INDEX OF
EXAMPLES FROM MILITARY HISTORY.
- A.
- Aiaslar, August 25, 1877. PAGE
- Ammunition, expenditure of 472
- Albuera, 1811.
- Losses 227
- Amiens, November 27, 1870.
- Frontage 237
- Austerlitz.
- Attacking column, formation 44
- Azay, January 6, 1871.
- Masks, effect of 112
- B.
- Baalon, September 17, 1870.
- Surprise 331
- Beaumont, August 30, 1870.
- Advance guard, deployment of 231, 232
- Artillery, losses of the 327
- Cavalry charge 309
- Deployment of an advance guard 231, 232
- Distribution in depth 231, 232
- Flank attack 357
- Frontage 231, 232
- Frontal counter-attack 437
- Ineffective rapid fire at short ranges 162
- Line of platoons in columns of twos 121
- Losses, artillery under infantry fire 327
- Rencontre 339
- Surprise 331
- Woods, passage through 333
- Beaune la Bolande, November 28, 1870.
- Ammunition, expenditure and supply of 470
- Ammunition, Shortage of 469
- Short range fire 153
- Withholding the fire 152
- Belmont, November 22, 1899.
- Night march 351
- Boer War—see South African War (1899-1902).
- Busaco.
- Frontal counter-attack 437
- Buzanval, January 19, 1871.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 470
- C.
- Casablanca, 1907.
- Effect of infantry fire on charging cavalry 308
- Chagey, January 11, 1871.
- Short range fire 153
- Champigny, November 30, 1870.
- Ammunition, expenditure and supply 471
- Influence of the ground on efficacy of fire 183
- Jägers, employment of 23
- Chevilly, November 30, 1870.
- Fire while in motion 93
- Chlum (Königgrätz), 1866.
- Flank attack 357
- Colenso, December 15, 1899.
- Artillery under infantry fire 326
- Boer position, location of 410
- Density of battle line 240
- Insufficient reconnaissance 340
- Losses 189
- Officers 190
- Moral effect of fire 152, 426
- Pure frontal attack 340
- Reconnaissance, lack of local 249
- Reserves, use of 340
- Surprise 340
- Withholding the fire, moral effect 152
- Colombey, August 14, 1870.
- Attack on Aubigny 405
- Attack On the “Tannenwäldchen” 403
- Frontage 237
- Losses 195
- Mixing of organizations 195
- Moral effect of fire 199
- Coulmiers, November 9, 1870.
- Ammunition supply 484
- Reserve, employment of the 395
- Coulomiers, December 15, 1870.
- Withholding the fire 152
- Custozza, 1866.
- Battle lines, density of 240
- Cavalry charge 302
- Cavalry charge Moral effect of a 200
- Reserves, employment of 396
- D.
- Daix, November 26, 1870.
- Ammunition, supply of 484
- Datshishiao, July 24, 1904.
- Bayonet fight 382
- Diamond Hill, 1900.
- Frontage 238
- Doornkop, May 29, 1900.
- Opening fire 150
- E.
- Etoges, 1814.
- Infantry versus cavalry 313
- F.
- Franco-German War (1870-71).
- Ammunition, expenditure and supply of 468
- Close order formations, impossibility of employing, in first line 102
- Fire, efficacy of 176
- Frontages 237
- Losses among officers, percentage of (by arm) 20
- Officers, number of, per 1000 men 51
- Proportion of the various arms 19
- Fuchau, 1905.
- Local reconnaissance 250
- G.
- Garcia Hernandez, 1812.
- Cavalry charge 309
- Gitschin, 1866.
- Trumpet signal, misunderstanding caused by 42
- Gorni Bugarov, January 1, 1878.
- Frontal counter-attack 438
- Short range fire 153
- Gorni Dubniac, October 24, 1877.
- Ammunition, expenditure and supply of 473
- Assault, inability to 409
- Fire, ineffectiveness of uphill 183
- Intrenching in attack 389
- Isolated attacks with inadequate forces 223
- Perseverance under fire 387
- Reserves, deployment of 369
- Rushes, advance by 95
- Signal for attack, failure of 361
- Strength, relative, of opposing forces 234
- Gravelotte (St. Privat).
