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485.
If a column by company, right in front, and at a halt, find itself
in part on the line of battle, and the colonel should think proper
to form line of battle before all the companies enter the new
direction, the formation will be executed in the following manner:
486.
It will be supposed that the column has arrived behind the line of
battle, and that five companies have entered the new direction. The
colonel having assured the guides of the first five companies on the
direction, will command:
1.
Left into line, wheel. 2. Three rear companies, forward into line.
487.
At the second command, the chief of each of the rear companies will
command: By company, left calf wheel; and the colonel will add:
3.
MARCH (or double quick-MARCH).
488.
At this command, briskly repeated, the first five companies will
form themselves to the left, into line of battle, and the three last
forward, into line of battle, by the means prescribed for these
respective formations; each captain of the three rear companies
will, when his company shall have sufficiently wheeled, command:
1.
Forward. 2. MARCH. 3. Guide right.
489.
If the column be in march, the colonel will command:
1.
To the left, and forward into line. 2. MARCH (or double
quick-MARCH).
490.
At the first command, the captains of those companies which have not
entered on the new direction will command:
By
company, left half wheel.
At
the command march, briskly repeated, the first five companies will
form left into line, and the last three forward into line, as
prescribed for these respective formations. Those captains who form
their companies forward into line will conform to what is prescribed
No. 488.
491.
If the colonel should wish, in forming the battalion into line, to
march it immediately forward, he will command:
1.
By company to the left, and forward into line. 2. MARCH.
492.
At the first command, each captain, whose company is not yet in the
new direction, will command:
1.
By company, left half wheel; 2. Double quick.
At
the command march, briskly repeated by the captains, the companies
not in the new direction will execute what is prescribed above for
forming forward into line while marching; each of the other
companies will wheel to the left on a fixed pivot, and when the
right of these companies shall arrive on the line, the colonel will
command:
3.
Forward. 4. MARCH. 5. Guide centre.
493.
The fifth command will be given when the color-bearer arrives on the
line, if not already there.
494.
If the battalion be marching in double quick time, the colonel will
cause quick time to be taken before commencing the movement.
495.
If, instead of arriving behind, the column should arrive before the
line of battle, the colonel will command:
1.
Left into line, wheel. 2. The rear companies into line, faced to the
rear.
496.
At the second command, the captain of each of the three rear
companies will command:
1.
Such company. 2. Right-FACE.
The
colonel will then add:
3.
MARCH (or double quick-MARCH).
497.
At this command, briskly repeated, the first five companies will
form themselves to the left, into line of battle, and the three last
faced to the rear, into line of battle, by the means prescribed for
these respective formations.
498.
If the column be in march, the colonel will command: 1. To the left,
and into line faced to the rear. 2. MARCH (or double quick-MARCH).
499.
The movement will be executed as prescribed Nos. 391, 480, and
following.
500.
These several movements in a column, left in front, will be executed
according to the same principles, and by inverse means.
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To the left (or right)
2.
On the right (or left)
3.
Forward, by deployment,
4.
Faced to the rear,
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501.
A column at half distance having to form itself to the left (or
right) into line of battle, the colonel will cause it to take
distances by one of the
means
prescribed Article IX., Part Third, of this school; which being
executed, he will form the column into line of battle, as has been
indicated No. 390 and following.
502.
If a column by company, at half distance, be in march, and it be
necessary to form rapidly into line of battle, the colonel will
command:
1.
By the rear of column left (or right) into line, wheel. 2. MARCH (or
double quick-MARCH).
503.
At the first command, the right general guide will move rapidly to
the front, and place himself a little beyond the point where the
head of the column will rest, and on the prolongation of the guides.
The captain of the eighth company will command: Left into line,
wheel; the other captains will caution their companies to continue
to march to the front.
504.
At the command march, briskly repeated by the captain of the eighth
company, the guide of this company will halt short, and the company
will wheel to the left, conforming to the principles prescribed for
wheeling from a halt; when its right shall arrive near the line, the
captain will halt the company, and align it by the left. The other
captains will place themselves briskly on the flank of the column;
when the captain of the seventh sees there is sufficient distance
between his company and the eighth to form the latter into line, he
will command: Left into line, wheel-MARCH; the left guide will halt
short, and, facing to the rear, will place himself on the line; the
company will wheel to the left, the man on the left of the front
rank will face to the left, and place his breast against the left
arm of the guide; the captain will halt the company when its right
shall arrive near the line, and will align it by the left. The other
companies will conform successively to what has just been prescribed
for the seventh.
