Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — Forming Squares. [ARTICLE]

Forming Squares.

It is remarkable that recent tatics in the Soudan, when we formed squares to resist the rush of our fanatical opponents, are simply a copy of those which Napoleon was compelled to adopt in that part of the world nearby a century ago. The Mamelukes, who were his most dangerous antagonists, were better trained and better mounted than any calvary he had to bring against them, and, moreover, greatly outnumbered the French squadrons. He was obliged, therefore, to rely entirely on his artillery and infantry, and these were formed into squares, with the guns at the angles, just as our troops were drawn up to stem the rushes at El Teh and Tamai. At Ulundi our formation was the same, and, like us on that occasion, we read that Napolcan placed his baggage and calvary in the center of the square, and when the foe was beaten launched the horsemen to the pursuit just as we loose our squadrons on the Zulus.—[Satvrday Review. Mr. and Mrs. Hays, of Philadelphia, have been married seventy years, and are living in a house in North Thirteenth steet which was built eighty years ago by Mrs. Hays’s father,in. what was then a pasture lot. Mr. Hays was* one of the “directors” of the famous “Underground Railroad,” which, after the passage of the Fugitive Slave law, helped bring so many negroes North.