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  Elevations and points of aim, 165
    To be used in warding off cavalry charges, 310
  Employment of infantry, 132
  Expedients for minimizing the effect of hostile, 118
  Flanking, 254
  Formula for determining favorable range for firing against hill positions, 183
  Hits obtained by various marksmen (table), 171
  Hostile, expedients for minimizing effect of, 118
    Formations suitable under, 120, 121
  Hurried, effect of, 162
  Increasing difficulties in adjusting hostile artillery fire, 119
  Indirect, 184
  Infantry, 126
    Against charging cavalry, 308
    And machine gun, relative value of, 265-267
    Employment of, 132
  Influences affecting accuracy of, 173
  Influence of the ground on efficacy of, 179
  Kinds of, 157
    Austria, 449
    France, 455
    Italy, 451
    Japan, 463
    Provisions of various regulations, 158-160
    Russo-Japanese War, 157
    To be used in warding off a cavalry charge, 310
  Long range, 148, 150-153, 176
  Losses produced by long range fire, 176
  Machine gun—see Machine Guns
  Marksmanship, effect of, in collective, 169
  Misses
    Effect of, 173
    Wolozkoi's theory of the constant cone of, 173
  Moral effect of, 191, 227
    On charging cavalry, 309
  Number of rounds to be expended to accomplish a certain result, 172
  Oblique, effect of, against shielded batteries, 324
  Observation of, 167
  Pauses in, 155
  Preparation, 149
  Provisions of various regulations in re kinds of, 158
    Time for opening, 153
  Rafale, 164
  Rate of, 160
    At various ranges, 162
    Versus waste of ammunition, 161
  Ricochets, effect of, 185
  Rifle-rests, influence of, 178
  Superiority of, in defense, 427
  Time for opening, 147
    General rules, 155
    On charging cavalry, 308
    Provisions of various regulations, 153
  Training, influence of, on efficacy of, 168
  Trial volleys, 164
  Volley, value of, 157, 163