Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... to stand fast; the chiefs of the three other divisions will remind them that they will have to face to the left. 516. At the second command, the three last divisions will face to the left; the chief of each division will place himself by the side of its left guide, and the junior captain by the side of the covering sergeant of the left company, who will have stepped into the front rank. 517. At the same command, the lieutenant colonel will place a third marker on the alignment of the two first, opposite to one of the three left files of the right company, first division, and then place himself on the line of battle a few paces beyond the point at which the left of the Jecond division will rest. 518. The colonel will then command: 3. March (or double quick--March). 519. At this command, the chief of the first division will go to its right, and command: Right--Dress. 520. At this, the division will dress up against the markers; the chief of the division, and its junior captain, will each align the company on his left, and then command: Front. 521. The three divisions, faced to the left, will put themselves in march; the left guide of the second will direct himself parallelly to the line of battle; the left guides of the third and fourth divisions will march abreast with the guide of the second; the guides of the third and fourth, each preserving tire prescribed distance between himself and the guide of the division which preceded his own in "the column. 522. The chief of the second division will not follow its movement; he will see it file by him, and when its right guide shall be abreast with him, he will command: 1. Second division. 2. Halt. 3. Front. 523. The first command will be given when the division shall yet have seven or eight...