505.
Each captain will direct the alignment of his
company on the
left man in the front rank of the company next on his right.
506.
The lieutenant colonel will be watchful that the leading guide
marches accurately on the prolongation of the line of battle, and
directs himself on the right general guide. The major, placed in
rear of the left guide of the eighth company, will, as soon as the
guide of the seventh company is established on the direction, hasten
in rear of the guides of the other companies, so as to assure each
of them in succession on the line.
507.
A column at half distance will form itself on the right (or left)
into line of battle, as prescribed for a column at full distance.
3d. Coltimt at half distance, forward, into line of battle.
508.
If it be wished to form a column at half distance, forward into line
of battle, the colonel will first cause it to close in mass and then
deploy it on the leading company.
509.
A column at half distance will be formed into line of battle, faced
to the rear, as prescribed for a column at full distance.
510.
A column in mass may be formed into line of battle:
1.
Faced to the front, by the deployment.
2.
Faced to the rear, by the countermarch and the deployment.
3.
Faced to the right and faced to the left, by a change of
direction by the flank, and the deployment.
511.
When a column in mass, by division, arrives behind the line on which
it is intended to deploy it, the colonel will indicate, in advance,
to the lieutenant colonel, the direction of the line of battle, as
well as the point on which he may wish to direct the column. The
lieutenant colonel will immediately detach himself with two markers,
and establish them on that line, the first at the point indicated,
the second a little less than the front of a division from the
first.
512.
Deployments will always be made upon lines parallel and lines
perpendicular to the line of battle; consequently, if the head of
the column be near the line of battle, the colonel will commence by
establishing the direction of the column perpendicularly to that
line, if it be not already so, by one of the means indicated No. 244
and following, or No. 307 and following. If the column be in march,
he will so direct it that it may arrive exactly behind the markers,
perpendicularly to the line of battle, and halt it at three paces
from that line.
513.
The column, right in front, being halted, it is supposed that the
colonel wishes to deploy it on the first division; he will order the
left general guide to go to a point on the line of battle a little
beyond that at which the left of the battalion will rest when
deployed, and place himself correctly on the prolongation of the
markers established before the first division.
514.
These dispositions being made, the colonel will command:
1.
On the first division, deploy column. 2. Battalion, left-FACE.
515.
At the first command, the chief of the first division will caution
it to stand fast; the chiefs of the three other divisions will
remind them that they will have to face to the left.
516.
At the second command, the three last divisions will face to the
left; the chief of each division will place himself by the side of
its left guide, and the junior captain by the side of the covering
sergeant of the left company, who will have stepped into the front
rank.
517.
At the same command, the lieutenant colonel will place a third
marker on the alignment of the two first, opposite to one of the
three left files of the right company, first division, and then
place himself on the line of battle a few paces beyond the point at
which the left of the second division will rest.
518.
The colonel will then command:
3.
MARCH (or double quick —MARCH).
519.
At this command, the chief of the first division will go to its
right, and command: Right-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 prescribed
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; lie
will see it file by him, and when its right guide shall be abreast
with him, 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 be abreast with the chief of the division, and the third
immediately after the second.
524.
At the second command, the division will halt; at the third, it will
face to the front, and if there be openings between the files, the
chief of the division will cause them to b. promptly closed to the
right; the left guides of both companies will step upon the line of
battle, face to the right, and place themselves on the direction of
the markers established before the first division, each guide
opposite to one of the three left files of his company.
525.
The division having faced to the front, its chief will place himself
accurately on the line of battle, on the left of the first division;
and when he shall see the guides assured on the direction, he will
command, Right —DRESS. At this, the division will be aligned by
the right in the manner indicated for the first.
526.
The third and fourth divisions will continue to march; at the
command halt, given to the second, the chief of the third will halt
in his own person, place himself exactly opposite to the guide of
the second, after this division shall have faced to the front and
closed its files; he will see his division file past, and when his
right guide shall be abreast with him, he will command:
1.
Third division. 2. HALT. 3. FRONT.
527.
