piquetting

Updated: May 10, 2025

Here, as in all mountain fighting, the cardinal principle was piquetting the heights that is to say, the necessity of sending up piquets from the advanced-guard, who deny to the enemy all commanding eminences, before the main body and transport move up the defile which those eminences command.

H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock - With the British Army in The Holy Land

This patrol commander had paid attention to, and illustrated the soundness of, the cardinal principles of mountain fighting, namely, the necessity for seizing and piquetting the commanding heights, and the support of the movement of one party of troops by the fire of other parties already in position.

H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock - With the British Army in The Holy Land