[The numerals refer to pages]
Abstract ideas of degree, 50.
Accessible ground, 100, 101, 119.
Accommodating oneself to the enemy, 145, 148.
Adaptation to circumstances, 23.
Aides-de-camp, 171.
“Aids to Scouting,” quoted, 88, 89, 107, 164.
Alliances, 60, 119, 140, 142.
Allotments of land, 62.
Alps, crossings of the, 57.
Amiot, Père, vii, 1.
Anger, succeeded by gladness, 159.
Army, divisions of the, 17, 33.
Army on the march, 140.
Arsenals, burning of, 151.
“Art of War,” quoted by Han Hsin, 144.
Art of war in a nutshell, 44.
Athletics, 124.
Attack, skill in, 28.
Attack and defence, 25, 44.
Autumn hair, 29.
Baden-Powell, General. _See_ “Aids to Scouting.”
Baggage, 58.
Baggage-train, 60.
Baggage-trains, burning of, 151.
Bait, offered by the enemy, 68.
Balancing of chances, 31.
Banners. _See_ Flags and banners.
Bases of supply, 60.
Beasts, startled, sign of surprise attack, 89.
Belgians at Waterloo, 130.
Benevolence to spies, 170.
Biot’s _Chou Li_, ix.
Birds rising, sign of ambuscade, 89.
Blücher, 48.
Bluster, 95.
Boers, 18.
“Book of Army Management,” 63.
Buff-coats, 58.
Burning one’s boats, 133.
Calamities, six, 105.
Calthrop, Capt.: his edition of Sun Tzŭ’s text, xxxii; his translation
of Sun Tzŭ, viii; quoted, _passim_.
Camp, shifting, 133.