Abstract of infantry tactics : including exercises and manoeuvres of light-infantry and riflemen : for use of militia of . oser nearest to them, at the same limethat the battalion faces to the right-about, ;>nd will afterwards wheel, byfile, in order to follow the two next files, when the battalion is put inmarch, rear rank leading; and these two files will be followed by the com-pany, en potence, conforming to what is prescribed for passing a 1499. L8S8. By means of this movement, the company which, in advancing,was in file ID rear of (be rear rank, will, when the battalion
Abstract of infantry tactics : including exercises and manoeuvres of light-infantry and riflemen : for use of militia of . oser nearest to them, at the same limethat the battalion faces to the right-about, ;>nd will afterwards wheel, byfile, in order to follow the two next files, when the battalion is put inmarch, rear rank leading; and these two files will be followed by the com-pany, en potence, conforming to what is prescribed for passing a 1499. L8S8. By means of this movement, the company which, in advancing,was in file ID rear of (be rear rank, will, when the battalion is retiring, bearranged in (he same order in rear of the front, now become (he rear, rank 1889. If a battalion were advancing in line, and obliged to halt, face about, and retire, when Some of the companies were in open column in therear, these companies would halt, face about, and he put in march to the h the battalion preceding^ in this maimer, the rear rank of the bat-talion become the front rank ; and these comoanies would afterward* ob-;. t > line, as the ground may Plate XX. School of the Battalion. ^g. / 135 SCHOOL OF THE BATTALION—PART THIRD. To Change Direction Marching in Line. (Omitted. Jce Article Eleventh, Part V.) ARTICLE FOURTH. Oblique March in Line. (Omitted. See Article Eighth, Part V.)ARTICLE FIFTH. To Halt the Battalion Advancing in Line, and to Align it. 1366. To halt the battalion, the colonel will command, 1. Battalion. 2. Halt. 1367. At the second word, the battalion will halt; the color-rank andthe general guides will remain in front, unless the colonel give the word,Colors and guides—posts ; and this order will be given when the battal-ion is not to resume the march to the front, nor to undergo a general align-ment. 1363. When the colonel does not wish to give the battalion a generalalignment, he will, if he think proper, cause the alignment to be rectified ;he will, in this case, command, Captains, rectify the alignment; the
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