Excerpt from Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Vol. 30: Royal Engineers Institute, Occasional Papers, 1904 In the first place the forces engaged are in the field for such a short time during peace operations, and the area is so limited, that it is not necessary to organize transport on the scale demanded by an army in war; and in the second place, manoeuvres take place in populated countries, in which the conditions of fighting are very different from those which Obtain in the regions in which most of our wars are carried on. But it is precisely for the reason that our wars are usually waged in inhospitable countries that the question of the transport of supplies in war acquires additional importance. In civilized countries convoys, following in rear of great armies to provide for their supplies Of food and munitions of war, are merely baggage columns covered by the broad extension of the forces which they follow, and are seldom subject to other molestation than that of small marauding bands or of hostile inhabitants. It is not with convoys such as these that I propose to deal now nor will space allow of my dealing with railway and water convoys, which may be considered as separate subjects. I will confine my remarks to transport convoys moving through a hostile country convoys dependent entirely on themselves for their own security when on the march. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.