- Advance to the battlefield 67
- Ammunition, expenditure 471
- Artillery under infantry fire 326
- Assault 376
- Assaulting distance 385
- Attack made by the III. Army Corps 398
- Battle lines, density of 240
- Close order formations under fire 103
- Columns of twos, line of 121
- Companies, consolidation of 36
- Concentration for action 210
- Density of battle lines 240
- Enfilade fire 254
- Envelopment 361
- Fire,
- Artillery under infantry 326
- Close order formation under 103
- Columns of twos, line of, under 121
- Enfilade 254
- Long range 152
- Pause 156
- Perseverance under 108, 387
- Uphill, ineffectiveness of 183
- Flanking fire 254
- Infantry fire, artillery under 326
- Intrenchments, construction of 388
- Losses, aggregate and detail 188
- Losses, At various ranges 176
- Losses, Franz regiment 195
- Losses, Officers 33, 51, 190
- Lull in the fight at Point du Jour 156
- March formations 67
- Mitrailleuses, employment of 260
- Mixing of organizations 196
- Officers, losses among 33, 51, 190
- Organizations, mixing of 196
- Ranges, underestimation of 142
- Reconnaissance, relaxing in the 347
- Reserves 398
- Stragglers 196
- Uphill fire against trenches, ineffectiveness of 183
- H.
- Haicheng, 1904.
- Advanced positions, several lines of 412
- Hallue, December 23, 1870.
- Envelopment 6
- Attempted, by first line 360
- Frontage 232
- l’Hay, September 30, 1870.
- Fire while in motion 93
- Helmstedt, July 25, 1866.
- Change of front 220
- Hühnerwasser, 1866.
- Ammunition found on the battlefield 469
- K.
- Karahassankioi, August 23, 1877.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 472
- Katzbach, August 26, 1813.
- Attack in line 108
- Kazeljevo.
- Frontal counter-attack 438
- Kesselsdorf, 1745.
- Frontal counter-attack 437
- Losses 189
- Kinchau, November 26, 1904.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 474
- Assaulting distance 385
- Kolin, 1757.
- Losses 189
- Königgrätz, July 3, 1866.
- Adjustment of fire facilitated by a poplar 120
- Advance to the battlefield 205
- Battle lines, density of 240
- Cavalry charge, moral effect of a 306
- Flank attack 357, 359
- Jägers, employment of 23
- Trumpet signal, misunderstanding caused by 42
- L.
- Ladon, November 26, 1870.
- Envelopment 361
- Ladonchamps (near Metz).
- Artillery fire, ineffectiveness of 120
- Ladysmith, 1900.
- Supports 98
- Le Bourget, October 30, 1870.
- Assaulting distance 385
- Columns of twos, line of 121
- Rushes 93, 94
- Le Mans.
- Battalions, strength of 36
- Gatling guns 260
- Officers, number present for duty 50
- Liao Yang, 1904.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 473, 474
- Battle lines, density of 239
- Fire 155
- Frontage 239
- Intrenching tools, use of, in attack 392
- Machine guns 291
- Strength of opposing forces 341
- Surprise 208, 250
- Linshinpu, 1904.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 473
- Lisaine.
- Frontage 228
- Loigny, December 2, 1870.
- Advance to the battlefield 67
- Counter-attack, 433, 435, 436
- Intrenching tools, lack of 388
- Wheel executed by Kottwitz’ Brigade 220
- Lovtcha, September 1, 1877.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 472
- Mixing of organizations 197
- Registration mark for artillery fire 120
- Rushes 95
- Strength of opposing forces 234
- M.
- Magersfontain, December 11, 1899.
- Boer position, location of 410
- Convalescence of wounded 129
- Dummy trenches 421
- Fire surprise 133
- Frontage 227, 238
- Lack of reinforcements 227
- Losses 189
- Officers 190
- Perseverance under fire 137, 387
- Pure frontal attack 340
- Reconnaissance, lack of local 249
- Reinforcements, lack of 227
- Reserves, employment of 340
- Withholding the fire, moral effect of 152
- Maida.
- Frontal counter-attack 437
- Marengo, 1800.
- Attacking column, formation of 45
- Mars-la-Tour—see Vionville.
- Minden, 1757.
- Infantry versus cavalry 313
- Modder River, November 28, 1899.
- Boer position, location of 410
- Fire fight 132, 371
- Moral effect of fire 426
- Opening fire at long range 150
- Perseverance under fire 132
- Pure frontal attack 340
- Reconnaissance, lack of 252, 340
- Surprise 252, 340
- Montoy (Noisseville).
- Surprise 332
- Mont Valérien, January 19, 1871.
- Ammunition, shortage of 469
- Mukden, 1905.
