Note 80 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 2)
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To have placed some of them as an advanced post on the 'small detached hill' in front would have been to leave them en l'air, exposed to certain destruction from an attack which they could not check. For Mr Freeman held that, even if occupied by an outpost, it was only by the 'light-armed'. (See Q.R., July 1893, pp. 99, 100.)