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amount of dislike at stopping and looking at a map 

 in the street. Until, however, our young soldier is 

 sure that he can find his way by the map alone 

 equally well in the town as in the country, he should 

 brave the inquiring, and perhaps amused, glances of 

 the inhabitants. Does not military history furnish 

 instances of mistakes and often of disasters, which 

 have occurred through troops losing their way or 

 taking the wrong turn in a town ? 



One such instance occurred at the assault of 

 Lucknow on September 25, 1857, a portion of our 

 troops losing their way near the Kaiserbagh. 



Before leaving the town we may consider of what 

 sort would be the fighting in it, and how, supposing 

 the enemy were occupying that block of houses 

 there, we should turn him out. Should we go for 

 the houses straight, and perhaps find ourselves 

 unable to get inside them and losing men fast ? 

 Or should we throw a few men into the block 

 opposite to them to attract the enemy's attention, 

 and then work round by that street to the right and 

 try and cut him off, if necessary, by working through 

 the walls from house to house ? 



There is a habit regarding the finding of the way, 

 or rather of the finding of the way back, that soldiers 

 should cultivate, and that is the habit of looking back 

 occasionally. The object of this is to see how the 

 road looks when you are coming the reverse way. 

 When in touch with the enemy on active service 

 there are times when we never know how fast we 

 may have suddenly to return by the road we have 



