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versus depth of infantry formation, the author unhesitatingly gives 
his opinion in favour of the latter, urging that each section of the 
fighting line should be complete in itself— e.g., that one battalion 
should form skirmishers, supports, and reserve; the latter under the 
hand of the Colonel, who can turn it to any purpose the circumstances 
of the fight necessitate—such as prolonging the chain to a flank, 
or warding off a flank attack. He quotes Spicheren as an example 
of all the companies of battalions being thrown into the fighting line 
as chain and supports, without keeping a reserve, and argues that if 
any one of the divisions of Bazaine's corps had been moved up to 
assist Frorsard that day, a serious German reverse would have marked 
the 6th of August. 
A paper by Major von Marnegg on the desirability of teaching the 
War Game—unhappily so little practised among ourselves—in military 
schools, and a translation of a collection of Turkish documents on the 
last war, close a very interesting number. 
