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of Bazeilles; Noisseville)--Attack on Woods (Tanks; Gauche; Villers
Guislain; Messines)--Advancing from captured position--Defence of
Woods--Fighting patrols--Attack on Villages (Tanks; Light
Mortars)--Defence of Villages (Delaying Action; Providing a "funnel").
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VARIOUS ARMS . . . . . . . . . . . . .
164-177
Close combination of all arms required--Infantry (Extent and
limitations of mobility; the decisive arm in battle; the Rifle and
Bayonet; the Lewis gun; Ranges of rifles and machine guns; Grenades;
Hand Grenades; Rifle Grenades; Light Mortars; Machine
guns)--Mounted Troops (Cavalry; Mounted Rifles;
Cyclists)--Artillery--Light Artillery (Pack Guns; Pack Howitzers;
Horse Artillery: Field Guns; Field Howitzers)--Light Guns against
Aircraft and Tanks--Medium Artillery--(Medium Guns; Medium

Howitzers)--Heavy Artillery (Heavy Guns; Heavy
Howitzers)--Super-Heavy Artillery (Super-Heavy Guns; Super-Heavy
Howitzers)--Table of Artillery Ranges--Mortars and Light
Mortars--Royal Engineers--Tanks--Aircraft (Aeroplanes; Kite
Balloons)--Gas--Smoke.
OPERATION ORDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178-179
Orders should be written when possible--Should be "fool
proof"--Ambiguity to be avoided--The enemy are . . . My intention
is . . . You will--Initiative not to be hampered.
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181-189

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF BATTLES
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Defence of Sublician Bridge (Legendary) 77 Pass of Thermopylae (B.C.
480) 77 Battle of Arbela (B.C. 331) 32 ------ Cannae (B.C. 216) 14
Defeat of Varus by Arminius (A.D. 9) 156-157 Battle of Stamford
Bridge (Sept. 25, 1066) 12 ------ Hastings (Oct. 14, 1066) 11-12 ------
Blenheim (Aug. 2, 1704) 46-47 ------ Ramillies (May 23, 1706) 46, 91
------ Malplaquet (Sept. 11, 1709) 46 ------ Leuthen (Dec. 5, 1757) 46
Heights of Abraham (Sept. 13, 1759) 38 Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17,
1775) 38 ------ Ettlingen (July 9-10, 1796) 128 ------ Marengo (June 14,
1800) 47, 76 ------ Hohenlinden (Dec. 3, 1800) 128 ------ Austerlitz
(Dec. 2, 1805) 9-10, 47, 76, 125 ------ Jena (Oct. 14, 1806) 125 ------
Roliça (Aug. 17, 1808) 95, 127 ------ Coruña (Jan. 16, 1809) 127-128
------ Talavera (July 27-28, 1809) 92 Lines of Torres Vedras (Oct.-Nov.
1810) 82-83 Battle of Salamanca (July 22, 1812) 27, 78 ------ Vittoria
(June 21, 1813) 47 ------ Sauroren (July 28, 1813) 10 ------ Dresden
(Aug. 26-27, 1813) 47, 89 ------ Orthez (Feb. 27, 1814) 47 Defence of
Soissons (March 3, 1814) 41, 78 Battle of Toulouse (April 10, 1814) 47
----- Quatre Bras (June 16, 1815) 48 ------ Ligny (June 16, 1815) 8, 47,

90-91 ------ Waterloo (June 18, 1815) 8, 47-48, 76, 79 ------ Wavre
(June 18-19, 1815) 8, 91 ------ Balaclava (Oct. 26, 1854) 96
Shenandoah Valley Campaign (1862) 3, 4, 12, 117 Battle of McDowell
(May 8, 1862) 12 ------ Cross Keys (June 6, 1862) 117 Seven Days'
Battle (June-July, 1862) 14, 90 Battle of Gaines's Mill (June 27, 1862)
14, 65 ------ Malvern Hill (July 1-3, 1862) 15, 25-26, 65, 112, 117
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Battle of Evelington Heights (July 3, 1862) 112-113 ------ Bull Run (2)
(Aug. 28, 1862) 12 ------ Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862) 14, 15, 48 ------
Fredericksburg (Nov. 15, 1862) 14, 22, 38, 46, 92, 108, 139-140 ------
Chancellorsville (May 2-3, 1863) 12, 30, 48, 76, 95, 117 ------
Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) 15, 45, 61, 95-96, 117 ------ Sulphur
Springs (Oct. 12, 1863) 108 ------ Bristow Station (Oct. 14, 1863) 128
------ Rappahannock Station (Nov. 7, 1863) 151 ------ Chattanooga
(Nov. 25, 1863) 61-62 ------ Pleasant Hill (April, 1864) 59 ------ The
Wilderness (May 12, 1864) 90, 93, 97, 117, 125-126, 149-150, 158
------ Monocacy (July 8, 1864) 7 ------ Nashville (Dec. 15-16, 1864) 15
------ Appomattox (April 9, 1865) 15, 64 ------ Nachod (June 27, 1866)
18, 77, 110 ------ Sadowa (July 3, 1866) 96 ------ Spicheren (Aug. 6,
1870) 108-109, 158 ------ Worth (Aug. 6, 1870) 109, 158, 159 ------
Colombey (Aug. 14, 1870) 109-110 ------ Rezonville (Aug. 16, 1870)
96 ------ Gravelotte (Aug. 18, 1870) 158 ------ Verneville (Aug. 18,
1870) 63 ------ St. Privat (Aug. 18, 1870) 60 ------ Noisseville (Aug. 31,
1870) 159 ------ Sedan (Sept. 1, 1870) 16, 159 ------ Metz (Oct. 27,
1870) 16 ------ Chambord (Dec. 9, 1870) 138 ------ Plevna (Dec. 10,
1877) 60 ------ Peiwar Kotal (Dec. 2, 1878) 151 ------ Isandhlwana (Jan.
22, 1879) 78, 156 ------ Rorke's Drift (Jan. 22, 1879) 77-78, 156 ------
Tel-el-Kebir (Sept. 13, 1882) 153-154 ------ Tofrik (March 22, 1885)
156 ------ Toski (Aug. 3, 1889) 156 ------ Adowa (Feb. 26, 1896) 22
------ Stormberg (Dec. 10, 1899) 152 ------ Magersfontein (Dec. 10-11,
1899) 152 ------ Colenso (Dec. 15, 1899) 63 ------ Ramdam (Feb. 13,
1900) 118 ------ Paardeberg (Feb. 27, 1900) 16, 64 ------ Sannah's Post
(March 31, 1900) 118, 124 ------ Tweefontein