A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry

7. When possible to avoid it, _a field battery should not be opposed to a battery of position_, or, generally, a battery of light guns to one of heavy guns. For even when the nu...

Infantry may advance in line and attack cavalry safely, provided its flanks are protected. Before a long line of infantry, cavalry must retreat, or be destroyed by its fire. In...

6. When cavalry has routed cavalry, the victorious squadrons should at once charge in flank _the infantry protected by the cavalry just beaten_. The great Condé, when only twent...

3. The rule laid down in the Tactics (Par. 143, Skirmishers), directing the skirmishers, in rallying on the square, to "come to a ready without command, and fire upon the enemy;...

13. Where the ground affords no shelter, and where the position of the guns is not likely to be changed, it may be worth while to cover them by an _épaulement_ or breastwork, so...

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4. Great as may be the advantages of a large force of regular cavalry of the line, there were serious objections to its being raised at the opening of the late war.