Rifle and infantry tactics . ibed distance, its cap-tain will command: 1. ^uick time. 2. MARCH. 686. This company will thus follow in column thatbehind which it finds itself, and at wheeling distance,its right guide marching exactly in the trace of thecaptain of that company. 687. As soon as the third company shall have facedto the left, the left guide of the second will placehimself on the left of the front rank of his company,and maintain between himself and the right of thefourth the space necessary for the return into line ofthe third. 688. The obstacle being passed, the colonel willcomman
Rifle and infantry tactics . ibed distance, its cap-tain will command: 1. ^uick time. 2. MARCH. 686. This company will thus follow in column thatbehind which it finds itself, and at wheeling distance,its right guide marching exactly in the trace of thecaptain of that company. 687. As soon as the third company shall have facedto the left, the left guide of the second will placehimself on the left of the front rank of his company,and maintain between himself and the right of thefourth the space necessary for the return into line ofthe third. 688. The obstacle being passed, the colonel willcommand: Third company, foricard into line. 689. At this command, the captain turning to hiscompany, will add: 1. By company, right half ichcel. 2. Double quick. 3. March. 690. At the command march, the company willtake the double quick step, and execute a half wheel;its captain will then command, ]. Forward. 3. Guide left. The second comn)and willbe given when the conipany shall have sufficientlywheeled. ^?v ••*?. SCHOOL OF THE BATTALKN—PART V. 155 691. At the command march, the company willdirect itself straight forward towards the line of bat-tle, and retake its position in it according to the prin-ciples prescribed for the formation forward into lineof battle. 692. It will be supposed that the obstacle corersseveral contiguous companies (the three companieson the right for example), the colonel will com-mand: 1. Three right covipanics, obstacle. 2. By the leftflank, to the rear, into column. 3. Double quick—March. 693. At the tirst command, the captains of thedesignated companies will each place himself beforethe centre of his company, and caution it as to themovement about to be executed. 694. At the command march, the designated com-panies will face to the left in marching, and imme-diately take the double quick step ; each captain willcause the head of his company to disengage itself tothe rear, and the left guide will place himself at thehead of the front ran
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