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INDEX OF EXAMPLES FROM MILITARY HISTORY.


A.

Alaslar, August 25, 1877. PAGE
  Ammunition, expenditure of, 472

Albuera, 1811.
  Losses, 227

Amiens, November 27, 1870.
  Frontage, 237

Austerlitz.
  Attacking column, formation, 44

Azay, January 6, 1871.
  Masks, effect of, 112


B.

Baalon, September 17, 1870.
  Surprise, 331

Beaumont, August 30, 1870.
  Advance guard, deployment of, 231, 232
  Artillery, losses of the, 327
  Cavalry charge, 309
  Deployment of an advance guard, 231, 232
  Distribution in depth, 231, 232
  Flank attack, 357
  Frontage, 231, 232
  Frontal counter-attack, 437
  Ineffective rapid fire at short ranges, 162
  Line of platoons in columns of twos, 121
  Losses, artillery under infantry fire, 327
  Rencontre, 339
  Surprise, 331
  Woods, passage through, 333

Beaune la Bolande, November 28, 1870.
  Ammunition, expenditure and supply of, 470
    Shortage of, 469
  Short range fire, 153
  Withholding the fire, 152

Belmont, November 22, 1899.
  Night march, 351

Boer War—see South African War (1899-1902).

Busaco.
  Frontal counter-attack, 437

Buzanval, January 19, 1871.
  Ammunition, expenditure of, 470