Note 307 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY. (continued 6)

The German army is the only one that employs an appropriate signal for this purpose. The attack made by the 28th Infantry Brigade against the wood of Bor at Königgrätz is very instructive in this connection. Hönig, Taktik der Zukunft, p. 56. At the signal, “cavalry,” the threatened portions of the brigade halted and formed square. Fortunately the Saxons had already begun to retire from the edge of the wood. A stray hostile troop (Eskadron) had caused all the trouble.