- Advance in thin skirmish lines 76, 77
- Assault with cold steel 134
- Attack, mode of Japanese 343, 344
- Battle lines, density of 239, 240
- Bayonet fights 382
- Construction of cover in attack 344
- Frontage 239
- Gaps in the attacking line 239
- Machine guns 292
- Perseverance under fire 348
- Reserves 395, 396
- Sand bags, use of, in attack 344
- Skirmish lines, thin 76, 77
- Strength of opposing forces 341
- Telephone communication 247
- N.
- Nachod, 1866.
- Bayonet attack 153
- Concentration 209
- Frontage 231
- Losses 153
- Mixing of organizations 196
- Rencontre 339
- Nicholson’s Neck, October 24, 1899.
- Crawling 87, 88
- Volleys, ineffectiveness of 157
- Noisseville.
- Bayonet fight 382
- Counter-attack 429, 433
- Flank attack 358
- Intrenching tools, lack of 388
- Losses 332
- Reconnaissance 253
- Surprise 331
- Nuits, December 18, 1870.
- Abridged attack 330
- O.
- Oerrshikiatsy (Shaho), 1904.
- Intrenching tools, use of, in attack 388
- Orleans, December 3, 1870.
- Counter-attack 436
- Strength of German battalions 36
- P.
- Paardeberg, February 18, 1900.
- Advance without firing 149
- Convalescence of wounded 129
- Crawling 87
- Distribution in depth, lack of 238
- Frontage 76, 227
- Intrenching tools, use of, in attack 388
- Opening fire at long range 150
- Reinforcements, lack of 227
- Skirmish lines, thin 76
- Pieters Hill, February 27, 1900.
- Fire support 380
- Frontage 238
- Machine guns 289, 298
- Plevna, 1877.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 472
- Attacks with inadequate forces 222, 223
- Bayonet fights 382
- Combat impressions 191
- Fire, opening 152
- Fire, Uphill, ineffectiveness of 183
- Fire, While in motion 93
- Improvised units 197, 198
- Intrenching tools, use of 388
- Isolated attacks with inadequate forces 222, 223
- Knapsacks, loss of 364
- Losses among officers 190
- Losses At various ranges 152, 177
- Mixing of organizations 197
- Officers, losses among 190
- Opening fire at long range 152
- Ranges, underestimation of 142
- Reserves, deployment of 369
- Reserves, Employment of 395
- Rushes 95
- Strength of opposing forces 234
- Underestimation of ranges 142
- Volleys 158
- Podol, June 26, 1866.
- Jägers 23
- Poplar Grove, March 7, 1900.
- Advance in attack formation 206
- Attack formation of a brigade 207
- Frontage 238
- R.
- Russo-Japanese War.
- Advance in thin skirmish lines 76, 77
- Ammunition, expenditure and supply of 473
- Formations under artillery fire 321, 322
- Frontage 238
- Infantry attack 137, 340
- Local reconnaissance 250
- Machine guns 290
- Rushes 89
- Strength of opposing forces 341
- Wounds, character of 128
- Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 472
- Attacks 222, 223
- Frontal counter-attacks 438
- Losses 176
- S.
- St. Privat—see Gravelotte.
- St. Quentin, January 19, 1871.
- Attack on Grugies, isolated 403
- Bayonet attack 103
- Sandepu, 1904.
- Losses among officers 190
- Sapignies.
- Cavalry charge 302
- Scheinovo, January 9, 1878.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 94, 95, 473
- Cavalry charge 303
- Losses 94, 95
- Rushes 94, 95
- Simultaneous attack 361
- Sedan.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 469
- Cavalry charge 308, 310, 311
- Losses among officers 51
- Mixing of organizations 197
- Packs, removal of 469
- Shaho, 1904.
- Advanced positions 348
- Artillery, capture of 326
- Attack formation of a brigade 343
- Battle lines, density of 239
- Frontage 239
- Infantry attack 343
- Intrenching tools, use of 388
- Machine guns 292
- Reserves 396
- Shiliho, 1905.
- Attack 344
- Rushes 90
- Shipka Pass, 1877.
- Short range fire 153
- Skalitz, 1812.
- Jägers 23
- Mixing of organizations 196
- Slivnica, November 17 and 19, 1885.
- Losses at long ranges 177
- Solferino, 1859.
- Bayonet fight 382
- Battle lines, density of 240
- Soor, 1745.
- Losses 189
- Frontal counter-attack 437
- Soor, 1866.
- Jägers 23
- South African War (1899-1902).
- Assaults 379
- Crawling 87, 88
- Front, overextension of 238
- Lessons gained from the 88, 340
- Machine guns 289
- Mounted infantry 25
- Rushes 88
- Skirmish lines, thin 75
- Surrenders 192
- Wounds, character of 129
- Spicheren.
