INDEX

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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