They managed to put ten infantry divisions and one cavalry division against us in the first three weeks, but they were not comparable in strength to our seven infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions.

While the interminable line of the infantry regiments was passing, there was a move to the back of the box, where there was a table with ices, champagne, etc.

General Godwin was told over the telephone that the infantry attack was held up and that his brigade would advance to take Mughar.

There were two kinds; one, also called a spontoon, formerly carried by infantry officers; the other, used on ships for repelling boarders, a boarding-pike,'N.E.D. which quotes (inter alia) Massinger, &c., Old Law (4to, 1656), Act iii, II: 'Here's a half-pike'; and Froger, Voyages (1698): 'Their ordinary Arms are the Hanger, the Sagary (assagai), which is a very light Half-Pike.' p. 245 Geometry.

The French Government allows 444 feet for each infantry soldier, and 518 feet for each man in the cavalry.

They were all beaten off by infantry fire, and the reliefs of the various brigades of the XXIst Corps were complete by November 28.

At six o'clock in the evening the Turks were holding this position in strength against the 3rd Australian Light Horse, but two infantry brigades of the 53rd Division were moving towards the ridge, and during the evening the enemy retired and we held the ridge from this time on quite securely.

Reinforcements for infantry battalions moved up the road as we came down it.

RUSSIAN INFANTRY CHARGES "Back behind us, on the extreme left, I was told the Russians were attacking the German trenches by an infantry charge, the German field telephone service having apprised the commanders along the front.

Fine-looking men they were, too, these infantry-men, bronzed, well-built fellows, with heavy, high cheek-bones, longish noses, black mustaches, and dark eyes, who, whatever their qualities of initiative might be, looked to have no end of endurance and ability to stay put.

On the 10th of September part of our Second Army Corps, advancing into the north, found itself marching parallel with another infantry force some little distance away.

The infantry captain, a transient steamboat acquaintance, used often afterward to say that he never saw anything prettier than those four wildly gladdened ladies unveiling in the shade of their parasols.

CONTINUATION OF THE GREAT BATTLE On July 2 and 3, the battle of the Somme continued without cessation of infantry fighting, while the big guns thundered on both sides.

As we arrived at the right wing we witnessed the last of a Russian infantry advance at that end.

The 75th Division prolonged the infantry line through Gharbiyeh to Berberah.

All the rules of war must be reversed in face of this obstacle, and the assault on General Hooker's works seemed destined to be made in column of infantry companies, and with the artillery moving in column of pieces.

The enemy became alarmed and attacked the cavalry in force early next morning, 1000 infantry marching on Muannis.

The batteries of the Allies and their infantry trenches, being so much farther away, were less plainly visible.

" Back in the wood the infantry colonel, from a vantage-point half-way up a tall tree, watched the ensuing duel with the keenest excitement.

Afterwards there was also an infantry battle.

For surely they do not intend to employ infantry tactics against us on the sea, nor on the other hand are they prepared to shut themselves up as it were in wooden walls and undergo a siege, since that would be decidedly to our advantageI mean assaulting wooden barriers.

We have a cantonnement de régiment again, and this time the most interesting that we have ever had,the 23d Dragoons, men on active service, who are doing infantry work in the trenches at Tracy-le-Val, in the Forêt de Laigue, the nearest point to Paris, in the battle-front.

This consisted of General Buford's cavalry division, which had pushed on in advance of General Reynolds's infantry corps, the foremost infantry of the Federal army, and now, almost before it was aware of Hill's presence, became engaged with him.

PRINCIPLES OF INFANTRY TRAINING.

The infantry arms are about 32,000, the greater part Mauser model 1895, caliber 28, and the others Remingtons, model 1889, caliber 43.