. How armies fight. cins st&itoriei-y9 g?Oceriesyofficers9baggage,etc. n Sergeant ?1 store:WAao/v coTztains spare hoots, cooJiinq pots9 etc. ? TransportOfficer $1 *1*1 *1 W4&OA/ScurryOne JDcxy*s Foodfo7~ GOsCh manczmd horse. & a JDergearit NOTE5 8b a FrL\/ata 0 a Driver aJ&rse Fig. 29.—A Battalion of Infantry. This diagram shows eArery one of the 1,010 officers and men in an infantry battalion,which is usually spoken of as a regiment. Each of the eight companies is known by a INFANTRY. 437 ground, and charged 12,000 Frenchmen occupying astrong position on a hill at Sabugal! Three times
. How armies fight. cins st&itoriei-y9 g?Oceriesyofficers9baggage,etc. n Sergeant ?1 store:WAao/v coTztains spare hoots, cooJiinq pots9 etc. ? TransportOfficer $1 *1*1 *1 W4&OA/ScurryOne JDcxy*s Foodfo7~ GOsCh manczmd horse. & a JDergearit NOTE5 8b a FrL\/ata 0 a Driver aJ&rse Fig. 29.—A Battalion of Infantry. This diagram shows eArery one of the 1,010 officers and men in an infantry battalion,which is usually spoken of as a regiment. Each of the eight companies is known by a INFANTRY. 437 ground, and charged 12,000 Frenchmen occupying astrong position on a hill at Sabugal! Three times werethe gallant assailants repulsed, but on their fourth attemptthe enemy were completely routed, and fled in disorder. Contrast this with the battle of Modder River. TheBritish line, advancing, as at Sabugal, over open ground,was received with such a sudden hail of bullets that thetroops in the centre could not get within a mile of theenemy ; nor, for that matter, could they retreat. They lay. Fig. 30.—The Lee-Enfield Rifle. A spring (a) at the bottom of the magazine pushes the cartridges up towards the pushing forward the bolt (b) in the direction of the arrow, you shove the top cartridge(c) into the chamber (d). After you have fired, you pull back the bolt, and this pullsout the empty cartridge case. A small metal leaf can be pushed across the top of themagazine at e, so that you can load and fire the rifle without using the cartridges in themagazine. This leaf is called the cut-off. there for eight hours in a burning sun, their throatsparched with thirst and choked with the dust which rosefrom the continual dropping of the enemys bullets on thedry sandy soil around them. At the battle of Sabugal the fair range of small armswas scarcely two hundred yards, loading was a matter ofnearly a minute, and the ammunition was so heavy that asoldier could carry very few rounds. letter, and is composed as shown in Fig. &S, except that a lieutenant of one of the companie
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