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they should include a series of echelons intended to ensure the continuance o£ 
the movement. 
(5.) The decisive attack is not only the most important part of the battle, 
but it is the one which demands in the highest degree the co-operation of the 
three arms. If it is true, that in order to charge the enemy with the bayonet the 
infantry must cross the dangerous zones which lie between without allowing 
themselves to be checked by the severe losses which they sustain, it is equally 
clear that the cavalry and artillery must confront the same dangers in order to 
support the principal arm and make the decisive attack successful. 
The cavalry must then be ready to intervene even during the actual execution 
of the attack, not to speak of the active part, which has always been assigned to 
them, of delaying the arrival of the enemy’s reserves, or of following up a 
success or covering a retreat after the actual assault. 
The artillery must never consider that they have done their duty simply by 
preparing the way for the attack, and bv continuing to fire at long ranges, but 
must take their part in the common dangers. Some of the batteries should 
accompany the attack in order to keep up the moral of the other troops, and to 
show that the forward march is general, and cannot be arrested by the enemy. 
Note. —General Dragomirov seems to ignore the great loss in horses which must ensue when¬ 
ever mounted corps are brought under close infantry fire, and which may render such corps 
absolutely ineffective.— J.H.G.B, 
