"There remained with the general, after our movement to the right, three companies of chasseurs, a battalion of the 29th, and three of the 59th. I do not include many elements of the Papal army which had not been engaged. Some of my comrades told me of having been engaged with a chasseur company of the 59th in a sunken road, whose sides had not been occupied; the general was with this column. Having arrived close to the village, some shots either from the houses or from enemy sharpshooters, who might easily have gotten on the undefended flanks, provoked a terrible fusillade in the column. In spite of the orders and efforts of the officers, everybody fired, at the risk of killing each other, and this probably happened. It was only when some men, led by officers, were able to climb the sides of the road that this firing ceased. I do not think that this was a well understood use of new arms. "The fusillade of the 1st Line Regiment against Monte-Rotondo was not very effective, I believe negligible. I do not refer to the moral result, which was great. "The Garibaldians were numerous about Monte-Rotondo. But the terrain like all that around Italian villages was covered with trees, hedges, etc. Under these conditions, I believe that the fire of sharpshooters would have been more effective than volleys, where the men estimate distances badly and do not aim." NOTES [Footnote 1: General Daumas (Manners and Customs of Algeria). Nocturnal Surprise and Extermination of a Camp.] [Footnote 2: Among the Romans, mechanics and morale are so admirably united, that the one always comes to the aid of the other and never injures it.] [Footnote 3: The Romans did not make light of the influence of a poet like Tyrtaeus. They did not despise any effective means. But they knew the value of each.] [Footnote 4: Also their common sense led them to recognize immediately and appropriate arms better than their own.] [Footnote 5: This is an excuse. The maniple was of perfect nobility and, without the least difficulty, could face in any direction.] [Footnote 6: This was an enveloping attack of an army and not of men or groups. The Roman army formed a wedge and was attacked at the point and sides of the wedge; there was not a separate flank attack. That very day the maniple presented more depth than front.] [Footnote 7: They had been sent to attack Hannibal's camp; they were repulsed and taken prisoner in their own camp after the battle.]