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It is desirable for a column escorting a large baggage train -- and this is essentially the predicament of civilised troops engaged in frontier mountain warfare -- to be collected in camp before nightfall, otherwise the enemy may be given unduly favourable opportunities of employing harassing methods.
But it does not result that the situation of troops unable, for any cause, to reach camp, is at all desperate.