Excerpt from Cavalry Outpost Duties The adoption and utilization as far as possible, by the Germans, of the instructions given by de Brack, and the entire forgetfulness of them by the French, are sufficient to account for the many displays of useless gallantry on the part of the latter, and the only partial successes of the former, from the American point of view, in the franco-prussian War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.