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  With counted cartridges, 164
  Withholding the, 151
  Wolozkoi's theory of the constant cone of misses, 173

FIRE AT SUCCESSIVE RANGES, 321

FIRE EFFECT, 167
  As regards time, 172
  At medium ranges, 151
  Influence of the elevation selected, on, 162
  On artillery when unlimbering, 326
  On close order formations, 102, 103
  On thin and dense skirmish lines, 77
  Standard of measurement of the, 168

FIRE FIGHT
  Attack, 368, 369, 461
  Defense, 427
  Machine guns, 283
  Superiority of fire in attack, 370-371

FIRE FOR EFFECT, 320

FIRE OF POSITION, 140
  Infantry, 85
  Machine guns, 85

FIRE WHILE IN MOTION, 92, 381
  Austrian experiments with, 92
  Examples of employment of, 93
  Losses when using, 92

FIRING LINE
  Advance in attack, 366
  Assembling the, 97
  Closing in, 97
  Dense, 75
  Prolonging the, 96
  Re-forming the, 97
  Reinforcing the, method of, 96
  Selection of line to be occupied by, 138
  Strength and density, 75
  Strength of the, 139
  Use of cover by the, 138

FIRING TRENCHES, 417, 419, 420

FIXING BAYONETS, 372
  Signal for, in assault, 377

FLAGS, Guidon, 62, 63

FLANK ATTACK
  Separation from holding attack, 361
  France, 455

FLANKS, protection of the, in defense, 425

FOREGROUND, division into sections, 411

FORMAL TACTICS, 12

FORMATIONS, 42
  Advance through woods, 332
  Assembly, 42, 454
  Austria, 49, 52, 58, 62, 69, 72
  Battalion, 67-73