As soon as the division faces to the front, its chief will-place
himself two paces before its centre, and command:
1.
Third division, forward. 2. Guide right. 3. MARCH.
528.
At the third command, the division will march towards the line of
battle; the right guide will so direct himself as to arrive by the
side of the man on the left of the second division, and when the
division is at three paces from the line of battle, its chief will
halt it and align it by the right.
529
The chief of the fourth division will conform himself (and the chief
of the fifth, if there be a fifth) to what has just been prescribed
for the third.
530.
The deployment ended, the colonel will command: Guides-POSTS.
531.
At this command, the guides will resume their places in line of
battle, and the markers will retire.
532.
If the column be in march, and the colonel shall wish to deploy it
on the first division without halting the column, he will make the
dispositions indicated Nos. 512 and 513, and when the first division
shall have arrived at three paces from the line, he will command:
1.
On the first division, deploy column. 2. Battalion by the left
flank. 3. MARCH (or double quick-MARCH
533.
At the first command, the chief of the first division will caution
it to halt, and will command, First division; the other chiefs will
caution their divisions to face by the left flank.
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534.
At the command march, briskly repeated by the chiefs of the rear
divisions, the chief of the first division will command, HALT, and
will align his division by the right against the markers; the other
divisions will face to the left, their chiefs hastening to the left
of their divisions. The second division will conform its movements
to what is prescribed Nos. 522 and following. The third and fourth
divisions will execute what is prescribed Nos. 526 and following;
but the chief of each division will halt in his own person at the
command march given by the chief of the division which precedes him,
and when the right of his division arrives abreast of him, he will
command:
Such division, by the right flank —MARCH
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535.
The lieutenant colonel will assure the position of the guides,
conforming to what is prescribed No. 431. The major will follow the
movement abreast with the fourth division.
536.
If the colonel shall wish to deploy the column without halting it,
and to continue the march, the markers will not be posted; the
movement will be executed by the same commands and the same means as
the foregoing, but with the following modifications:
537.
At the first command, the chief of the first division will command,
1. Guide right. 2. Quick time. At the command, Double quick-MARCH,
given by the colonel, the first division will march in quick time
and will take the touch.of elbows to the right; the captains will
place themselves on the right of their respective companies; the
captain on the right of the battalion will take points on the ground
to assure the direction of the march. The chief of the second
division will allow his division to file past him, and when he sees
its right abreast of him, he will command: 1. Second division by the
right flank. 2. MARCH. 3. Guide right; and when this division shall
arrive an the alignment of the first, he will cause it to march in
quick time. The third and fourth divisions will deploy according to
the same principles as the second.
538.
The colonel, lieutenant colonel, major,- and color-bearer will
conform themselves to what is prescribed No. 46.
539.
The colonel will see, pending the movement that the principles just
prescribed are duly observed, and particularly that the divisions,
in deploying, be not halted too soon nor too late. He will correct
promptly and quickly the faults that may be committed, and prevent
their propagation. This rule i general for all deployments.
540.
The column being at a halt, if, instead of deploying it on the
first, the colonel shall wish to deploy it on the rearmost division,
he will cause the dispositions to be made indicated No. 511 and
following; but it will be the' right general guide whom he will send
to place himself beyond the point at which the right of the
battalion will rest when deployed.
541.
The colonel will then command: 1. On the fourth (or such) division,
deploy column. 2. Battalion, right-FACE.
542.
At the first command, the chief of the fourth division will caution
it to stand fast; the chiefs of the other divisions will caution
them that they will have to face to the right.
543.
At the second command, the first three divisions will face to the
right; and the chief of each will place himself by the side of its
right guide.
544.
At the same command, the lieutenant colonel will place a third
marker between the first two, so that this marker may be opposite to
one of the three right files of the left company of the division;
the lieutenant colonel will then place himself on the line of battle
a few paces beyond the point at which the right of the third
division will rest when deployed.
545.
The colonel will then command: 3. MARCH (or double quick-MARCH).
546.
At this command, the three right divisions will put themselves in
march, the guide of the first so directing himself as to pass three
paces within the line marked by the right general guide. The chief
of the third division will not follow its movement. he will see it
file past, halt it when its left guide shall be abreast with him,
and cause it to face to the front; and, if there be openings between
the files, he will cause them to be promptly closed to the left.
