Our heavily equipped troops and our officers trained to the square or the phalanx formation of pitched battles were hard put to it to adapt themselves to that war of skirmishes and surprise attacks which, even in open country, retained the techniques of street fighting.
Gure tropak, astunki ekipatuak, eta gure ofizialak, bataila konbentzionaletako lauki-edo falange-formaziora ohituak, larri ibili ziren oso, mendialdean guduxkaz eta segadaz beteriko eta lautadan, berriz, iraulketa zibilaren teknikei orpoz orpo jarraitzen zièn gerla-mota hartara egokitu arte.