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  Infantry screen, 327
  Line, distance from infantry line in defense, 415
  Losses, Franco-German War, 20
    Percentage of, 188
    Under infantry fire, 326, 327
  Percussion shell (Model 96), 115
  Percussion shrapnel, 111
  Positions in defense, 414
  Preparatory action (France) in attack, 454
  Progressive fire, 320
  Searching fire, 321
  Shields, protection afforded by, 324
  Shrapnel, 112, 113
    Effect of (table), 114, 122
  Sweeping fire, 321
  Time required for adjusting the fire, 119
  Time shell (Model 96), 116
    (Model 98), 118
  Time shrapnel, 112, 113
  Unlimbering under infantry fire, 326
  Zone fire, 320

ASSAULT, 373
  Austria, 449
  Conduct of the, 374
  Decision to make an, 373
  England, 462
  Examples, 376
  Fire support, 379
  Fire while in motion, 381
  France,457
  Guidons, 355
  Italy, 452
  Japan, 464
  Moment for making the, 374
  Pursuit after successful, 385
  Successful, conduct after, 385
  Trumpet signal, fix bayonet, 377
  Unsuccessful, conduct after, 386

ASSAULTING DISTANCE, 385, 424

ASSEMBLY FORMATIONS, 42
  France (carré de division), 454

ATTACK, 329
  Abridged, 330
  Advance of the firing line, 366
  Advance guard, conduct of the—in a rencontre, 334
  Advanced troops, 349
  Assault, 352, 373, 374, 399
  Assaulting distance, 385, 424
  Austria, 448
  Brigade, frontage of a, in, 399
  Column, 44, 45
  Comparison with defense, 329
  Conditions upon which success depends, 345
  Conduct of the, 365
  Coöperation of infantry and artillery, 351, 352, 354
  Decision to assault, 373