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partures, my thanks are also due ; as also to Briga- 

 dier General H. de la P. Gough, commanding 3rd 

 Cavalry Brigade, Ireland, the Messrs. Miller of polo 

 fame, Mr. R. Donaldson-Hudson, and to Mr. C. S. 

 Jackson, M. A., Instructor of Mathematics and 

 Mechanics at the Royal Military Academy, Wool- 

 wich; also to Major G. H. A. White, R. H. A., for 

 some of the illustrations. 



I am much indebted to the Editors of the Royal 

 Artillery Journal and the Cavalry Journal for their 

 very kind permission to reproduce a portion of some 

 articles I published in these periodicals, and in the 

 case of the former to use some of the plates which 

 illustrated them. I am also much indebted to the 

 proprietor of the Field newspaper for a similar 

 permission. 



Noel Birch, 



Naval and Military Club, 

 Piccadilly, 



London. 

 izth June, 1911. 



