Our present manoeuvres are, as already mentioned, only occasionally a school for officers in a strategical sense, and from the tactical point of view they do not meet modern requirements.

" The manoeuvre was a repetition of the one she and her brother had executed a few minutes before, and was their only hope.

The first manoeuvre of the Water-witch was an attempt to gain the wind of her pursuer.

In his eyes "all the manoeuvres of La Fayette were so many attacks on the queen; and his attacks on the queen were so many steps to bring him within reach of the king.

What the result of so singular a manoeuvre would have been, it is impossible to say; it would certainly have proved one of the strangest incidents of a war fruitful in varied and shifting events.