Rifle and light infantry tactics : for the exercise and manoeuvres of troops when acting as light infantry or riflemen . Ti| 1 \ \ ^^ ^1. SCHOOL OF THE BATTALION—PART V. 169 Change of front pcrpendimlarly to the rear. 760. The colonel, wishing to change front tothe rear on the right company, will impart hispurpose to the captain of this company. The lat-ter will immediately face his company about,wheel it to the left on the fixed pivot, and halt itwhen it shall be in the direction indicated to himby the colonel: the captain will then face hiscompany to the front, and align it by the rightagain
Rifle and light infantry tactics : for the exercise and manoeuvres of troops when acting as light infantry or riflemen . Ti| 1 \ \ ^^ ^1. SCHOOL OF THE BATTALION—PART V. 169 Change of front pcrpendimlarly to the rear. 760. The colonel, wishing to change front tothe rear on the right company, will impart hispurpose to the captain of this company. The lat-ter will immediately face his company about,wheel it to the left on the fixed pivot, and halt itwhen it shall be in the direction indicated to himby the colonel: the captain will then face hiscompany to the front, and align it by the rightagainst the two markers, whom the colonel willcause to be established before the right and leftfiles. 761.^ These dispositions being made, the col-onel will command : 1. Change front to the rear, on ^first Battalion, about—Face. 3. Bt/ company,left half wheel. 4. March, (or double quick—March.) ^ 762. At the second command, all the comap-nies, except the right, will face about. 763. At the third, the captains, whose com-panies have faced about, will each place himselfbehind the centre of his company, two pacesfrom the f
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