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- From: Max Abramowitz <madmax@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
- Subject: Re: Infantry in square
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:31:43 GMT
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- From Max Abramowitz <madmax@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
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- In <BzzCr8.HL@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Mike Campbell
- <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz> writes:
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- [lots o' stuff deleted]
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- >I have also read two accounts of Austrian Infantry at Dresden,
- >Mesko's Divison on the far left of the allied line. In one account
- >(the least reliable) the infantry formed square when confronted by
- >French cav, and were asked to surrender, as their muskets wouldn't
- >work in the rain. The Austrian General is said to have replied that
- >the cavalry couldn't charge in the mud either, so he wouldn't
- >surrender. At this point the cavalry revealed a number of guns lined
- >up on the squares, and the infantry surrendered (apparently Napoleon
- >had hitched every available animal to enable the guns to move in the
- >mud).
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- I always thought one of Napoleons military innovations was the use of
- *MEN* to move artillery instead of animals.
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- max abramowitz
- madmax@cs.uchicago.edu
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