Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics; For the Exercise and Manoeuvres of Troops When Acting as Light Infantry or Riflemen. Prepared Under the Direction of the War Department, Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...will remind them that ey will have to face to the left. 516. At the second command, the three last risions will face to the left; the chief of each rision will place himself by the side of its left ide, and the junior captain by the side of the-ering sergeant of the left company, who will ve stepped into the front rank. 517. At the same command, the lieutenant, onel will place a third marker on the alignment the two first, opposite to one of the three left es of the right company, first division, and then ace himself on the line of battle a few po"" beyond the point at which the left of the second division will rest. 518. The colonel will then command: 3. March (or double quick--Makch). 519. At this command, the chief of the first division will go to its right, and command: Sight--Dress. 520. At this, the division will dress up against the markers; the chief of the division, and its junior captain, will each align the company on his left, and then command: Front. 521. The three divisions, faced to the left, will put themselves in march; the left guide of the second will direct himself parallelly to the line of battle; the left guides of the third and fourth divisions will march abreast with the guide of the second; the guides of the third and fourth, each preserving the proscribed distance between himself and the guide of the division which preceded his own in the column. 522. The chief of the second division will not follow its movement; he will see it file by him, d when its right guide shall be abreast with m, he will command: 1. Second division. 2. Halt. 3. Front. 523. The first command will be given when the division shall yet have seven or eight paces to march; the second, when the right guide shall he abreast with the chief of the division, ...