Sadowa, battle of, 96 St. Privat, battle of, 60 Salamanca, battle of, 27, 78 Salient, the (1864), 97, 149 (Ypres), 39 Sambre, battle of the, 21 Sannah's Post, 118, 124 Sarrail, General, 37 Sauroren, battle of, 10 Savage warfare, 156-157 Scarpe, battle of the, 21 Scouts (platoon), 71 Secrecy, 25, 29-31, 51, 102, 144, 145-146, 153-154 Sectors of defence, 94 Sedan, battle of, 159 Selle, battle of the, 21 Semi-permanent defences, 85-86 Seneca _quoted_: (Surprise), 102 Sentry groups, 131, 136-137 Serre Hill, 148-149 Seven Days' Battle, the, 14, 90 Sharpsburg, battle of, 14, 15, 48 Shenandoah Valley campaign, 4, 7, 12, 117 Signals, 35, 107 "Silence is golden," 113 Skobeleff, General Michael Dimitrievitch, 18 Smith-Dorrien, Gen. Sir H. L., G.C.B., 87, 126 Smoke, 56, 150-151, 171, 177 Snipers, 81 Soissons, Fortress of, 41, 78 Soldiers' battles, 9 Somme, first battle of the, 7, 13, 37, 42-43, 148, 171, 176-177 second battle of the, 33-34, 43, 51-52, 56, 66, 77, 78, 126-127, 174 Soult, Marechal, 10, 127 South African War, 6-7. (_See also_ Battles by name.) Spicheren, battle of, 108-109, 158 Spottsylvania, battle of, 93-94, 117, 149-150 Square formation in attack, 70 Stafford Heights, 139 Stamford Bridge, battle of, 12 Stormberg, 152 Strategical advanced guard, 103 Strategy defined, 6, 8 and tactics, 6-23 Stuart, Gen. J. E. B., C.S. Army ("Jeb" Stuart), 65, 112-113, 117, 128. Study, necessity for, 1-3, 4-5 Sublician Bridge, 77 Sulphur Springs, 108 Super-heavy artillery, 172, 173 Supply, 13, 67 Supports in attack, 55-56, 169 in close country, 159 defence, 92 outposts, 134-137 Surprise, value of, 25, 29-31, 51, 175 fire, 31, 38 historical examples, 12, 30, 63, 77-78, 118, 124, 138 Tactical advanced guard, 103 reconnaissance, 140-143 Tactics and strategy, 6-23 definition of, 6, 8 subservient to strategy, 6-8 Tadpole Copse, 75 Talavera, battle of, 92 Tallard, Marechal, 46 Tanks, characteristics of, 171, 174-175 in close country, 22, 160, 162, 177 Taube Farm, 139 Taylor, Gen. R., C.S. Army (_quoted_):-- cardinal principles, 1 discipline, 11 Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 151-152 Territorial troops, 19, 43 Teutoberger Wald, 156-157 Text-books, value of, 23 Theatre of operations, 6-7 Thermopylae, battle of, 77 Thielmann's Corps (Wavre), 8 Thomas, Gen. G. H., U.S.A., 15 Time, value of, 12 Tofrik, battle of, 156 Torres Vedras, lines of, 82-83 Toski, battle of, 156 Toulouse, battle of, 47 Trench warfare, 81-82 Trenches, fire, 165 Troisvilles, 66 Trones Wood, 42 Tubize and Hal, 78 Tweefontein, 138 Types of battle action, 45-50