Our Cavalry

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Abd-el-Kader, 23
Abdur-Rahman, 2
Afghan War, officers of the 9th Lancers in the, 14
Afghans, Sir Montague Gerard and the, 11
Aids, conventional, 194;
natural, 195
Alexander the Great, 1
Alexander, General, 26, 145
Amateur officers entirely out of place in war, 97
American Civil War, 73, 135
American view of British cavalry in South African operations, 8
Arab horses, a type bred for war, 23;
proverb, 52
Arabs’ old-world wisdom as regards the horse, 23
Aristocracy in the armies of the French Republic, 97
Armament, 10
Artillery fire, relative effect of, 46
Artillery, horse, 26, 41
Atlanta campaign, 149
Attachment to other arms on the part of officers, 159
Attila with his Hunnish squadrons, 2
Australian Commonwealth, Manual of, 55
Australians as horsemen, 13
Ballistics from horseback, 5
Basuto pony, 21
Batteries of horse artillery, 5
Bayonet of German cavalry, 10
Bernhardi, Von, on bayonet, 11, 147;
cavalry literature by, 17;
Cavalry in Future Wars, 52, 77, 90, 94, 99, 169, 187;
Cavalry in War and Peace, 62, 66, 95, 208;
on fundamental principles of action, 101
Birch, Major Noel, 192
Boers, 71, 75, 82, 99, 133, 134
Boer system of training a horse, 197
Bloch, De, 5, 113
Blücher, 3, 85, 128
Bonie, Colonel, 6, 7
Botha, General, 75
“Boy Scouts,” 142
Brack, De, 7, 35, 37, 126, 135, 147, 171, 173
Brigade, the, 41–48
British cavalry ahead of continental cavalry in fire tactics, 17;
ignorance of horses, 18;
inflation of idea as to size of horse required, 21;
horse bred for size, speed, etc., 23
Campaigning, horse-management in, 24
Canadians as horsemen, 13
Canterbury system of horse training, 196
Cape Colony as a source of horse-supply, 21
Carrago nose-band, 201
“Casse cou,” 87
Cavalry, expense of, 8;
leader, 8, 73;
brigade in action, 59;
in the general engagement, 69;
disposition of, in a campaign, 86;
masses of, 99, 109;
screen, 135;
shooting and fire discipline of, 208
Cavalry Training, Manual of, 111
Cavalry v. Cavalry, 37
“Charge,” the, 2, 4
Cherfils, 69, 98
Chest measurement as sign of stamina of horse, 20
Chivalry, 2;
Norman, 2
Colonials in the South African War, 75
Competition of squadrons, 212
Convoy duty, 144
Cooking, knowledge of, 211
Cossacks, 75, 150;
activity of the, 135
Cost of horse-flesh in South African operations, 18
Country-bred men, 210
Cromwell, 3, 6, 34, 69
Cronje, General, 84
Culverwell, Professor, on teaching, 214
Curély, 3, 7, 134
Cyclists, 94, 96
Cynic, 143;
cynicism, 217
Daumas, General, book on Arab horses by, 23
Delarey, 75
Denison on cavalry recruits, 208
Despatch-riding, 139
Detached duties of cavalry, 139
De Wet, raids of, 147
Direction of cavalry by higher leaders, 88
Dismounted action of cavalry, 57;
work, 11, 73, 186
Disposition of cavalry in a campaign, 86
Dissemination of squadrons, 68
Divisional cavalry, 91
Doctrine, Langlois’, 171;
Napoleon’s, 172
Dogger Bank, 131
Dragoons of Napoleon, 11
Drives in South Africa, 93
Drying tent, 125
Dundonald, Lord, Preface to his Cavalry Training, 55
Duty, sense of, 160
Echelon attack, advantages of the, 39
Elliot, on the possibilities of cavalry, 6;
inspiriting regulation mentioned by, 178
En bondes, to work towards the enemy, 59
Enemy, in contact with the, 122
Engineering, Manual of Military, 211
English cavalry, 59
Europe, supply of food for horses when campaigning in, 21
Expenses in cavalry, 154, 155
Expensive, want of cavalry is, American view, 8
Exploration, cavalry of, 90
Fanaticism, religious, 215
Field Service Regulations, 90, 94
Fire action in tactics, 50;
action by cavalry, German opinion on, 57;
effect, horse artillery, compared with rifle fire, 117
Fixed principles of the great cavalry leaders, 3
Flags, use of, 78
Flank, forming to the, 37
Forage supply and its carriage, 95, 96
Forming to the flank, 37
Frederick the Great, 3, 6, 90;
sayings of, 25, 105, 177;
his horses duly considered, 27;
on the rapid rallying of squadrons, 33;
success of the cavalry of, 81;
horse artillery and cavalry of, 102, 103;
and his officer Seydlitz, 193
Free-jumping lane, 198
