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  Losses, 36, 50, 51, 153, 332
    Percentage of, 188, 189, 227
    Produced by infantry and artillery fire, 167
      Long range fire, 176
    Relative, officers to men, 189, 190
    Under artillery fire, 324
  Machine guns, employment of, 260, 275, 283, 289, 290
  Masks, effect of, 120
  Mistakes caused by trumpet signals, 42
  Mixing of organizations, 195, 226
  Moral effect of a cavalry charge, 306
    Fire, 426
      Gen. Bennal's impressions at Wörth, 191
    On charging cavalry, 309
  Number of troops required for attack and defense, 234
  Passage through timber, 333
  Ranges, underestimation of, 142
  Removal of packs, 364
  Rencontre, 339
  Reserves, employment of, 340, 395, 396, 397
  Rushes, employment of, 93, 94, 95
    Length of, 89, 90
  Sand bags, use of, in attack, 344, 390
  Study of, 7-8
  Surprise, 208, 250, 252, 331, 340
  Surrender of British troops in Boer War, 192
  Telephone communication at Mukden, 247
  Temperature, effect of, 145
  Trumpet signals, mistakes caused by, 42
  United attack, necessity of, 402
  Use of spade in attack, 387, 388
  Value of, 8, 9, 10
  Void of the battlefield, 194
  Volleys, use of, 164
  Woods, passage through, 333
  Wounds
    Produced by cutting weapons, 384
    Character of, 128, 129

MINOR TACTICS, 12

MISSES, effect of; Wolozkoi's theory, 173

MITRAILLEUSE, 259

MIXING OF ORGANIZATIONS, 195, 226
  How prevented, 96, 97

MORAL EFFECT
  Cavalry charge, 306
  Counter-attack, 436
  Fire, 191, 227
    On charging cavalry, 309

MORAL FACTORS and discipline, 107, 108

MOUNTAIN TROOPS, 23

MOUNTAIN WARFARE, 23

MOUNTED INFANTRY, 25, 26, 27

MOUNTED MESSENGERS, use on battlefield, 246