Hasty IntrenchmentsHenry S. King & Company, 1872 - 94 páginas Looks at fortifications and intrenchments on the battlefield and their effects on battle. |
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abatis advance advantage approach armed Army Artillery attack Austrians bastions battalions batteries battle Brigade buildings camp carried Cavalry centre closed Colonel columns command companies completed constructed cover cross cubic feet defence Demy 8vo detachments direct ditch division earth enemy enemy's enfilade Engineers epaulments excavation exposed fact favour field of battle fire flanks foot force formed fortified front German give ground guns hand Hasty Intrenchments houses important Infantry intrenchments latter length less line of battle means military minutes necessary object occupied offensive officers operations parapet placed points position possible posts principal protected Prussian rank rear redoubts regiments remain require reserve resistance rested retreat riflemen road says serve shelter shelter-trenches shovels shown side situated slope soldiers space sufficient tactical taken Translated trench troops village wing wood yards
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Página 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.
Página 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.
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Página 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.
Página 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.