547.
The chief of the fourth division, when he sees it nearly unmasked by
the three others, will command: 1. Fourth division, forward. 2.
Guide left. 3. MARCH.
548.
At the command march, which will be given the instant the fourth is
unmasked, this division will approach the line of battle, and when
at three paces from the markers on that line, its chief will halt
it, and command: Left-DRESS.
549.
At this command, the division will dress forward against the
markers; the chief of the division and the junior captain will each
align the company on his right, and then command: FRONT.
550.
The instant that the third division is unmasked, its chief will
cause it to approach the line of battle, and halt it in the manner
just prescribed for the fourth.
551.
The moment the division halts, its right guide and the covering
sergeant of its left company will step on the line of battle,
placing themselves on the prolongation of the markers established in
front of the fourth division; as soon as they shall be assured in
their positions, the division will be, aligned as has just been
prescribed for the fourth.
552.
The second and first divisions which will have continued to march,
will, in succession, be halted and aligned by the left, in the same
manner as the third; the chiefs of these divisions will conform
themselves to what is prescribed No. 526. The second being near the
line of battle, the command will not be given for it to move on this
line, but it will be dressed up to it.
553.
The deployment ended, the colonel will command: Guides-POSTS.
554.
At this command, the chiefs of division and the guides will resume
their places in line of battle, and the markers will retire.
555.
The lieutenant colonel will assure the positions of the guides by
the means indicated No. 431, and the major will follow the movement
abreast with the fourth division.
556.
If the column be in march, and the colonel shall wish to deploy it
on the fourth division, he will make the dispositions indicated No.
511 and following; and when the head of the column shall arrive
within three paces of the line, he will command: I On the fourth
division, deploy column. 2. Battalion, by the right flank. 3. MARCH
(or double quick MARCH).
557.
At the first command, the chief of the fourth division will caution
it to halt, and will command, Fourth division; the chiefs of the
other divisions will caution their divisions to face to the right.
558.
At the command march, briskly repeated by the chiefs of the first
three divisions, the chief of the fourth will command: HALT. The
first three divisions will face to the right, and be directed
parallelly to the line of battle. The chief of each of these
divisions will place himself by the side of its right guide. The
chief of the third division will see his division file past aim, and
when his left guide is abreast of him, he will halt it, and face it
to the front. The chief of the fourth division, when he shall see it
nearly unmasked, will command:
1.
Fourth
division, forward; 2. Guide left; 3. MARCH (or double quick-MARCH).
This
division will move towards the line of battle, and when at three
paces from this line, it will be halted by its chief, and aligned by
the left.
559.
The chief of the third division will move his division forward,
conforming to what has just been prescribed for the fourth.
560.
The chiefs of the second and first divisions, after halting their
divisions, will conform to what is prescribed No. 552.
561.
If the colonel should wish to deploy on the fourth division without
halting the column, and to continue to march forward, he will not
have markers posted, and the movement will be executed by the same
commands and the same means, with the following modifications: the
fourth division, when unmasked, will be moved forward in quick time,
and will continue to march, instead of being halted, and will take
the touch of elbows to the left. The third division, on being
unmasked, will be moved to the front in double quick time, but when
it arrives on the alignment of the fourth it will take the quick
step, and dress to the left until the command Guide centre, is given
by the colonel. The chiefs of the second and first divisions will
conform to what has been prescribed for the third. When the first
division shall arrive on the line, the colonel may cause the
battalion to take the double quick step.
562.
The colonel and lieutenant colonel will conform to what has been
prescribed Nos. 458 and 459.
563.
To deploy the column on an interior division, the colonel will cause
the line to be traced by the means above indicated, and the general
guides will trove briskly on the line, as prescribed Nos. 513 and
540. This being executed, the colonel will command:
1
On such division, deploy column. 2. Battalion out wards - FACE. 3.
MARCH (or double quick MARCH).
564.
Whether the column be with the right or left in front, the divisions
which, in the order in battle, belong to the right of the directing
one, will face to the right; the others, excepting the directing
division, will face to the left; the divisions in front of the
latter winl deploy by the means indicated No. 542 and following;
those in its rear will deploy as is prescribed No. 513 and
following.
565.
