"When the general orders the attack, the line advances at a walk, quickens to a trot, and when two hundred paces from the enemy, the cavalry gives the horses free rein and gallops at full speed."
- --Frederick the Great, Werke, VI, pp. 301-303
from Jay Luvaas' "Frederick the Great on the Art of War"
"It is axiomatic that you must secure your own flanks and rear, and turn those of the enemy."
- --Jay Luvaas' "Frederick the Great on the Art of War, " page 176
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