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Title: How armies fight
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Gruggisberg, Frederick Gordon (Sir) Gillmore, Parker
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Military art and science
Publisher: London T. Nelson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the enemys shells ceased tofall around the stockade. My captain turned sharply to the sergeant standing next to him. Bring up the company, Murphy, he said. Bugler,sound the ■ alarm. Sergeant Murphy dashed off along the path leading to the shelter where our men were lying, and the notes ofthe bugle rang loud and clear through the trees. At thatmoment a mass of blue figures appeared at the edge ofRuart and Sclage Woods, and swept forward towards thebrook. Those of us who were already at the stockadeopened fire on them; but we were far too few in numberto check their advance in the slightest. Like a huge wavebreaking over a stranded spar on the seashore, they surgedover the line of obstacles between the woods and thebrook. As they did so there was a sound of rushing feetfrom behind, and our men came dashing up. In a momentthey were at the loopholes, blazing away for all they wereworth. The whole wood now echoed to the continual roarof musketry, as we and the Irish Rifles poured a rapid,
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THE IRISH BRIGADE AT WORK. 301 independent fire on the enemy. After the strain of lyingfor four long hours doing nothing under the Germanartillery fire, our men were only too anxious to relievetheir pent-up energy by blazing away as fast as theycould. Too fast some of them, and I had to check severalin my half-company who had opened their magazines, andwere proceeding to empty them at the enemy. That couldnot be allowed till the latter reached the last hundredyards—until then, load and fire, load and fire in theordinary way. The Germans were badly shaken, and seemed to hangback for a moment. Then another line swept out of thewoods, and carried the first forward until they bothtumbled into the little hollow in which the brook runs.Here they took shelter for a moment, and then madeanother dash forward. But our fire was too hot, and werolled them back into the bed of the stream, from whichthey presently opened a steady rifle fire on us. We took the opportunity of this check to get our

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