92 INCIDENTS OF BUSH WARFARE. 
War in New Zealand, 1860-65. 
Incidents exemplifiying the courage, superstition and dexterity in 
retreat shown by the Maoris. 
Account of the disastrous attack on the Gate Pah. 
Ashantee War (73-74) alluded to. 
Zulu War. Defence of Rorke’s Drift referred to. 
Afghan War. 
Perpetual annoyance by marauders at night. 
Raids on villages. 
Destruction of towns. 
Precautions for ensuring successful demolition. 
Examples of success and failure. 
Operations of the French in Tonquin and Assam (82-86). 
Fighting merits of the Chinese. 
Possibility of the formation of a very formidable Chinese army in the 
future. 
Details of the elaborate siege of Tlayen Kwang by the Chinese and 
Black Flags. 
The French in Algeria. 
Similarity to our small Indian Wars. 
Special rules for reconnoitring and crossing rivers. 
Necessity for flank defence exemplified by French disaster at La 
Rahonia. 
Sundry camp and field fortification expedients. 
Burmah. 
Bamboo palisades and spiked obstacles. 
Siege of Sadon as related by Lieut. MacMunn, D.-S.-O., R.A., in 
R.A.1. “ Proceedings.” 
Stanley’s Expedition to Central Africa. 
DISCUSSION. 
Masor-Guneratl. A. Woon, C.B.,said he had been asked to make afew remarks 
upon what they had heard so ably delivered. He was sure all those who had 
heard it could see how much there was to learn in those little wars, and perhaps 
before they left that subject the lecturer would tell them the names of one or two 
works that might be of use to them. He knew that there had been numbers of 
applications lately received at the War Office for such works. There was an 
immense desire on the part of young officers to encounter sufficient fighting, as 
soon as they got into the army. He did not think the lecturer had at all 
exaggerated any details of the difficulties the English had encountered, and where 
they struck him as being excessively correct was in Afghanistan, but the lecturer 
had omitted to tell them that in some of the lines of communication so serious 
was the effect of night attacks, perhaps from the want of search lights or proper 
information, that a large amount of small ammunition was fired away during the 
course of the night; in the morning the report always came in that the natives 
had succeeded in carrying off their dead. It was hard to say whether there were 
