could not be
distinctly seen from a distance. Here the French found their career
suddenly checked by a great hollow, full of buildings, pools of water,
and clusters of trees; while the Allied infantry, from behind the
various covers afforded by the ground, opened upon them a destructive
fire. Being then suddenly charged in flank by the Russian cavalry, they
were driven back with heavy loss; the Allies recapturing twenty of the
twenty-six guns they had lost.

The troopers employed to scout the ground before a charge would not be
in much danger from the enemy, who would hardly fire on a horseman or
two, especially when expecting a charge.

11. Cavalry must never pursue, unless its supports are _close at hand_.

In pursuing, it must be circumspect, and not go too far. Union and order
are indispensable; for, without them, a slight resistance may suffice to
cause a repulse.

VIII.--Its Attack on Infantry.

First, as to its ATTACK GENERALLY.
Secondly, its attack ON SQUARES.

A. GENERALLY.

1. Cavalry must avoid _distant engagements_ with infantry; in which the
latter must always have the advantage.

2. The slightest cavalry charge on the _flank_ of infantry will rout it.

3. As to a cavalry attack _in front_: If the infantry stand firm, the
chances are against its success. If the infantry cannot be attacked in
flank, the cavalry should therefore wait till it has been shattered by
artillery, or has become exhausted, or demoralized, or till it begins to
manoeuvre.

4. If the infantry be _in line_, or _in column_, cavalry should attack
it in flank; if _in square_, at one of its angles; if _in several
squares_, at one of its flank ones, so as to avoid a cross-fire from the
other squares. If a flank square be broken, the next one to it, being no
longer protected by the fire of any other square, may be attacked with
the same prospect of success; and so on successively.

5. But if the hostile infantry have _supporting cavalry_, we must not
charge in such a manner as to enable it to take us in flank.

6. To _test the infantry_ about to be attacked, cavalry may pass a few
hundred paces in its front, to threaten it, sending forward a few
horsemen to fire, gallop forward, and raise a dust. If the infantry,
instead of disregarding these movements, begin to fire, it will probably
be broken, on the cavalry's charging it at once and vigorously, whether
in column or in line. But otherwise, if the infantry reserve its fire,