A Précis of Modern Tactics: Comp. from the Works of Recent Continental Writers at the Topographical and Statistical Department of the War OfficeH.M. Stationery Office, 1873 - 243 sider |
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Side v - Rockets, &c., at present in use for Land and Sea Service, and on other war stores manufactured in the Royal Laboratory. 6*.
Side 53 - Rodrigo, and thirsted for spoil. Thus every spirit found a cause of excitement, the wondrous power of discipline bound the whole together as with a band of iron, and, in the pride of arms, none doubted their might, to bear down every obstacle that man could oppose to their fury.
Side 102 - German hussars, to charge the head of these columns ; these regiments, coming on at a canter, and increasing their speed as they advanced, rode headlong against the enemy, but, in a few moments, came upon the brink of a hollow cleft, which was not perceptible at a distance. The French, throwing themselves into squares, opened their fire; and colonel Arentschild, commanding the hussars, an officer whom forty years...
Side 53 - British, dashed with a hatred of the citizens on an old grudge ; and recent toil and hardship, with much spilling of blood, had made many incredibly savage ; for these things render the noble-minded indeed averse to cruelty, but harden the vulgar spirit.
Side 235 - Hand-book Dictionary for the Militia and Volunteer Services, Containing a variety of useful information, Alphabetically arranged. Pocket size, 3s. 6d.
Side 87 - English wall shouldered arms, an indescribable feeling rooted many of our men to the spot, they began to fire. The enemy's steady concentrated volleys swept our ranks ; decimated we turned round seeking to recover our equilibrium ; then three deafening cheers broke the silence of our opponents, at the third they were on us pushing our disorganized flight But to our great surprise, they did not push their advantage oeyond a hundred yards, retiring calmly to their lines to await a second attack.
Side 235 - WAR, 1870-71. FIRST PART :— HISTORY OF THE WAR TO THE DOWNFALL OF THE EMPIRE. FIRST SECTION :— THE EVENTS IN JULY. Authorised Translation from the German Official Account at the Topographical and Statistical Department of the War Office, by Captain FC H.
Side 55 - Some of the men struck down had got up a good way on the slope ; others were so newly come to the top of the bank that they fell back dead and dying into the channel of the river ; but all who were not struck down moved forward. Some of the clusters into which our men had gathered were eight or ten deep ; and the round shot, tearing cruelly through and through, mowed down so many of our devoted soldiery that several times the crowd left standing was thinned. But only for a moment ; because that singular...
Side 4 - The captain commanding a company is the only officer between whom and the soldier a personal relation exists in peace time. He knows every individual soldier in the most intimate manner, and the soldier, on his part, is aware that his captain so knows him. It is upon this relation that the uncommon influence rests which he, above all other officers, has over the individual soldier, as well as over the whole company. The soldier sees his nearest home in his company, and he has, under all circumstances,...