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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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h troops are shown bydotted lines on Map 16.) WHILE the 1st Cavalry Brigade is graduallyretiring from Hougoumont, dense masses ofGerman infantry are pouring into BrainelAlleud. The roads in the valley of the Hain River arepacked with long columns of men, horses, guns, andammunition wagons. The heavy howitzer battalion near Culots (Map 16),and the batteries of the 12th Artillery Regiment atWitterzee, still keep up their bombardment of NapoleonsWood. The distant sound of heavy, uninterrupted rifleand artillery fire in the direction of Mousty, Glabais, andBruyere shows that the 2nd and 3rd Army Corps areattacking the front of the British position. But just atpresent the German batteries in the neighbourhood of theHain are silent; for they are moving from the positionsthey occupied during the early stages of the fight to To Brussels >f 9 miles To Wa terloo i mile. ^To La Hulpe j?(To JLcl JTu-lpe, RjouLLwcuy Station, 3 miles. To Lcl Iftzlpe.,. a V 4. i RaJJLy/cLy \Stc tbonT V 3/t zruLes
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To Ouxitre Bras r1 miZe aruL JSTamiLr 2.0 miles THE FINAL BATTLE. 381 others, from which they can bring a more effective fire tobear on the British. While the German infantry and artillery are gettinginto position for delivering a grand attack, the cavalryare trying to find out exactly where the British havestationed themselves near Maison Roi and Plancenoit. Assoon as the 1st Cavalry Brigade retires, the German scoutspress forward towards the two villages. This advance issoon checked by the fire of the Lincolns and 1st Yorks,and in a short time the scouts send back word to theircommander that both villages are strongly held by theBritish. On receiving this intelligence, the general of the 4thArmy Corps directs his artillery to bombard both places,and also Napoleons Wood, from the north, in order toprepare the way for a general attack by his infantry. At 7 a.m., the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th ArtilleryRegiments open fire from the positions in which they areshown on Map 16, and present

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