. Rifle and light infantry tactics [electronic resource]: for the exercise and manoeuvres of troops when acting as light infantry or riflemen . ace in his rank, and the piece be made towaver; if too low, the files would be too muchclosed, the soldier would not have the necessaryspace to handle his piece with facility, the rightarm would become too much fatigued, and woulddraw down the shoulder. 126. The instructor, before passing to the secondlesson, will cause to be repeated the movementsof eyes right, left, and front, and the facings. Lesson of Arms. 127 The manual of arms will be
. Rifle and light infantry tactics [electronic resource]: for the exercise and manoeuvres of troops when acting as light infantry or riflemen . ace in his rank, and the piece be made towaver; if too low, the files would be too muchclosed, the soldier would not have the necessaryspace to handle his piece with facility, the rightarm would become too much fatigued, and woulddraw down the shoulder. 126. The instructor, before passing to the secondlesson, will cause to be repeated the movementsof eyes right, left, and front, and the facings. Lesson of Arms. 127 The manual of arms will be taught tofour men, placed, at first, in one rank, elbow toelbow, and afterwards in two ranks. 128. Each command will be executed in onetime, (or pause,) but this time will be divided intomotions, the better to make known the mechanism. 129. The rate (or swiftness) of each motion, inthe manual of arms, with the exceptions hereinindicated, is fixed at the ninetieth part of a min-ute ; but, in order not to fatigue the attention,the instructor will, at first, look more particularlyto the execution of the motions, without requiring ?3f. Fs,. SCHOOL OF THK SOLDIER—PART II. 31 a nice observance of the cadence, to which he willbring the recruits progressively, and after theyshall have become a little familiarized with thehandling of the piece. 130. As the motions relative to the cartridge,to the rammer, and to the fixing and unfixing ofthe bayonet, cannot be executed at the rate pre-scribed, nor even with a uniform swiftness, theywill not be subjected to that cadence. The in-structor will, however, labor to cause these mo-tions to be executed with promptness, and, aboveall, with regularity. 131. The last syllable of the command will de-cide the brisk execution of the first motion of eachtime, (or pause.) The commands two, three, andfour, will decide the brisk execution of the othermotions. As soon as the recruits shall well com-prehend the positions of the several motions ofa time, t
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