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Reason for Operations by Night (Secrecy; Frederick the Great's

Coat)--Night Marches (Direction; Protection; Secrecy;

Connection)--"Rules of Thumb"--Night Advances (Surprise;

Direction; Position of Deployment; Connection)--Night

Assaults (First Battle of the Somme; Serre Hill; Vimy Ridge;

Messines-Wytschaete; Villers Brétonneux; Morlancourt;

Spottsylvania)--Limitations of Night Assaults--Smoke and its

advantages and disadvantages--Successful and unsuccessful Night

Assaults (Rappahannock Station--Peiwar Kotal--Tel-el-Kebir;

Stormberg; Magersfontein)--Position of Deployment--Distinguishing

Badges, etc.--Watchword--Precautions against

Checks--Secrecy--"Rules of Thumb."

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