NOTES ON GERMAN MAN@UVRES. 79 
victorious cavalry attempted to form up and face their new enemy, but 
in their disorganised state they had hardly time to do so, and the ten 
fresh squadrons charging them on the flank, it was decided that they 
were out of action, ‘Thus within the space of five minutes, on the one 
side six batteries, and on the other fifteen squadrons, were declared to 
have been rendered incapable of further action ; work of a sufficiently 
exciting nature to satisfy spectators, no matter how greedy for excite- 
ment. The cavalry of both sides were somewhat censured, the two 
regiments of the Gardes du Corps and Garde Ciirassiere for having 
failed to observe the enemy’s cavalry and thus exposed the artillery of 
their division to attack, while the fifteen squadrons were blamed for 
having ventured to charge without holding a sufficient force in reserve, 
with which to meet the counter-attack of the enemy’s cavalry. The 
whole day was equally instructive for artillery or cavalry. The troops 
bivouacked that night in the neighbourhood of the ground over which 
they had been manoeuvring and the following day brought a fortnights 
manceuvres to an end, the infantry returning to their respective 
garrisons by train, the mounted troops moving by road. 
December, 1894. 
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