March! Hait! Drefs! Halt! (thereby uncovered the one behind it (which, as already mentioned, immediately moves forward) he then places himfelf on its left.-As foon as his own front is clear, he gives his word March! his divifion proceeds, and he himself in due time advances to the right of the preceding divifion then on the line, and from thence gives his words Halt! Drefs! when his own left joins fuch right, he corrects his divifion on the right, and refumes his poft in fquadron. The markers of intervals, standard, and ferrefiles, proceed as already mentioned. All the other divifions fucceffively are conducted in the fame manner, until the right one (which has been marching critically in the alignement, and on no account getting before it) receives, when it arrives on its juft ground, Wheel up!-March! the words, to Halt-Front Halt! Halt! Drefs! Land Drefs. Fig. 39. 3. On a central Divifion. Forming points (D. D.) must be given to both flanks in the prolongation of the head divifion.-At the CAUTION of forming on a central divifion, the leading officers, and the ferrefiles will shift accordingly. The divifions in front of the named one wheel to one flank; thofe in the rear of it to the other, according to the hand which leads to their ground.— The named divifion, when uncovered, moves up into line to its marked flank; thofe that were in front of it proceed as in forming on a rear divifion; thofe that are in rear of it, proceed as in forming on a front divifion. 1 Fig. 40. 41. S. 62. When the Column of Half Squadrons forms Column of Squadrons. CAUTION! THREE'S LEFT WHEEL! A CAUTION is given that the rear half fquadrons will form fquadrons.——At the word,THREE'S WHEEL!&C. the rear halffquadrons wheel (always to the pivot flank) and their leaders pafs fideways, fo as to be clear of their rank. At MARCH! Halt! Three's wheel up! Halt! Drefs! CAUTION! MARCH! HALT! DRESS! r At the word MARCH! the leaders ftand faft, the coverer of each conducts the divifion, and the leader of each, when it has cleared the ftanding divifion, gives the word to Halt! Wheel up! &c. &c. when he arrives at the one he is to join. -The ferrefiles, as foon as they have the opportunity, place themselves in rank behind their fquadrons, at half a horfe distance. A CAUTION is given to clofe diftance to the front.The fquadrons move at the word MARCH! by the pivot flank, and each receives the word HALT! DRESS! when his fquadron has clofed.--The whole ftand in clofe column of fquadrons, with a distance of half a horse between ranks, of a horfe between fquadrons, and of two horfes between regiments. Fig. 37. S. 63. When the clofe Column of Squadrons is to deploy into Line. i. On the Front Divifion. THE CAUTION of deployment is given, the iine is prolonged, and attendant circumstances prepared.The fquadrons deploy, and arrive in line in the fame manner, and by the fame commands, as the half fquadrons. The ferrefiles in their places accompany the movements of their divifions. Fig. 38. Fig. 39. This deployment is alfo perfectly fimilar to that by half fquadrons. The double operation of forming in a front and rear divifion, is the fame as for the half fquadrons. The Column must be always well clofed up before it deploys.When it deploys on a front divifion, the three's wheel to the pivot flank, which becomes the leading leading one. When it deploys on the rear divivision, the three's wheel from the pivot flank, which then becomes the following one. The clofe column, when it forms line on a front, or rear divifion, may either be halted, or in motion to its flank. From this fituation of the flank march, it is that every regiment is required to begin the deploy, when forming in line with others, and therefore must be much practised by the regiment when fingle.-When the formation into line is made on a central divifion, it must always begin from the halt of the clofe column. The regiment should also in exercise deploy on the front divifion, when in march, as it is the method by which parts of the line reform after being broken by an obstacle; and of lengthening out the flank of a line that may be in movement. Although the quickest, most exact, and general method of deployment, requires that the regiment before deploying should stand perpendicular to the line on which it is to form; yet it may fometimes happen, that the immediate deployment of a column may be demanded on a line oblique to the one on which it then stands, and that circumstances do not permit of the previous operation of placing it perpendicular to that line. |