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Marto's Men
consisted in burning cane, shooting at Spanish forts
by night to keep the soldiers awake, circling around
the towns, and having small hand-to-hand skirmishes,
when possible, with the local guerillas; — the semi-
offensive warfare that lack of ammunition makes
necessary for the insurgents in Cuba. Marto's men
rarely camped two nights in the same place, and so
they were secure against preconcerted attack. The
camp was ready to move at a moment's notice. All
they had to do was to throw the camp kettles in a big
straw pack-saddle on the back of the star mule, blow
two notes on the whistle, meaning "To horse!" and
march off through forest paths or among canefields
to some covered spot a mile or so away and camp
for the night.
Marto's troopers were noticeably proficient in a
natural form of the skirmish drill that is so much
studied by our United States cavalry. They rode
the country in single or double file, according to
circumstances. Whenever palm groves and clumps
of underbrush made a cover to the right or left,
flankers in twos or threes galloped forward, without command, sometimes for two hundred yards,
poking into every thicket that might conceal an
enemy.
In the United States cavalry service we have
a drill in which odd numbers, of specified sets of
fours, trot or gallop to one side of the column, and
even numbers to the other, or ahead, as the case
may be, as scouts and flankers. It would have
worried an American cavalry officer to see files
leave the column at will; but the ease and security
with which Marto's little force travelled, proved
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000118 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Marto's Men consisted in burning cane, shooting at Spanish forts by night to keep the soldiers awake, circling around the towns, and having small hand-to-hand skirmishes, when possible, with the local guerillas; — the semi- offensive warfare that lack of ammunition makes necessary for the insurgents in Cuba. Marto's men rarely camped two nights in the same place, and so they were secure against preconcerted attack. The camp was ready to move at a moment's notice. All they had to do was to throw the camp kettles in a big straw pack-saddle on the back of the star mule, blow two notes on the whistle, meaning "To horse!" and march off through forest paths or among canefields to some covered spot a mile or so away and camp for the night. Marto's troopers were noticeably proficient in a natural form of the skirmish drill that is so much studied by our United States cavalry. They rode the country in single or double file, according to circumstances. Whenever palm groves and clumps of underbrush made a cover to the right or left, flankers in twos or threes galloped forward, without command, sometimes for two hundred yards, poking into every thicket that might conceal an enemy. In the United States cavalry service we have a drill in which odd numbers, of specified sets of fours, trot or gallop to one side of the column, and even numbers to the other, or ahead, as the case may be, as scouts and flankers. It would have worried an American cavalry officer to see files leave the column at will; but the ease and security with which Marto's little force travelled, proved |
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