General ob- and of regiments) are marked on the margin in fervation. CAPITALS. The words of command given by leaders of half fquadrons, divifions, or sub-divifions, are marked on the margin in Italics. S. 24. CAUTION! At the CAUTION, that the regiment will wheel forward (to the right or left) into open column of!————each fquadron from its leading flank will send out a non-commiffioned officer to mark the fquare of the wheel. MARCH! At the word MARCH! repeated by leaders of fquadrons, the line wheels up into the ordered divifions, the leaders of squadrons HALT! DRESS! giving the word HALT! DRESS! which is done to the ftanding flank; and the other proper pivot leaders immediately place themfelves on that flank of their re spective fpective bodies.--In this fituation the whole remains, although the pivots do not cover (which must be the cafe if the divifions are unequal) nor is any one to move or attempt it, unless it is fo ordered by the commander from the front. Should it be required again to form in line on the fame ground, the divifions will go about, ranks by three's-Wheel back into the spaces they quitted, and again front.-Were they in fuch fituation to wheel forward, there would be false distances, and an ill formed line. If the column is to begin and continue in march, it is not effential to make the pivots cover previous to their moving, but they will in the course of their march gradually do fo, and they will alfo in the fame manner acquire their true wheeling up diftances from each other; for each starts with a diflance, not equal to its own front, but to that of the division which precedes it. S. 25. When the Regiment or Line wheels into open Column, either by reining back or by wheeling back. As it appears, that unless the divifions of a line are perfectly equal, their pivots will not cover when they wheel forward into open column, nor will their proper wheeling distances from each other be exact: and as thefe are circumstances fo effential for the march of a column, and for its fubfequent formation into line, that they must be attained before accuracy in either can take place:- -The formation of a column from line, by wheeling the divifions backward instead of forward, will at once give thefe advantages, and it is thought may, in almost all fituations of manoeuvre, be made ufe of when the object is the prolongation of a given direction, and the after formation into line. S THREE'S ABOUT!—MARCH! The line goes to the right ABOUT, Cranks by three's. HALT! DRESS! 1 In this manner the pivot files have (nearly) kept their ground and cover; the diftance from divifion to divifion is equal to the front of each; the leaders place themselves on the pivot flanks of divifions; any fmall irregularity of covering is eafily corrected, and the column is in a fituation either to form in line by wheeling up, or to move forward with exactness. When When the line breaks into open column by fmall divifions, and that the ground permits, this operation is performed by reining back on the pivot flank. S. 26. When the Regiment or Line after having wheeled into open Column, marches to the Flank or in any other given direction. THE COLUMN! MARCH! Fig. 20. If the prolongation of the line on which the column ftands is the object, fuch line must be marked by persons thrown forward in it, from diftance to diftance, who are fucceffively paffed by the pivot leaders of the divifions. If the head of the column is ordered to change its direction, the new line muft continue to be marked in the fame manner that the old one was; and each divifion, when it arrives at the place where the leading one changed into it, will fucceffively conform. If a straight line is not meant to be observed, the leader of the column will march by his eye; the other divifions will follow his exact path at their juft distances, and no advanced perfon need be sent out to the front. Fig. 20. 17. S. 27. When the Head of the open Column changes Direction on a moveable pivot (S. 8.) and enters on a line which it is to prolong. Before the head of a confiderable column in march enters a ftraight line which it is to prolong, and form upon, and whose direction has been previously ascertained by the commander; a point of entry must be marked by a placed perfon (S), (who is to remain there till he is relieved) and also another point in it (r), at leaft fixty or seventy paces from the first person.Three other perfons (m. n. o.) immediately and fucceffively prolong themselves on (r. S.) as the original bafe, and place themfelves 150 paces from (S.) and from each other.-Two of these perfons at leaft having taken their station by the time that the leading regiment enters the line, as foon as the head of it approaches the first of them, he gallops on, and anew alignes himself beyond the other two, and this operation each fucceffively repeats till the column balts. |