K&C "Broken Square" Display (2 Viewers)

[kilted vampire]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!

British Revisionist History


VIVE LA NAPOLEON !!!!

My dear Friend . A little diplomacy goes a long way. Ta.

 

[Capitolron]

KV

For diplomacy - you must have a 100 or more posts !

 

[Harrytheheid]

That looks right up my alley. Thanks for the literary tip, H.

MD

You're welcome Dave.
At 413 pages for a tenner it's excellent value as well as being a pretty good read. Very even handed in the way it handles both the British and Dervish points of view. Gordon and Kitchener come out of it with reputations enhanced but Wolesley and Evelyn Wood take a bit of a verbal hiding.

Cheers
H

 

[pwalms]

At Tamai the 42 charged (under orders) out of square formation leaving a gap. That is certainly not the same as having the "square broken", by the enemy action.
Point is this, the square formed by resolute trained infantry with ammo was not broken by cavalry action! (The main point of a square).Obviously the formation was very prone to cannon fire as the Inniskillens found out.

 

[aujj65]

Point is this, the square formed by resolute trained infantry with ammo was not broken by cavalry action! (The main point of a square).

This actually happened during the Peninsular War, the day after the Battle of Salamanca at Garcia Hernandez on the 23rd July 1812.
This action is known for being one of the few times that cavalry has managed to break a formed infantry square. The honour goes to the King's German Legion's General Bock, who set his 450 men on to three battalions of French infantry retreating after the battle of Salamanca. The four KGL squadrons charged uphill, broke the square and then proceeded to rout a column; it appears that the infantry waited too long to fire leading to the extraordinary accident of a dead horse and rider smashing into the square.
Bock's men suffered 150 casualties while General Foy's shocked defenders lost 1400 men.

Jeff