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...sure his victory may not be the capture of a trench, but perchance this nation may be greater for his patience...
targets. An elaborate course in bayonet work was also inaugurated as the officers had received little or no instruction in the manual now in general use on the Western Front. A system of trenches patterned after those at Fresh Pond was outlined and trench duties including the mechanism of relief's were explained fully. Much time was present, too, in the organization of French platoons and in drilling them in the various formations used in the regimental exercises at Barre...
Lectured on Trench Warfare...
...evening, members of the "mission" gave a series of lectures on trench warfare, based on the book by Cok Azan, treating the various phases of the subject. Patterson, who had received training in the Yale Battery at New Haven, spoke on the uses and importance of modern artillery...
...Captains Cordier and Bowen and also the regular non-commissioned officers were at this time ordered away from Cambridge by the War Department, but the French officers and Captain Shannon remained. During the month in barracks the time was taken up with maneuvers on Soldiers Field, military map sketching, trench construction at Fresh Pond, and combat exercises at Waverly and elsewhere. Section meetings in the mornings and afternoon were devoted to the study of the Infantry Drill Regulations, the Field Service Regulations, the Small Arms Firing Manual, Bjornstad's "Minor Problems for Infantry," and map sketching. Lectures by the French...