Note 83 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY.

For historical reference as to the importance of the brigade in action, see essay published in Jahrbücher für Armee und Marine (August and September numbers 1877) entitled: Die Infanterie Brigade in ihrer Entwickelung aus der Brigade von 1812. In regard to the employment of regiments in line or in echelon, see Memoir by General von Moltke on the tactical lessons gained in the campaign of 1866. Moltke, Taktisch-strategische Aufsätze, p. 99, et seq.

[84] The fight of François’ Brigade at Spicheren. Gen. St. W. I, p. 310, et seq. The formation, side by side, of the six battalions of the IIIrd Army Corps in the attack on the hill at Forbach (Spicheren) would have been inappropriate and would have disrupted all organizations.