Exercises in Strategy and Tactics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PRELIMINARY NOTE By the Translator The German Infantry Regiment has 3 battalions of 4 companies each. The Company is subdivided into 3 Ziige. The Cavalry Regiment in the field has 4 squadrons, each of which is subdivided into 4 Ziige; accordingly, zwg is translated in the text, half-troop. The division of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PRELIMINARY NOTE By the Translator The German Infantry Regiment has 3 battalions of 4 companies each. The Company is subdivided into 3 Ziige. The Cavalry Regiment in the field has 4 squadrons, each of which is subdivided into 4 Ziige; accordingly, zwg is translated in the text, half-troop. The division of Field Artillery varies in the German army in strength, some divisions having 3, and some 4 batteries. In the exercises here translated the artillery division has 4 batteries of 6 guns each. A Pioneer Company has 2i5 men and 4 wagons. A Divisional Pontoon Train has 9 six-horse wagons, 4 four-horse wagons, and i two-horse pack wagon. It is under the command of the captain of the pioneer company, and has a permanent escort from that company of 2 non-commissioned officers and i6 pioneers. It carries material for a bridge 364 metres (40 yards) long. It occupies on the march 350 yards of road. A Sanitary Detachment (=English Bearer Company?ef. Soldiers' Pocket Book, p. no) consists of 7 surgeons, i apothecary, and 207 men. It takes with it i2 wagons, each with 2 horses, and is divided into two sections of equal strength, which can be used independently. The Sanitary Detachment collects the wounded on the field, performs all immediately necessary bandaging, and transports them as quickly as possible to the rear, where they are handed over to the field hospitals. A Field Hospital has 5 surgeons, an apothecary, and 2i attendants; it has 3 four-horse and 3 two-horse wagons, and can accommodate 200 sick or wounded. The Sanitary Detachment covers 270 yards, the Field Hospital i40 yards of road. An Ammunition Column Division (called briefly Column Division) is composed of 2 infantry and 3 artillery ammunition columns. The infantry ammunition column has 23 wagons of 6...