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  Deliberately planned, comparison with rencontre, 334, 338
  Deployment, initial, 366
  Distances, 368
    Of supports from firing line, 99
  Duration of the, 351
  England, 459
  Envelopment, 356
  Examples
    Boer War, 340
    Russo-Japanese War, 340, 345
  Fire fight, 368
  Fixing bayonets, 372
  Formation for, of a battalion, 211, 212, 213
  France, 453
    Advance in mass formation, 455
    Group attack, 255
    Preparatory attack formation, 455
  Frontage, 234
    Army corps, 236
    Battalion, 236
    Brigade, 235, 236, 399
    Company, 96, 235, 236
  Gaps in the line, 239
  General rules for use of intrenching tools, 393
  Higher troop leading, duties, 366
  Holding, 357, 445
  Intrenching tools, use of, 387
  Infantry against dismounted cavalry, 313
  Italy, 451
  Japan, 463
    I. Army, 342
    Influences determining tactics in Russo-Japanese War, 341
  Launching the enveloping force, 359
  Lessons of the Boer War, 340
    Russo-Japanese War, 340
  Local reconnaissance in, 347
  Machine guns in, 365
  Methods of forming a battalion for (plates), 215, 216
  Minor troop leading, duties, 365
  Moment for making the assault, 374
  Normal attack, 203, 204, 205
  Number of men required, 234
  On an enemy deployed for defense, 340
  Orders, issue of, in rencontre, 36
  Over plain devoid of cover, 255
  Point of, 355
  Position of commander in, 399
  Preparation by infantry and artillery (France), 454
  Preparation of the, 346
  Preparatory position, advance into, 350
  Provisions of various regulations in re use of spade in, 392
  Pure frontal, 357
  Range finding instruments, employment in, 146
  Reconnaissance, 346
    In force, 347
  Rencontre, 333
    Compared with deliberately planned attack, 338
    Conduct of main body in a, 336