Lessons of War as Taught by the Great Masters and Others: Selected and Arranged from the Various Operations of War |
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Common terms and phrases
action advance advantage allied Ambert Archduke Charles arms artillery assailant attack Austrian base battalions batteries battle of Königgrätz Bohemia bridge campaign cavalry centre Chap Charleroi circumstances Ciudad Rodrigo columns command communications concentrated corps cover decisive defile depôts detached difficulty direction distance divisions echelon effect Elbe enemy enemy's English favourable field fire flank fleet force formed fortified fortresses Frederick French army frontier ground guard guns Hamley horses Ibid important infantry intrenched camp invading Jomini La Haye Sainte land line of battle line of operations line of retreat manœuvre manoeuvring Marmont masses military mountains move movements Napier Napoleon necessary object oblique order obstacles occupied offensive officers Olmütz passage passed Portugal position possession principles Prussian railway rear reserve Rhine river road Russian army ships side siege skirmishers soldiers squadrons success superior tactics theatre troops victory Wellington wing yards
Popular passages
Page 311 - ... bent on the dark columns in their front ; their measured tread shook the ground ; their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation ; their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as foot by foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hilL...
Page 398 - In Sir John Moore's campaign," said the Duke of Wellington, " I can see but one error : when he advanced to Sahagun, he should have considered it as a movement of retreat, and sent officers to the rear to mark and prepare the halting places for every brigade.
Page 148 - I made signal to withdraw from action, intending to resume the attack the next morning. During the evening the commanding officers of the iron-clads came on board the flag-ship, and, to my regret, I soon became convinced of the utter impracticability of taking the city of Charleston by the force under my command. No ship had been exposed to the severest fire of the enemy over forty...
Page 311 - Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst of the smoke and rapidly separating itself from the confused and broken multitude, startled the enemy's heavy i Napier, VoL I. » Gleig. masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory : they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire, hastily endeavoured to enlarge their front, while a fearful discharge of grape from all their artillery whistled through the British ranks. Myers was killed ; Cole...
Page 333 - ... hold ready for movement portions of the wings thus covered, in order that they may take part in the action instead of remaining idle spectators of it. The fact cannot be concealed, however, that all these means are but palliatives; and the best thing for an army standing on the defensive is to know how to take the offensive at a proper time, and to take it.
Page 192 - Army Corps, the command aggregating 23,000 men — accompanied by its artillery, trains, animals, and baggage — from the Rapidan, in Virginia, to Stevenson in Alabama, a distance of 1,192 miles in seven days, crossing the Ohio river twice. 2. The transfer of the...
Page 311 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm weakened the stability of their order, their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the...
Page 148 - The Monitors and the Keokuk were able to get within easy range of Fort Sumter at distances varying from 550 to 800 yards, in which positions they were subjected, successively, to a tremendous concentrated fire from all the batteries on Sullivan's island, Morris island, Sumter, and others of the most formidable kind, and from guns of the heaviest calibre. Not being able to place the New Ironsides...
Page 528 - In other cases sand is unhealthy, from underlying clay or laterite near the surface, or from being so placed that water rises through its permeable soil from higher levels. Water may then be found within three or four feet of the surface ; and in this.
Page 218 - ... that the most difficult as well as the most certain of all the means the assailant may use to gain the victory consists in strongly supporting the first line with the troops of the second line, and these with the reserve, and in a proper employment of masses of cavalry and of batteries, to assist in striking the decisive blow at the second line of the enemy; for here is presented the greatest of all the problems of the tactics of battles.