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CO-OPERATION BETWEEN GUNS AND CAVALRY. 
BY 
MAJOR E. S. MAY, B.A. 
(A Lecture! delivered at the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, 7th March, 1895). 
Lrevut.-Generat Sir Evenryn Woop, V.C., G.C.B., Spectra Honorary Member R.A.1., 
IN THE CHAIR. 
Tae Caatrman—lI need scarcely introduce Major May to you. I will 
not say that you know him very much better than I do, because not 
only do I know him very well but I have a great regard for him. But 
if I do not know him better than you do Lam quite certain that he 
knows the subject before us better than I do; and without saying more 
I will ask him to deliver his lecture. 
Mason HE. 8. May—Sir Evelyn Wood, My Lord, Sir Redvers Buller, 
and Gentlemen, it will scarcely be possible for me, in the time at our 
disposal this evening, to adequately deal with all the opportunities 
which war may yield to guns and horsemen. The potentialities of the 
two arms together in making long and rapid marches, in raids, pursuits, 
or retreats have not long ago been dealt with in previous lectures, 
and by no one more ably, if he will let me say so, than by the Inspector- 
General of Cavalry? himself, who has done us the honour of coming 
here to-night (applause). Great and important as they are I can per- 
haps therefore now pass them lightly over, to dwell more fully on the 
more difficult operations which the brigade or division of cavalry may 
be called upon to undertake, either on the battlefield itself, or when 
acting independently. Such operations too as we saw the other day 
near Churn will probably most attract us just at present, and moreover 
a special difficulty seems to me to cling round them in these latter 
days which renders discussion desirable. Because now-a-days we are 
especially tempted to try and combine and fuse together two great 
principles of tactics which are more or less antagonistic the one to 
the other. We endeavour to make what for the time being is one 
unit act by both fire and shock at the same moment, yet can never 
thus hope to reap the fullest effects from both methods. Nay more we 
desire at one phase of the action to see men forgetful of the advantages 
with which modern science has endowed them, and fight as in the days 
1 The lecture was given extempore. 
2 In a lecture before the Military Society of Ireland, on the 24th of April, 1893, 
5, VOL. XXII. 
