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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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o contact withour 1st Cavalry Brigade. There are also frequent bursts of firing to the south-west and along the front of the false position. Theseare called forth by daring German patrols and scouts, who,in trying to find out for their commander-in-chief whereour army is posted, are continually coming into collisionwith our cavalry and mounted infantry. It is now nearly nine oclock. Having completed oursurvey of the surrounding country, we descend from BoisHill with the intention of taking a walk around theGuards intrenchments. (You can now shut Map 8. Open Map 9, and imagine that we arewalking around the trenches which are shown on it. This map hasbeen enlarged to about four times the scale of Map 8, in order to allowthe smaller details of the fortifications to be shown. Keep one fingeror a slip of paper in this map, so that you will not have the worry oflooking for it when you want to refer to it.) After a walk of half a mile through the large orchards /4 mile to i\- Napoleons Wood4
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200 400 600 QOO IOOO I&ilf cz. mile ->» 1 mite to \ Promellcs~ KEY TO MAP 4i Company of Infantry (about 100 men). i \ „ „ „ tn tranches. A,B.c,§c These Letters give the Names of the Com-panies. □ The Tool Cart of a Battalion. -g. The Ammunition Cart of a Battalion. Paths made through Hedges and, Fences. -> Direction in which the Troops move during the Battle. blue $»- Direction of the German Attack. ;_=. Battery of Artillery (6 gvms). l^\ „ „ „ intrenched. -z- -=. Single Guns. A Fortified H •^k A Demolished House. -C7- A Splinter-Proof. ~fy Trees and Hedges cut down. An Abatis of Branches and Wire. A Wire Entanglement. A Collecting Station for Wounded Men. HOW THE GUARDS FORTIFY TROU-DU-BOIS. 175 of Ellencourt Farm, we come to the right of the position.Here A Company of the Coldstreams has dug a sheltertrench behind a hedge (Fig. 13), through which the mencan fire hidden from the enemys view. This trench ismade facing towards the north-west, in order to re

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