[BY
AUTHORITY.]
INFANTRY TACTICS,
FOR THE
INSTRUCTION, EXERCISE, AND MANŒUVRES
OF
THE SOLDIER, A COMPANY, LINE OF SKIRMISHERS,
BATTALION, BRIGADE,
OR
CORPS D'ARMEE.
Vol. II.
SCHOOL OF THE BATTALION
Table of
Contents
TITLE
FOURTH.
SCHOOL
OF THE BATTALION.
Formation
of the Battalion.
ARTICLE
FIRST.
To
open and to close ranks.
ARTICLE
SECOND.
Manual
of arms.
ARTICLE
THIRD.
Loading
at will, and the Firings.
The
fire by company.
The
fire by wing.
The
fire by battalion.
The
fire by file.
The
fire by rank.
To
fire by the rear rank.
PART
SECOND.
Different
modes of passing from the order in battle to the order in
column.
ARTICLE
FIRST.
To
break to the right or the left into column.
ARTICLE
SECOND.
To
break to the rear, by the right or left, into column, and to
advance or retire by the right or left of cornpanies.
ARTICLE
THIRD.
To
ploy the battalion into Close column.
PART
THIRD.
ARTICLE
FIRST.
To
march in column at full distance.
The
column arriving in front of the line of battle, to prolong it on
this line.
The
column arriving behind the line of battle, to prolong it on this
line.
The
column arriving on the right or the left of the line of battle,
to prolong it on this line.
Manner
of prolonging a line of battle by marker.
Remarks
on the march in column.
ARTICLE
SECOND.
Column
in route.
General
remarks on the column in route.
ARTICLE
THIRD.
To
change direction in column at full distance.
Remarks.
ARTICLE
FOURTH.
To
halt the column.
Remarks.
ARTICLE
FIFTH.
To
close the column to half distance, or in mass.
ARTICLE
SIXTH.
To
march in column at half distance, or closed in mass.
ARTICLE
SEVENTH.
To
change direction in column at half distance.
ARTICLE
EIGHTH.
To
change direction in column closed in mass.
1st.
To change direction in marching.
2d.
To change direction from a halt.
ARTICLE
NINTH.
Being
in column at half distance, or closed in mass, to take
distances.
1st.
To take distances by the head of the column.
2d.
To take distances on the rear of the column.
3d.
To take distances on the head of the column.
ARTICLE
TENTH.
Countermarch
of a column at full or half distance
ARTICLE
ELEVENTH.
Being
in column by company, closed in mass, to form divisions.
Being
in column at full or half distance, to form divisions.
PART
FOURTH.
Different
modes of passing from the order in column to the order in
battle.
ARTICLE
FIRST.
Manner
of determining the line of battle.
ARTICLE
SECOND.
Different
modes of passing from column at full distance into line of
battle.
1st.
Column at full distance, right in front, to the left into line
of battle.
2d.
Column at full distance, on the right (or on the left) into line
of battle.
Remarks
on the formation on the right, or left, into line of battle.
3d.
Column, at full distance, forward into line of battle.
4th.
Column at full distance, faced to the rear, into line of battle.
ARTICLE
THIRD.
Formation
in line of battle by two movements.
ARTICLE
FOURTH.
Different
modes of passing from column at half distance, into line of
battle.
1st.
Column at half distance, to the left (or right) into line of
battle.
2d.
Column at half distance, on the right (or left), into line of
battle.
3rd.
Column at half distance, faced to the rear, into line of battle.
ARTICLE
FIFTH.
Deployment
of columns closed in mass.
PART
FIFTH.
ARTICLE
FIRST.
To
advance in line of battle.
ARTICLE
SECOND.
Oblique
march in line of battle.
ARTICLE
THIRD.
To
halt the battalion, marching in line of battle, and to align it.
ARTICLE
FOURTH.
Change
of direction in marching in line of battle.
ARTICLE
FIFTH.
To
march in retreat, in line of battle.
ARTICLE
SIXTH.
To
halt the battalion marching in retreat, and to face it to the
front.
ARTICLE
SEVENTH.
Change
of direction, in marching in retreat.
ARTICLE
EIGHTH.
Passage
of obstacles, advancing and retreating.
ARTICLE
NINTH.
To
pass a defile, in retreat, by the right or left flank.
ARTICLE
TENTH.
To
march by the flank.
ARTICLE
ELEVENTH.
To
form the battalion on the right or left, by file, into line of
battle.
ARTICLE
TWELFTH.
Changes
of front. Change of front perpendicularly forward.
Remarks
on changes of front.
ARTICLE
THIRTEENTH.
To
ploy the battalion into column doubled on the centre.
ARTICLE
FOURTEENTH.
Dispositions
against Cavalry.
To
form square from line of battle.
Observations
relative to the formation of squares in two ranks.
Squares
in four ranks.
Oblique
squares.
Column
against Cavalry.
ARTICLE
FIFTEENTH.
The
Rally.
ARTICLE
SIXTEENTH.
Rules
for manoeuvring by the rear rank.
Street
Firing
