Abridgment of the Field exercise and evolutions of the infantry, for the militia1854 |
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adjutant advance alignment battalion points centre company changes of position close column close or quarter colours column at quarter column formation commanding officer countermarch covering serjeants defilé deployment deploys direct echellon directing serjeant divi division wheeling double column Double March Dress field officers flank company form line formed in line front company front or rear front rank give the word jeant leaders leading division leading flank LEFT SHOULDERS FORWARD left wing ment mounted officer movable pivot move movement named company non-commissioned officers number of paces oblique open column outward panies parallel perpendicular pivot files pivot flank placed point of appui preserve quarter distance column rear companies rear divisions rear rank receive the word REMAINING COMPANIES reverse flank RIGHT ABOUT FACE RIGHT OR LEFT second file sions six paces successively supernumerary rank taken talion tion wheel forward wheel of divisions wheeling back whole word FORWARD word HALT word QUICK MARCH
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Page 31 - HOW formed. 2. The oblique changes are produced by the wheel (less than the quarter circle) of divisions, which places them in the echellon situation. The direct changes are produced by the perpendicular and successive march of divisions from line to front or rear.
Page 31 - Echellon position and movements are not only necessary and applicable to the immediate attack and retreat of great bodies, but also to the oblique or direct changes of situation, which a Battalion or more considerable Corps, already formed in line, may be obliged to make to the front or rear, on a fixed particular division of the line.
Page 16 - Eyes front, when they will pass to the rear. The covering serjeant of the next company will also remain steady until the third company from him receives the words Eyes front, and so on until the line is formed. In this manner each covering serjeant will have two points to cover upon ; and each division will always have two points upon which it will be brought parallel to the general line, and independent of the divisions already formed; and if the points are well taken up, and the divisions properly...
Page 23 - On the caution, officers move to the centre of their companies, one pace from the front rank ; their covering Serjeants place themselves on the right of each, if the wheel is to be to the left, or behind the pivot file, if the wheel is to be to the right, and a serjeant of the leading company of the battalion runs up and places himself in the new alignement, to mark where the wheeling flank of that company is to rest.
Page 44 - WHEN the companies join, and the battalion is formed, there is to be no interval between any of them, grenadier, light company, or other ; but every part of the front of the battalion should be equally strong. Each company which makes a part of the same line, and is to act in it, must be formed and arranged in the same manner.
Page 45 - It is to be observed, that there are no coverers in the centre rank to the officers or colours. The colours are placed between the fourth and fifth battalion companies, both in the front rank, and each covered by a non-commissioned officer, or steady man in the rear rank.— One...
Page 41 - Enemy's fire has been overcome, or at any favorable moment that may present itself, the Column will charge briskly forward, and make good the ground it is contending for. In Retiring, the leading Division will give its fire ; Slope Arms ; Face outwards by Sub-divisions ; File to the rear; Re-form Company ; Load; and remain halted, until its front is again clear, or the whole Column is put in motion. The moment the front of the second Company is clear it will give its...
Page 7 - And, indeed, every officer must be accustomed to give his words of command, even to the smallest bodies, in the full extent of his voice, and in a sharp tone, in order to be heard by the leaders of other corps who are dependent on his motions.
Page 29 - Divisions make a half face to the wheeling flank : but at quarter distance, the leading Division will advance six paces on the Word " QUICK (OR DOUBLE) MARCH," and will wheel round the pivot File at a shortened pace, while each succeeding Division will advance, in circling round, to quarter Distance, which will leave room for the rear Divisions to circle into their relative positions at that distance.
Page 13 - ALIGNEMENT is to make troopsmarch in any straight line which joins two given points, — or to form upon any such given line. 2. In formations of defence the lines occupied may be curved, and following the advantages of the ground, but in those of attack, the lines must be straight, otherwise the troops in advancing must inevitably fall into confusion. 3. When troops are to form in a straight line, two necessary points in it must always be previously ascera.