sep 10, 1918 - The First Recruitment

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A partisan detachment, which must be able to launch sudden attacks
and elude pursuers, naturally depends on excellent reconnaissance.
That's why the Makhnovist detachment in the period of struggle with
the Austro-German occupiers already had
its own reconnaissance unit. This unit was
set up by former frontier guards, who
were more familiar with this sort of work
than other veterans. The reconnaissance
unit assured success in the famous battle
for Bolshaya Mikhaylovka in September
1918, after which Makhno was declared
a "batko". This victory by the remnants of
the exhausted Makhnovist detachment
over superior forces became possible only
because of the reconnaissance of the en-
emy's dispositions in the village. Makhno recalled how, along the
route of the detachment's advance, the reconnaissance unit "checked
out each bush, each knoll, each gully, and thereby protected the
detachment from ambushes and sudden attacks by the enemy."

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