places assigned to them, and ask ourselves — what next? Certainly not what the scaremongers would have us believe—a landing one day, a rush on London the next. There can be no flinging of men and horses on shore; slowly, laboriously, in carefully arranged order of precedence, the contents of the transports must be conveyed to the beach. The main body of Infantry first, to protect the landing of the horses, guns, wagons, stores, etc.—for now, at last, all hope of concealment has vanished, and every step will be taken as in the presence of an enemy, beginning with the position taken up by the troopships, which must lie well out of range of field Artillery, though every furlong farther off land will be a handicap.[1]
It will be no light task to put 41,000 men, at each of the six landing-places, nearly
- ↑ "The greater range of modern artillery compels the transports to anchor further away from the shore than obtained in past days." —Military Expeditions Beyond the Seas, by Colonel G. A. Furse, C.B., p. 289.
