Achievements of Cavalry

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G. Bell & sons, 1897 - Cavalry - 260 pages
 

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Page 244 - A characteristic of the present age is division of work, and the substitution of skilled for unskilled labor ; and nowhere are its effects more marked than in the organization of armies. Thus, the common soldier, the mere machine of pedantic military writers — the "legs...
Page 35 - the battle is completely lost, but it is only four o'clock and there is time...
Page 39 - Horsemanship was all important and, 'we have one incalculable advantage which no other nation possesses in that our officers are able to hunt and than which, combined with study, there is during peace no better practice.
Page 16 - Another attestation to the same purport was signed by Major-General Sentheresky, who stated; —" This remarkable action of the two Light " Dragoon squadrons, encouraged by their brave " officers, who, despising the greatness of the " danger and the multitude of the enemy, gave to " this astonishing affair an essential decision." 1794 Major-General Prince Schwarzenburg signed a similar certificate, and added;—
Page 195 - ... confusion and stagnation made themselves felt from the first. The boldest plans would have been impotent. The machine refused to work. Some of the telegraphic cries of anguish which flowed into the French Ministry of War, upon all the wires, from helpless subordinates, are well known : " 900 reserve troops here, I do not know what to do with them.
Page vi - This is to be accounted for, so far as our cavalry is concerned, by the fact that though it had many opportunities of achieving success in the Peninsular War, yet the leading of its commanders, being more indicative of courageous hearts than of well-stored minds, was often barren of results.
Page 241 - How absurd is the manner of training our Dragoons! When mounted they are taught that no infantry can resist the impetuosity of their charges ; when drilling * " Considerations sur 1'Art de la Guerre.
Page 28 - Viso (Vesulus) southward, on the south by the Mediterranean, and on the east by the river Macra. It was a country almost entirely mountainous; for spurs from the Alps and Apennines occupy the whole tract between the mountain-ranges and the river Po, as far down as long. 9°. Liguria...
Page 244 - The cavalry soldier should never be dismounted to fight if you expect him to ride over masses of infantry, and that he should be educated to believe that nothing can withstand a well-executed cavalry charge.

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