The directing division, the instant it finds itself unmasked, will
approach the line of battle, taking the guide left or right,
according as the right or left of the column may be in front. The
chief of this division will align it by the directing flank, and
then step back into the rear, in order momentarily to give place to
the chief of the next for aligning the next division.
566.
The lieutenant colonel will assure the positions of the guides of
divisions, which, in the line of battle, take the right of the
directing division, and the major will assure the positions of the
other guides.
567.
If the column be in march, the colonel will command:
1.
On such division, deploy column. 2. Battalion, by the right and left
flanks. 3. MARCH (or double quick-MARCH).
568.
The divisions which are in front of the directing one will deploy by
the means indicated Nos. 557 and following; those in rear, as
prescribed No. 533 and following.
569.
The directing division, when unmasked, will conform to what is
prescribed for the fourth division, No. 558.
570.
The colonel, lieutenant colonel and major will conform to what has
been prescribed Nos. 458 and 459.
571.
In a column, left in front, deployments will be executed according
to the same principles, and by inverse means. Remarks on the
deployment of columns, closed ill mass.
572.
All the divisions ought to deploy rectangularly, to march off
abreast, and to preserve their distances towards the line of battle.
573.
Each division, the instant that it is unmasked, ought to be marched
towards the line of battle, and to be aligned upon it by the flank
next to the directing division; the latter, whether the right or
left be in front, will always be aligned By the flank next to the
point of appui, when the deployment is made on the first or last
division; but if the column be deployed on an interior division,
this division will be aligned by the flank which was that of
direction.
574.
The chiefs of division will see that, in deploying, the principles
prescribed for marching by the flank are well observed, and if
openings between the files occur, which ought not to happen except o
broken or difficult grounds, the openings ought to be promptly
closed towards the directing flank as soon as the divisions face to
the front.
575.
If a chief of division give the command halt, or the command by the
right or left flank, too soon or too late, his division will be
obliged to oblique to the right or left in approaching the line of
battle, and his fault may lead the following subdivision into error.
576.
In these divisions which deploy by the left rank, it is always the
left guide of each company who ought to place himself on the line of
battle. To mark the direction; in divisions which deploy by the
right flank, it is the right guide.
577.
A column by company, closed in mass, may be formed to the left or to
the right into line, in the same manner as the column at half
distance, and by the means indicated No. 502 and following.
578.
A column by company, closed in mass, may be formed on the right or
on the left into line of battle, as a column at half distance; but
in order to execute this movement, without arresting the march of
the column, it is necessary that the guides avoid, with the greatest
care, shortening the step in turning, and that the men near them,
respectively, con. form themselves rapidly to the movements of their
guides. Remarks on inversions.
579.
Inversions giving frequently the means of forming line of battle, in
the promptest manner, are of great utility in the movements of an
army.
580.
The application that may be made of inversions in the formations to
the right and to the left in line of battle, has been indicated No.
407 and following. They may also be advantageously employed in the
successive formations, except in that of faced to the rear, into
line of battle.
581.
Formations, by inversion, will be executed according to the same
principles as formations in the direct order; but the colonel's
first command will always begin by inversion.
582.
The battalion being in line of battle by inversion, when the colonel
shall wish, by forming it into column, to bring it back to the
direct order, he will cause it either to break or to ploy by
company, or by division, accordingly as the column may have been by
company or by division before it had been formed into line of battle
by inversion.
583.
When a battalion in line of battle, formed by
inversion, has
to be ployed into column, the movement will be executed according to
the same principles as if the line were in the direct order, but
observing what follows.
584.
If it be intended that the column shall be by division, with the
first in front, or by company, with the first company in front, the
colonel will announce in the second command-left in front, because
the battalion being in line of battle by inversion, that subdivision
is on the left.
585.
Each chief whose subdivision takes position in the column in front
of the directing one, will conduct his subdivision till it halts;
and each chief whose subdivision takes position in rear of the
directing one, will halt in his own person when up with the
preceding right guide, and see his subdivision file past; and each
chief will align his subdivision by the right. When the column is to
be put in march, the second command will be, guide left, because the
proper fight is in front.
586.
For the same reason, if it be intended that the last subdivision
shall be in front, right in front, will be announced in the second
command; the subdivisions will be aligned by the left, and to put
the column in march, the second command will be, guide right,
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