Note 34 — Chapter VIII · CAVALRY IN THE GENERAL ENGAGEMENT
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Cf. Langlois, Lessons from Two Recent Wars. Speaking of the battle of Colenso, he says: “The cavalry received no orders, and did nothing. In the whole day’s fighting the cavalry brigade (six squadrons) lost two men altogether.” May not this want of direction have been due in some degree to the well-known prejudice of the generalissimo against the cavalry arm?