- Advance in assembly formation 210
- Ammunition, expenditure of 469
- Attack, orders for 349
- Change of front 220
- Concentration 210
- Counter-attack 436
- Envelopment 357, 358, 360
- Formation in echelon and in line 74, 226
- Front, change of 220
- Frontage 226
- Knapsacks, loss of 364
- Losses 195
- Mixing of organizations 196, 226
- Orders for attack 349
- Stragglers 195
- Spionskop, 1900.
- Crawling 88
- Losses at short ranges, insignificant 178, 189
- Reserves 340
- T.
- Tagliamento, 1797.
- Attack formations 45
- Tashkessen, January 1, 1878.
- Ammunition, expenditure of 473
- Frontal counter-attack 438
- Tel el Kebir, 1882.
- Night attack 233
- Terrayama (Temple Hill), October 11, 1904.
- Attack 343
- Bayonet fight 382
- Intrenching tools, use of 388
- Tobitschau, 1866.
- Cavalry charge 313
- Towan, 1904.
- Perseverance under fire 348
- Trautenau, 1866.
- Bayonet attack 153
- Jägers 23
- Packs, removal of 364
- Rencontre 339
- Trumpet signal, misunderstanding caused by 42
- Tsinortun, August 26, 1904.
- Counter-attack 435
- Tugela (Pieters Hill), 1900.
- Rushes 95
- Tuminling Pass, 1904.
- Losses, officers 190
- V.
- Vauxchamps, February 14, 1814.
- Infantry versus cavalry 313
- Villepion, December 1, 1870.
- Holding wavering troops 382
- Intrenching tools, use of 388
- Villermain-Cravant, 1870.
- Flank march along hostile front 360
- Villiers, October 30, 1870.
- Influence of the ground on the efficacy of fire 183
- Vimiero.
- Frontal counter-attack 437
- Vionville.
- Abridged attack 330
- Advance in broad formations 67
- Ammunition, expenditure and supply of 469, 470
- Artillery fire diverted by infantry 327
- Cavalry charge, 302, 304, 311, 313
- Moral effect of 302
- Preparation by artillery fire 313
- Close order formations, losses in 102, 103
- Concentration 209
- Cover, use of 257
- Direction of retreat 440
- Flanking fire 254
- Losses in close order formations 102, 103
- Officers 190
- Masks 120
- Moral effect of a cavalry charge 302, 303
- Packs, removal of 364
- Rencontre 339
- Reserves, employment of 397
- Retreat 440
- Trumpet signal, misunderstanding caused by 42
- United attack, necessity of a 403
- Volley fire, ineffectiveness of 164
- Vouziers, December 15, 1870.
- Surprise 331
- W.
- Wafangu, June 15, 1904.
- Attack 341
- Communication 247
- Distribution in depth, excessive 223
- Envelopment 341, 359
- Wagram, 1809.
- Attacking column, formation of 44, 45
- Waterberg, 1904.
- Assaulting guidons 355
- Machine guns, employment of 283
- Waterloo, 1815.
- Attacking column, formation of 44, 45
- Battle lines, density of 240
- Concentration 209
- Frontal counter-attack 437
- Weiszenburg, August 2, 1870.
- Losses among officers 51, 190
- Masks 120
- Wörth, August 6, 1870.
- Assault 376
- Assaulting distance 385
- Attack, orders to 349
- Battle lines, density of 240
- Cavalry charge 310, 311
- Change of front 220
- Colors 69
- Concentration 209
- Counter-attack 433
- Distance, elimination of, during advance 72
- Distribution in depth 224
- Fire while in motion 93
- Interference by the commander-in-chief 248
- Losses 227
- Officers 51
- Relative, officers and men 190
- Mixing of organizations 196
- Moral effect of fire 191
- Officers, losses among 51
- Orders to attack 349
- Packs, removal of 364
- Panic 440
- Passage through woods 333
- Reserve, employment of the 395
- Stragglers 196
- Supports 224
- Uphill fire 183
- Woods, passage through 254
- Y.
- Yalu, 1904.
- Ammunition, expenditure and supply of 473
- Attack 341
- Bayonet fight 382
- Losses, officers 190
- Machine guns 291
- Yangtsuling, 1904.
- Attack 343
- Yoshirei, July 31, 1904.
- Formations under artillery fire 321, 323
- Yuhuntun, 1905.
- Perseverance under fire 348
- Yuputz, March 1, 1905.
- Sand bags, use of 390
- Yushuling, 1904.
- Intrenching tools, use of 388
- Z.
- Zella.
- Counter-attack 433