The Special Operations of War: Comprising the Forcing and Defence of Defiles; the Forcing and Defence of Rivers in Retreat; the Attack and Defence of Open Towns and Villages; the Conduct of Detachments for Special Purposes; and Notes on Tactical Operations in Sieges |
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Andujar approach arriving artillery artillery fire assault Attack and Defence attack in front Austrian army bank barricades battle Baylen bayonet besieging army Biberach blank cartridge Bonaparte bridge brigade Calliano canister capture carry cavalry charge Chattanooga commander compelled concentrated Confederate Confederate army corps cover crossing danger Danube debouch defile deploy destroy detachment dike distance effect enable enemy enemy's columns enemy's guns enfilade entrance Enzersdorff favorable Federal fight flank FORCING AND DEFENCE ford fortified place French garrison infantry insurgents investment island Lobau main body manœuvre military movement Napoleon narrow defile occupy the heights operation outlet Peninsular War plunging fire point of passage position in rear possible prevent principal mass re-inforcements reserve retire retreat ridge river round shot rout Russians Second Samnite War seize shelter siege skirmishers strong success sudden suddenly surprise surrender tête de pont threatened three arms town troops turned usually village Wavre
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Page 1 - LIPPITT. The Special Operations of War : comprising the Forcing and Defence of Defiles ; the Forcing and Defence of Rivers, and the Passage of Rivers in Retreat ; the Attack and Defence of Open Towns and Villages ; the Conduct of Detachments for Special Purposes, and Notes on Practical Operations in Sieges. By FRANCIS J. LIPPITT, Ex-Colonel Second California Infantry, &c., &c.
Page 28 - War : comprising the Forcing and Defence of Defiles ; the Forcing and Defence of Rivers, and the Passage of Rivers in Retreat ; the Attack and Defence of Open Towns and Villages ; the Conduct of Detachments for Special Purposes, and Notes on Practical Operations in Sieges. By FRANCIS J. LIPPITT, Ex-Colonel Second California Infantry, &c., &c. With illustrative cuts.
Page 89 - ... well-armed men, but they possessed no artillery. The entire park was at the camp of Sablons; Bonaparte at once ordered the chef d'escadron, Murat, to bring it into Paris. With three hundred cavalry, this officer overtook a battalion which the insurgents had sent for a similar purpose, got in front of them, horsed the guns, and brought them to the Tuileries. Bonaparte posted his artillery and troops in the culs-de-sac of Dauphin, 1'Echelle...