 | 1837 - 928 páginas
...close order, is well adapted to give free scope to the natural intelligence of skirmishers The true perfection in skirmishing is, the preservation of order in disorder, and of system in confusion ; for the circumstances which accompany skirmishes of necessity produce almost always more or less... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - 1908 - 506 páginas
...companies, and battalions. ' The true summit of perfection,' says a veteran of the Light Brigade, ' is the preservation of order in disorder, and of system in confusion ; for the circumstances which accompany skirmishes of necessity produce, almost always, more or less... | |
 | Keith Neilson - 1988 - 240 páginas
...especial mark of the good skirmisher," wrote Colonel Gawler in 1837, "is ACTIVE INTELLIGENCE. . . . The true summit of perfection in skirmishing is, the...preservation of order in disorder and of system in confusion."58 By the 1880s and 1890s the chauvinistic note is much stronger. It is to be found in Captain... | |
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is the preservation of order in disorder, and of system in confusion ; for the circumstances which accompany skirmishes of necessity produce, almost always, more or less mixture, inversion, and general irregularity. In hot contests over large extents... 