stopping power against the horse".