Rifle and infantry tactics . r distances, there will be open-ings between the files at the instauW)f facing to thefront. 38G. If captains halt their companies too early,they will want space, and the files which have notcleaied the flanks of the standing ce-mpanies \\ill notbe abbvto dress into line without pushing their rankslaterally. 387. If, on the contrary, the companies be hrjltedtoo late, it will be neces^jary for them to incline tothe right or left in dressing; and in deployments,either of these faults would lend to error in the fol-lowing C(uiipauies. 388. As often as a guide shall hav
Rifle and infantry tactics . r distances, there will be open-ings between the files at the instauW)f facing to thefront. 38G. If captains halt their companies too early,they will want space, and the files which have notcleaied the flanks of the standing ce-mpanies \\ill notbe abbvto dress into line without pushing their rankslaterally. 387. If, on the contrary, the companies be hrjltedtoo late, it will be neces^jary for them to incline tothe right or left in dressing; and in deployments,either of these faults would lend to error in the fol-lowing C(uiipauies. 388. As often as a guide shall have to step out toplace himself before his subdivision in ordei- to markthe direction, he v>ill be particularly carefnl to placehimself so as to be opposite to one of the rhree outerfiles of the subdivisicm when they shall be aligned: ifho t:ike too much distance, and neither of thoi^e filesfinds itself against him, the chiniur on whicli r diie<! SCHOOL OF THE J^ATTALI N—PART IV. 87 PART FOURTH. Different modes of passing from the order in column tothe order in battle. FiRST. Manner of determining the line of battle. 38;). The lino of battle may bo marked or deter-mined in three ditFereilt manners : 1st, by placingtwo markers ei<j;hty or a hundred paces uiaU:, on thedirection it is wished to give to the line ; 2d, bypla-cing a marker at the point at which it may be in-tended to rest a flunk, and then chousing a secoL-dpoint towards, or beyond the opposite flunk, andthere posting a Sr_cond marker distant from eachother a little less thnn the leading subdivision ; M,by choosing at first the points of dfrection for theflanks, and then determining, by intermediate points,the stra ght line between those seU-cted points, bothof which sometimes be beyond reach. Article Second. Difif rrat i:n);les of passing from cpliimn at full dis-tance into line of battle. 1. To the left (or right) ^ 2. On the right (or left) i
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