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general, by performing before him movements 

 previously practised expressly for the occasion. 

 If an officer commanding a cavalry regiment 

 require more than a momentary glance at an 

 enemy for attacking him, he is not fit for that 

 arm of the service. 



Our cavalry regiments should not on their 

 field days be allowed to dwell so much as they 

 usually do between their movements. Two of 

 these should be made in rapid succession, in 

 order to accustom the non-commissioned offi- 

 cers to take up the new lines rapidly. When 

 the commanding officer on a field-day dwells 

 long between every movement, the attention of 

 both officers and men becomes wearied. If a 

 cavalry regiment cannot perform its move- 

 ments rapidly, without getting into more or 

 less of confusion, either its troop or its regi- 

 mental drills have been neglected. When a 

 general then arrives before a cavalry regiment 

 to review it, he should name the movements he 

 wishes to have performed, instead of being 

 content to accept those which had been pre- 

 viously practised for the occasion. 



In the course of the last war I knew some 

 junior field officers of cavalry regiments, who, 



