Excerpt from Letters on Applied Tactics Twenty-Four Tactical Exercises: Dealing With the Operations of Small Detached Forces of the Three Arms; With Numerous Examples of Actual Orders In places, however, the German organisation betrays itself, e.g., in the constantly-recurring expression two companies - the nearest equivalent for the German company (nominally 250 strong on war footing, which, however, for tactical pur poses may be reckoned as 200 rifles). The four-company organisation of the German battalion also leaves its impress on the distribution of the outposts in the last few letters, though these are perhaps the most valuable in the book. It may be as well to add that the sketches of outpost formations, &c., were not in the original work. 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.