French, General Sir John, 84
French cavalry, 7, 209;
regulations, 90, 134, 136, 159, 171
French dragoons in the Peninsular War, 15;
nation and the war of 1870, 7;
Republic, the armies of the, 97;
Manuel du gradé de cavalerie, 160, 217
Frossard, General, and the episode at Vionville, 73
Galliffet, General, 6, 31, 88
Gambling spirit necessary in cavalry leader, 9
Gerard, Sir Montague, 11
German cavalry, bayonet substituted for the sword in, 10;
and the lance, 16;
rifle and fire tactics, 16;
at Loigny-Poupry, 72;
regulations, 70, 71, 79, 80, 92, 107, 109, 115, 170;
considered too weak, 95
German officers in the 1870 war, 139;
opinion on mounted infantry, 56;
opinion on fire action by cavalry, 57
Goltz, Von der, his Nation in Arms, 10, 69, 93, 97, 161, 162, 167
Gordon, Lindsay, poem by, 32
Gourko, General, his raid across the Balkans, 146
Grumbling—the soldier’s privilege to grumble, 217
Gustavus Adolphus, 3
Haig, General Sir D., 35, 38, 51, 67, 71, 78, 113
Haute école, 196, 197, 203
Henderson, Colonel, in Science of War, 56, 117, 118, 128
Hood, General, and Wheeler’s raid, 149
Horse, the, 18;
Arab, 23;
in South African operations, 82;
what will the cavalry horse live on? 86;
despatch-riding, 139;
loss of many overriden, 149;
exhaustion of, 151;
Frederick the Great and his, 178;
efficiency for war in, 181;
training of the, 191
Horse artillery, 26, 41, 76, 78, 93, 101;
batteries of, 5;
German, 72;
and cavalry, 101;
co-operation of, with cavalry, 108;
fire effect compared with rifle fire, 117
Horse-management, good system of campaigning, 205;
theory of, 25, 26
Horse, training of the, 191;
economy in, 204
Hunting as an exercise for a cavalry officer, 159, 168, 197
Hutton, General Sir E., 55
Imagination, want of, 165
Inaction, 61
Independent cavalry, 94
India, cavalrymen in, 184
Infantry attack, cavalry practising the rôle of, 57
Infantry Training, Manual of, 114
Information and security, the two functions of cavalry, 87–88
Instruction, general, 140;
theoretical, 214
Instructional rides, manœuvres, etc., 77
Irish horse, beau-ideal for cavalry, 19
Japan, Emperor of, order by, 202
Japanese, 8, 75, 146, 149–51, 173
Jena, campaign of, 89
Katzbach, pursuit after battle of, 85
Kleber, General, and cowardice, 217
Kraft, Prince, on cavalry dismounting, 58;
Letters on Cavalry, 108, 119;
on expenses of cavalry officer, 157
Lance, 13, 14, 16
Lancers, 9th, in the Afghan War, 14
Langlois, General, in Lessons from Two Recent Wars, 69, 71, 76, 88, 102, 165, 171, 175
Lasalle, 3, 131, 169
Leading, sticky, condoned in the past, 78
Lewal, 78
Liberty of manœuvre, 98, 100
Lindsay Gordon, poem by, 32
Line of communication, raid on a, 152
Liubavin, General, 76
Lloyd’s Maxims, extract from, 179
Loigny-Poupry, German cavalry at, in 1870, 72
Lonsdale Hale, Colonel, 72
McClellan, General, 145
Machine guns, 103, 109
Makarov, Admiral, 132
Mamelukes, 15, 193
Man, training of the, 202
Manchuria, Russians in, 7
Manchurian War, 75, 146
Map-reading, 184
Masses of cavalry, 99, 109;
column of, 46
Maude, Colonel, Cavalry: Its Past and Future, 110, 112, 148
May, General, Guns and Cavalry, 114
Mêlée, 14, 209
Michel’s brigade at the battle of Woerth, 112
Mischenko, General, 149, 150
Moltke, Yon, sayings of, 8, 155
Moral, 1, 5, 30, 49, 217
Mosby, 7
Mounted infantry, 56, 73, 75, 117, 205
Mounted infantry horse see finish of campaign, 22
Mukden, battle of, 110, 146
Murat, 3, 24, 82, 98, 141, 206
Nansouty and Murat, 24
Napier, on sword, 14
Napoleon and his dragoons of 1805, 11;
the mamelukes formidable antagonists to, 15;
light cavalry horse of, 20;
in Russian campaign, 24;
his lack of consideration for the horse, 27;
maxims of, 71, 88, 122, 167;
discerns the impossibility of co-ordinating the two functions of cavalry—information and security, 88;
horse artillery and cavalry of, 102, 103;
sayings of, 108, 112, 167, 190;
and Lasalle, 131;
information easily gained by the French cavalry for, 135;
extensive use of despatch-riders in several of his campaigns, 141;
his doctrine of moral, 172;
on the mamelukes, 193;
his loss of horse in the invasion of Russia, 206
