It is especially in mountainous country, or cut up by woods and marshes, that it is important to observe this maxim, for equipages and convoys being stopped in defile, the enemy's manoeuvres may easily disperse the escorts, or attack with complete success the whole army, when, by the nature of the ground it is obliged to march in a long drawn column. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 171 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1976 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com