Note 308 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY. (continued 6)

“Every leader should carefully watch the progress of a cavalry charge, and, as soon as he observes that friendly cavalry has succeeded in penetrating the hostile line or that the enemy is shaken and directs all of his fire against the charging cavalry, he should immediately advance to the attack and be upon the enemy with the bayonet before the latter recovers his senses. Such an attack will not have been made in vain, even if the cavalry has been repulsed.” General Gurko’s comments on the maneuvers of 1893.

Prince Frederick Charles, in his Winke für die Offiziere der unter Meinen Befehlen ins Feld rückenden Truppen (1870), also demands that the infantry should quickly follow up cavalry attacks.