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III. CAVALRY IN COMBAT AGAINST THE VARIOUS ARMS, MOUNTED AND DISMOUNTED
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In the mounted combat against cavalry1, every effort must be directed towards falling upon the enemy at full gallop2 in a serried3 mass, and thus to overthrow4 him. It is not sufficient to succeed in coming to blows with the enemy. His tactical formation must be destroyed, and he must be rendered incapable5 either of evolution or battle. And this must be done without losing cohesion6 or power of command. The material damage done to the enemy is a matter for the mounted pursuit, which need only be carried out by part of the troops, or, in default of this, by shrapnel.
For the conduct of the purely7 cavalry fight we should, in my opinion, rely upon men like Frederick the Great, Seydlitz, and the prominent Napoleonic cavalry leaders. In the relations of cavalry to cavalry, nothing has altered since their day, and the experiences of these men are, in their lessons, just as applicable to-day as at the time in which they lived. And what do they teach us?
It is the serried formation of the attack that is,[Pg 120] above all else, to be aimed at. Frederick the Great certainly changed his formation from the three-rank to the two-rank line. This was owing to his desire to render the troops more mobile, and in some way to compensate8 for the numerical superiority of his opponent. The longer his experience of war, however, the more did the king insist upon close formation in the attack, and to the end that the attack should lead not to a mêlée, but to the breaking up of the enemy by the impact of the solid mass. Napoleon, whose cavalry was not so proficient9 in the saddle, sought to obtain this result by greater depth, while in the infrequent cavalry fights of the present day it has become
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cavalry
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mobility
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proceeding
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deploy
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v.(军)散开成战斗队形,布置,展开 | |
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deployment
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extricate
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diligently
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thereby
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divergence
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acting
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entirely
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essentially
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infantry
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morale
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prospect
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severely
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elevation
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partially
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inevitable
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intelligible
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opposition
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superfluous
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adoption
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regiment
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upwards
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specially
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detailed
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considerably
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dealing
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peculiarities
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defensive
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imperative
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obstinate
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regain
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undertaking
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insufficient
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precipitately
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determined
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precepts
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delusion
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proximity
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哨兵,步兵( sentry的名词复数 ) | |
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sufficiently
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dribble
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