Rifle, the, 16; magazine, cavalry armed with, 50 Rifle fire compared with horse artillery fire effect, 117 Romer, General, 204 Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles, 12 Rozhestvenski, fleet of, 131 Rupert, his defeat, 34 Ruskin, sayings of, 25, 155 Russian successes in Central Asia, 7; officers, 76, 217; campaign of 1812, 89 Russians, 146, 149-51 Saddles, General Romer on, 204 St. Cyr, General, 85 Samsonov, General, 8 Sands, seaside, digging hasty field fortifications at, 213 Scabbard, steel, 10 Schmidt, Von, his _Instructions for Cavalry_, 4, 5, 29, 33, 38, 41, 108, 164, 177, 178 Scouts, 127, 130, 142 Section leaders, competition of, 184-185 Seydlitz, 3, 80, 193 Shaikh Sadi, sayings of, 128, 154 Shakespeare, 128, 167 Sherman, General, 149 Shock action, 4; tactics, 4, 13, 52 Shooting of cavalry, 208 “Show” teams, 182 Small horse for war, 20; wars distract attention from essentials, 18 South Africa, cost of horse-flesh in, 18; mounting of our cavalry in, 21 South African War, 59, 74, 81, 97, 106, 134, 147, 161, 213; operations, 1899-1902, erroneous conclusions from, 8 South Africans, 13 Sowars, 12 Spaits, Captain, 110 Squadron, the training of a, 177; leader, 179-80, 200 Squadrons, competition of, 212 Stamina of horse essential, 22 Sticky leading, 78; action, 80 Stuart, General, 145, 146 Swimming as an exercise for cavalrymen, 210-11 Sword, 10-16 Tactics of Cavalry _v._ Cavalry, 29 Tactics, Parthian, 1, 82; Zulu, 4 Tax-payer of Great Britain and lessons from war, 8 Telissu, cavalry at battle of, 8 Theoretical instruction, 214 Tracking, etc., 141 Ulm, campaign of, 98, 141; despatch-riding in, 141 Union of arms, 88 Unison of arms, 50 Verdy du Vernois on the possibilities of cavalry, 6; on the sword, 12 Veterinary Department and their book, _Animal Management_, 25 Volley firing, 17 Von der Goltz, 10, 69, 93, 97, 161, 162, 167 Walers (Australian), horses, bred for size, speed, etc., 23 Waterloo, battle of, 3 Weaker cavalry, rôle of, 95 Wellington, Duke of, 42, 185 Wet saddle-blankets to be carefully avoided, 204 Wheeler’s raid, 149 Wolseley, Lord, 122 Wood and Edmonds, their _Civil War in the United States_, 149 Wrangel, in _Cavalry in the Japanese War_, 135 Xenophon, advice _re_ stable management, 1; on purchasing of horse, 23; and Argesilaus, 208 Yeomanry as a national and imperial asset, 97 Yinkov, raid to, 150 Ziethen, 3, 80 Zulu tactics, 4 Zulus, _modus operandi_ of the, 190 THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_ FOOTNOTES