Note 429 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY. (continued 8)

General Minarelli-Fitzgerald, Infanteriemassen im Angriff. Colonel Csicserics von Bacsany of the Austrian Army, in a brilliant study entitled Die Schlacht (Vienna, 1908), argues that with the increased combat frontage of armies, local successes have no longer the same Influence on the outcome of the battle as of old. Compare, for example, the envelopment of the Russian left flank at Liao Yang, and the penetration of the line at Yuhuntun (Mukden), with the effect produced by the capture of Chlum and St. Privat on the outcome of the battles of Königgrätz and Gravelotte, respectively.