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The presence of a tactically immovable artillery hinders the action of an Asiatic army. The mounted men are usually the first to leave when the fight is going against their side in a general engagement. One of the best specimens of their tactics was at Ahmed-Kheyl, on the Ghazni-Kandahar road, when the British division was one hundred miles from any support.
The action of the English cavalry, as at Ahmed-Kheyl, was suicidal in receiving the enemy's charge practically at a halt. Occasionally shelter trenches were used, but disapproved. The opposition to dismounted cavalry duty is still so great, in the British army, that the mounted arm is paralyzed for effective service. Very little was done by the horse artillery with the Kuram column.
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