lion, 74-75
company, 72-73
outpost company, 134-137
piquet, 135-136
platoon, 71-72, 135-136
Commander's influence, 33-35
orders, 178-179
plans, 57-58
position, 68
"Common Sense" fallacy, 1, 3
Communication, 31, 35, 107-108
Communications, lateral, 89
lines of, 116-118
Company in attack, 72-73
outpost, 134-137
Conde-Mons-Binche line, 87
Connection by night, 146
"Contemptible Little Army," the, 18-19, 165
Convoys, 116-118
Co-operation, 35-37, 164
Coruna, 127-128
Cossack posts, 137
Counter attack, 123
decisive, 79, 84, 92-94
local, 56, 75, 79, 161, 163
Cover, 88-89, 155
Covering fire, 43-44
Cronje, Gen. (Paardeberg), 16
Cross Keys, battle of, 117
Crown Prince of Prussia (1870), 109
(1914), 28
Crozat Canal, 77
Cugny, 96
Cumberland, army of the, 15
Cyclists, characteristics of, 168

Davis, Jefferson, 3
Day outposts, 137-138
Daylight and night attacks, 148
Decisive attack, the, 31-32, 60-62
counter attack, 79, 84, 92-94
Defence in close country, 155-156
of villages, 163
of woods, 161
Defensive action, 76-97, 163
battle, 45-46
flank, 86
system, 83
Defensive-offensive battle, 47-49
Defiles, 124
Definitions, 6-8
Delaborde, General, 95, 127
Delaying action, 118, 121-128, 158-159
Deployment, position of, 147-148
Depth of a position, 89
Detached posts, 134, 135
De Wet, 118, 138
Diamond formation, 70
Direction by night, 145
Discipline, value of, 11-12
Dresden, battle of, 47, 89

Early, General., C.S. Army, 7
East Surrey Regiment, 42
Embussing point, 69
Encounter battle, 58, 64
Engineers, Royal, characteristics, 172
gas, 176
smoke, 177
Entrenching tool, 165
Entrenchments, 82-83, 100, 135
Epehy, battle of, 21
Ettlingen, battle of, 128
Eugene of Savoy, 46
Evelington Heights, 112-113

Fabius Maximus, 14, 102
Fallacies exposed, 1-5
Fanny's Farm, 160
Field artillery, characteristics of, 170-171
of battle, 6-7
of fire, 88
Fighting in close country, 155-163
Fire attack, 59-60
and movement, 44
covering, 43-44
opening, 31, 37-38, 146, 154
overhead, 44
tactics, 37-39
Flame projectors, 176
Flanders, battle of, 21
Flank attacks, 61, 114-118
guard tactics, 115
guards, 114-118, 145
scouts, 71
Flanks in defence, 86
security of, 88
Fletcher, Col