THE ESSENTIALS OF GOOD SKIRMISHING
THE ESSENTIALS OF GOOD SKIRMISHING:
SECOND EDITION.
TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED,
A BRIEF SYSTEM OF
COMMON LIGHT INFANTRY DRILL;
A METHOD OF PRACTICE FOR
THE SPEEDY ACQUIREMENT OF PROFICIENCY IN THE USE OF THE RIFLE;
AND SHORT OBSERVATIONS ON SERVICEABLE APPOINTMENTS AND DRESS.
BY
COLONEL G. GAWLER, K.H.
Late of the 52nd Light Infantry.
LONDON:
PARKER, FURNIVALL, AND PARKER,
MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL.
1852
LONDON:
SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS,
CHANDOS STREET.
TO
SIR JOHN MACDONALD, K.C.B.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL TO THE FORCES,
THE FOLLOWING REMARKS,
IN REFERENCE TO ONE OF THE BRANCHES OF THE SERVICE
COMMITTED TO HIS ESPECIAL SUPERINTENDENCE,
ARE, BY PERMISSION,
MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY HIS VERY OBEDIENT
AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.
August, 1837.
CONTENTS.
I.  The Essentials of Good Skirmishing13
 
II.  A system of Common Light Infantry Drill, adapted to the Long Range Rifle35
 
III.  A Method of Practice for the Speedy Acquirement of Proficiency in the Use of the Rifle51
 
IV.  Short Observations on Dress and Appointments59
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
Under the immense increase which is now taking place inthe length of range and accuracy in effect of small arms,there must, of necessity, come an increase of the importanceof skill in skirmishing. The reconnoissances of mountedstaff officers, the patrolling, skirmishing, and menacing ofcharges by small bodies of cavalry, and even the action ofartillery on that very large proportion of the surface of theearth in which vision is limited to at most one thousandyards, will be greatly controlled by the accurate and distantinfantry marksman. Nay, even columns and linesof infantry will now only be able to repel his power ofdestructive annoyance by meeting him with t                        
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