Note 339 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY. (continued 6)

This induces the British Infantry Training to prescribe that in a rencontre a concentration for attack should invariably be ordered.

[340] Military history furnishes a multitude of examples of the fact that a force can persevere in spite of the most galling fire (St. Privat. Gorni Dubniac). A reverse does not occur, as a rule, until the advent of unforeseen circumstances. The Brigade of Highlanders held out for hours at Magersfontain, and an insignificant change of front on the right flank subsequently caused the whole line to retire. See Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, 32, p. 74.