Cossacks' daring raid on an austrian convoy. Drawing from the war illustrated. The caption reads:
in spite of modern conditions of warfare, which render the regular use of cavalry impossible, the redoubtable cossacks sometimes get the opportunity to attack isolated enemy transport columns. Recently a large number of wagons were "spotted" from an observation post, and a detachment of russian raiders hid in a wood until the austrian camp-fires flickered out. They then charged down on the convoy, throwing hand-grenades among the wagons, which were reduced to chaos. The cossacks then retreated to the wood followed by hungarian cavalry, who, however, dared not pursue them into the treacherous marshes. Date: February 1916.
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