It is for the Imperial General Staff to grapple with this question. We are dealing here with men who will never really believe that a steel weapon is the distinguishing mark of a superior Cavalry. How the steel weapon at present is to be submitted to them in an intelligible and natural way, I do not know. Without it the whole problem solves itself. It will be possible then to arrange for their inclusion in an Imperial army on some definite and reasoned basis, with functions defined according to their capacity as mounted riflemen.
VII.—Conclusion.
I hope I have written nothing in this volume which does not come within the bounds of fair criticism. I have written strongly, because I feel strongly on a point about which every Englishman, soldier or civilian, has a right to feel strongly. We have wasted too much energy, brains and splendid human material on the perverse pursuit of a phantom ideal. It is painful, at this moment, to see a great current of keenness and ability so misdirected and misapplied.
Let us trust our own experience, shake off this crippling superstition, and start afresh on lines which we have proved to be successful. [Blank Page]
INDEX
- Abraham’s Kraal (or Driefontein), action of, [149]
- Acton Homes, [156]
- Afghan War, Cavalry in, Introduction, [vi] ([footnote]), [xi]
- Alderson, Colonel E. A. H., [94], [180], [181], [196]
- American Civil War, [9], [11]–14, [52], [217], [290], [330], [352]
- Artillery, with mounted troops, [147]–9, [236]–8, [364]
- Bernhardi on, [307]
- Austrian Cavalry (present day), [293], [315], [359]
- “Austrian Official History of the War of 1866,” [351]
- Austro-Prussian War (1866), [11], [111], [351], [352]
- Baknlaagte, action of, [244]–6, [256], [265]
- Bank Kop, action of, [247], [248]
- Barberton, [206], [207], [209], [282]
- Barkley West, [199]
- Bayonet, contrast of, with lance and sword, [24], [26], [166] for Cavalry, [364], Introduction, [xii]
- Belfast, British capture of, [205]
- Belmont, action of, [76]
- Benson Colonel G. E., [235], [244]–6
- Bergendal, battle of, [205]–7
- Bernhardi, General von, author of “Cavalry in Future Wars” (translated by C. S. Goldman; Introduction by General Sir J. French), [9], [13], [14], [17], [27], [28], [33], [44], [52], [128]–9, [194], [266], [281], [283], [287], [352]
- comparison of, with “Cavalry Training,” and other writers, Chapter [XIII].
- Bethune’s Mounted Infantry, [72]–3, [155], [199]
- Beyers, General, [232]
- Biddulphsberg, action of, [200]
- Biggarsberg, [199] pursuit at, by mounted riflemen, [264]
- Birkbeck, Colonel W. H. (reports on Russo-Japanese War), [350]–1
- Block-house system, [225]–6
- Bloemfontein, capture of, [149] halt at, [178]–84
- Blood River Poort, action of, [244], [247]
- Boschbult, action of, [249]
- Boschman’s Kop, action of, [247]–8, [258]
- Botha, General Louis, on the line of the Tugela, [151]–66
- Bothaville, action of, [212], [256], [264], [332]
- Bouwer’s Hoek, action of, [230], [339]
- Brabant’s Horse, [93], [150] Colonial Defence Force, [185], [187], [200]
- Brandfort, action of, [191]
- Brandwater Basin, Prinsloo’s surrender at, [173], [201]
- Briggs, Colonel C. J., [217], [240]
- British Officers’ Reports (Russo-Japanese War), [340], [346]–51
- Broadwood, Brigadier[Brigadier]-General R. G., [100], [139], [179]–83
- Buffelspoort, destruction of convoy at, [214]
- Buller, General Sir Redvers, at Colenso, [73]–4, etc.
- Burnett, General Sir C. J., report on Cavalry in Russo-Japanese War, [347], [351]
- Burn-Murdoch, Colonel, [160]–2
- Byng, Colonel the Hon. J. H. G., [217]
- Cæsar’s Camp, [154]
- Canadian Mounted Rifles, [205]
- Cape Mounted Police, [56], [150]
- Cape Mounted Rifles, [56], [230]
- Carrington, General Sir F., [187]
- “Cavalry Training” (Official Manual) (1907), [1]–3, [9], [26], [27], [35], [41], [43], [59], [233], [252], [263], [341], [345], [349], [360]
- “Cavalry in Future Wars,” by General von Bernhardi. See [Bernhardi]
- “Cavalry in the Russo-Japanese War,” by Count Wrangel. See [Wrangel]
- Chaotao, Japanese Cavalry at, [340]
- Chardeh Valley, action of, 1879, Introduction, [xi]
- Charges, British (South African War), with the arme blanche, at Talana, [62]
- Charges of mounted riflemen:
- Charges, Boer (South African War), [181]–2, [212]–13, and Chapter [XI].
- Charges, Boer (South African War), Bernhardi on, [254], [307]
- Charges, Russo-Japanese War, [328], [348]
- Clements, General R. A. P., [93], [150]–1
- Colenso, battle of, [73]–4
- Colesberg, French’s operations round, [85]–91
- Colvile, General Sir H., [187], [200]
- Convoys, attacks on, directions of “Cavalry Training” about, [318]–19
- Cookson, Colonel, [249]
- Cossacks. See [Russian Cavalry]
- Crimean War, [11], [18], [111], [261],
- Introduction, [vii]
- Cronje, General Andries, [98]
- Cronje, General Piet, at battle of Magersfontein, [81]
- Custozza, battle of, Introduction, [viii]
- Delagoa Bay Railway, attacks on, [214]
- De la Rey, General, [81], [149], [200], [204]–5, [214], [231]–3, [248], [256], [357]
- De Lisle, Colonel, [196]
- Denison, Colonel, author of “History of Cavalry,” [11]
- De Wet, General Christian, at Nicholson’s Nek, [72]
- with Cronje, [89]
- at Waterval, [102], [119], [123]
- at Paardeberg, [123]–5
- at Poplar Grove, [130]–40, [149]
- at Sannah’s Post, Reddersburg, Wepener, etc., [179]–84
- raids on railway, June, 1900, [200]–1
- first hunt of, [201]–4
- second hunt of, [211]–13
- third hunt of, [229]–30
- in guerilla war, [211]–13, [231], [240]
- allusions to, [172], [331]–2
- De Wet, General Piet, [179]–83, [200]
- Dewetsdorp, actions at, [183]–4
- Diamond Hill, battle of, [189], [193]–4, [196]–7, [261], [285]
- District Mounted Troops (Cape Colony), [218]–19
- Dixon, Brigadier-General H. G., [241]
- Drives, [225]–7
- Dronfield, action of, [113]–16, [120], [128], [138], [148], [181], [246], [338]
- Dundonald, General the Earl of, [156], [160]–2, [199]
- Du Toit, General, [113]