How many Russian officers know and care for their men? For some reason or other they rarely mix with or among them, and know nothing of them or their habits, and bitter are the fruits they reap in war. This is plain speaking, but it is in accordance with the dictates of common-sense that the superior and inferior must become of one mind in order to carry out their duties adequately. By whatever means it may be done, it is the duty of every officer to check cynicism and grumbling amongst his subordinates, and to develop a high _moral_. It has been said that it is the “soldier’s privilege to grumble.” This is an absolutely wrong view; it is, instead, his glory not to grumble, but to face every kind of danger and trouble unflinchingly, and to make the best of it. Small worries overcome prepare the mind for facing great emergencies.[110] With such a feeling throughout a regiment, what may it not do? Every man becomes a hero and a leader. The conduct of 500 heroes may temper the mind of an army. INDEX Abd-el-Kader, 23 Abdur-Rahman, 2 Afghan War, officers of the 9th Lancers in the, 14 Afghans, Sir Montague Gerard and the, 11 Aids, conventional, 194; natural, 195 Alexander the Great, 1 Alexander, General, 26, 145 Amateur officers entirely out of place in war, 97 American Civil War, 73, 135 American view of British cavalry in South African operations, 8 Arab horses, a type bred for war, 23; proverb, 52 Arabs’ old-world wisdom as regards the horse, 23 Aristocracy in the armies of the French Republic, 97 Armament, 10 Artillery fire, relative effect of, 46 Artillery, horse, 26, 41 Atlanta campaign, 149 Attachment to other arms on the part of officers, 159 Attila with his Hunnish squadrons, 2 _Australian Commonwealth, Manual of_, 55 Australians as horsemen, 13 Ballistics from horseback, 5 Basuto pony, 21 Batteries of horse artillery, 5 Bayonet of German cavalry, 10 Bernhardi, Von, on bayonet, 11, 147; cavalry literature by, 17; _Cavalry in Future Wars_, 52, 77, 90, 94, 99, 169, 187; _Cavalry in War and Peace_, 62, 66, 95, 208; on fundamental principles of action, 101 Birch, Major Noel, 192 Boers, 71, 75, 82, 99, 133, 134 Boer system of training a horse, 197 Bloch, De, 5, 113 Blücher, 3, 85, 128 Bonie, Colonel, 6, 7 Botha, General, 75 “Boy Scouts,” 142 Brack, De, 7, 35, 37, 126, 135, 147, 171, 173 Brigade, the, 41-48 British cavalry ahead of continental cavalry in fire tactics, 17; ignorance of horses, 18; inflation of idea as to size of horse required, 21; horse bred for size, speed, etc., 23 Campaigning, horse-management in, 24 Canadians as horsemen, 13 Canterbury system of horse training, 196 Cape Colony as a source of horse-supply, 21 Carrago nose-band, 201 “Casse cou,” 87