Napoleonic era, 3
New Zealanders as horsemen, 13
Ney, “the bravest of the brave,” 84
Napoleon’s appreciation of, 167
Night attack, a, 124
Norman chivalry, 2
Officer, cavalry, the training of the, 154, 167
Officers, amateur, 97
Officers’ want of experience in horse-flesh on joining a regiment, 18
Paardeberg, 82, 149
Pace, exercise in, 140
Pamirs, horse food in the, 25
Parthian tactics, 1, 82
Patriotism, 6, 97
Peace-time theorists, 79
Pelet Narbonne, Von, 111, 151
Peninsular War, 15, 135, 159
“Pepper-box” system, 93
Personal weapon, 209. See also Armament
Personnel, 82
Petersburg, 27
Picard, 89, 206, 214
“Picket the enemy,” 133
Picq, Ardant du, 29, 49, 80, 87, 174
Pioneering, every man should possess a good knowledge of, in all its forms, 211
Polo-playing as an exercise for cavalry officers, 168, 197
Polo pony, 20, 192
Pompom, use of the, 68
Pony, the, as adjunct to squadrons, 20–21
Preuil, General de, 73
Prince Imperial, death of, in Zululand, 191
Principles of cavalry leading, 3
Prisoners, Spanish, 10,000 captured by the French, 85;
the taking of, very desirable, 128;
as a means of obtaining information, 143
Problems, practical, and their proposed solutions, 188
Protective cavalry, their duty to secure positions for infantry columns following them, 92
Punchestown, training horses, 198
Pursuit, 83;
parallel, 84
Rafts, 211
Raids, 145
Rally, the, 32;
instantaneous, 14
Rearguards, 1, 144, 189, 214
Recruits, 136, 207
Reich, Emil, 169
Rennenkampf, his reconnaissance to Kuan-tien-cheng, 150
Resolute offensive, 78
Revolver as a weapon in place of a sword, 15
Riding, methods of teaching, 202
Rifle, the, 16;
magazine, cavalry armed with, 50
Rifle fire compared with horse artillery fire effect, 117
Romer, General, 204
Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles, 12
Rozhestvenski, fleet of, 131
Rupert, his defeat, 34
Ruskin, sayings of, 25, 155
Russian successes in Central Asia, 7;
officers, 76, 217;
campaign of 1812, 89
Russians, 146, 149–51
Saddles, General Romer on, 204
St. Cyr, General, 85
Samsonov, General, 8
Sands, seaside, digging hasty field fortifications at, 213
Scabbard, steel, 10
Schmidt, Von, his Instructions for Cavalry, 4, 5, 29, 33, 38, 41, 108, 164, 177, 178
Scouts, 127, 130, 142
Section leaders, competition of, 184–185
Seydlitz, 3, 80, 193
Shaikh Sadi, sayings of, 128, 154
Shakespeare, 128, 167
Sherman, General, 149
Shock action, 4;
tactics, 4, 13, 52
Shooting of cavalry, 208
“Show” teams, 182
Small horse for war, 20;
wars distract attention from essentials, 18
South Africa, cost of horse-flesh in, 18;
mounting of our cavalry in, 21
South African War, 59, 74, 81, 97, 106, 134, 147, 161, 213;
operations, 1899–1902, erroneous conclusions from, 8
South Africans, 13
Sowars, 12
Spaits, Captain, 110
Squadron, the training of a, 177;
leader, 179–80, 200
Squadrons, competition of, 212
Stamina of horse essential, 22
Sticky leading, 78;
action, 80
Stuart, General, 145, 146
Swimming as an exercise for cavalrymen, 210–11
Sword, 10–16
Tactics of Cavalry v. Cavalry, 29
Tactics, Parthian, 1, 82;
Zulu, 4
Tax-payer of Great Britain and lessons from war, 8
Telissu, cavalry at battle of, 8
Theoretical instruction, 214
Tracking, etc., 141
Ulm, campaign of, 98, 141;
despatch-riding in, 141
Union of arms, 88
Unison of arms, 50
Verdy du Vernois on the possibilities of cavalry, 6;
on the sword, 12
Veterinary Department and their book, Animal Management, 25
Volley firing, 17
Von der Goltz, 10, 69, 93, 97, 161, 162, 167
Walers (Australian), horses, bred for size, speed, etc., 23
Waterloo, battle of, 3
Weaker cavalry, rôle of, 95
Wellington, Duke of, 42, 185
Wet saddle-blankets to be carefully avoided, 204
Wheeler’s raid, 149
Wolseley, Lord, 122
Wood and Edmonds, their Civil War in the United States, 149
Wrangel, in Cavalry in the Japanese War, 135
Xenophon, advice re stable management, 1;
on purchasing of horse, 23;
and Argesilaus, 208
Yeomanry as a national and imperial asset, 97
Yinkov, raid to, 150
Ziethen, 3, 80
Zulu tactics, 4
Zulus, modus operandi of the, 190

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