Note 446 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY. (continued 8)

Clausewitz, On War, VI, 12 (Militär-Klassiker, p. 364). The Boers were masters of the art of concealing defensive positions. At Colenso, on the Modder River, and at Magersfontain, their positions were located in places where neither the British artillerists nor the reconnoitering detachments suspected them to be.