13 14 16 5. Passaging, and reining back 6. Dreling 7. Marching in front 8. Wheeling 9. Filing 10. Inclining II. Pace 12. Of the charge or attack 13. Commands 14. Movements 15. Taking lines of march and formation 19 25 27 29 31 35 40 43 16. Breaking 48.) REGULATE GENERAL CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CHANGES OF POSITION, AND FORMATIONS 1 24. } The regiment wheels forward into open column 86 25. 2 wheels backwardinto open column87 26. March to the flank in open column --- 89 27 on a moveable pivot 90 28. Change of direction on a fixed pivot 91 29. on the reverse 92 30. on the pivot flank 93 31. Wheel in column of divisions of unequal frength 94 32. Prolonging the line in open column 95 33. Halt of the open column 96 34. March of rear divisions of a column into a new direction 36. Open 96 98 1 CONTENTS. ix 38. Set. Page 36, behind a placed flank division 100 Open column before a placed flank divi37 fion formed 103 before and behind a central division 104 39. Open column of the line formed on a flank or central division 106 40. changes position to a flank 107 41: enters a line at its head point III Open column 42. enters a line at its rear point 112 43. enters a line at a central point 114 44. Open column enters a line by diagonal march of its divisions 115 COUNTER MARCH. 45. Of each division 118 46. Of the divisions of the column from rear to front successively 119 47. Of the column, from rear to front, by divisions paffing through each other. 123 CHANGES OF POSITION. Sect. Page [changes position on a fixed division I 24 changes position on a distant 49. point 127 Open Column {forms line, by divisions paling 50. beyond each other 127 forms lipe, facing to its rear 129 51. forms line, by wheels to its 129 53. Countermarch of Squadron, regiment, or linc 131 54. Diminishing or encreasing the front of the column of march 134 52. CLOSE COLUMN. 149 March of column {to a flank 55. Close column for med from line 143 56. The regiment forms close columuz 144 57.7 58.5 I to the front 151 59. Change of direction in column 151 60. Countermarch of the divisions of the column 153 61. Deployment of column of half Squadrons into line 156 62. Column of half squadrons forins column of Squadrons 162 63. Deployment of column of Squadrons into line 164 64. Oblique deployment of close column into line 166 65. Line formed from column, in the prolongation of its flank 167 66. Column at half distance forms liize to its front 168 ECHELLON ECHELLON. Sect. Page 67. Wheel of divisions of the regiment into oblique ecbellon 171 68. March in oblique echellon 173 69. Wheel back into parallel line 175 70. March up into oblique line 71. Change of position forward or backward, on a flank or central division 177 72. Change of position on a distant point 185 73. March of direct echellon to the front, and formation in line 186 176 OF THE LINE. 74. General changes of position of a line 191 196 Open COLUMN. 76. Open column, enters, marches, and forms on an alignement 198 77. Entry of the rear regiments of a column into an alignement, on which the front ones have balted 78. Con a fixed flank division Changes of 79. on a fixed central division pofition 8o. on a moving central division 203 81. Change 200 202 202 |