Note 414 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY. (continued 7)
Walter Krueger translation
The distance at which the first attack came to a standstill is variously given as 300 (3rd Guard Regiment and IInd Battalion of the 1st Guard Regiment) and 800-900 paces (2nd Guard Regiment). See History of the 3rd Guard Regiment, pp. 276, 279 and 280; that of the 1st Guard Regiment, p. 165; that of the 2nd Guard Regiment, p. 232. “Headed by a few of the officers who still remained, the depleted lines clung to the slope; with iron endurance and self-sacrifice they maintained the dearly bought positions.” Gen. St. W., II, p. 872.