Halt, Front. Drefs. March. Halt, Drefs. CLOSE DIS TANCE TO THE FRONT. vifion, gives the words Halt, Front-Drefs -March; and Halt, Drefs, when he arrives at the one he is to join, his ferjeant being on the flank of his divifion in the fame manner as in deploying into line. The colours remain with their proper divilion in the column, and that divifion must of course outflank on the hand not the pivot one. The officers and ferjeants now shift their places, and take poft (whether the column has its right or left in front) fo that the right company of each divifion has its officer and its ferjeant on its right, or in the center of the divifion.-A CAUTION is given to clofe diftance to the front. The divifions move at the word MARCH, by the pivot flanks, and each Halt, Drefs. pivot officer gives his words Halt, Dress, when his divifion has clofed.--The clofe column is then ready to deploy or to L march. MARCH. FACE. Q. MARCH. vot flank.)-They move in file at the word MARCH.-A mounted officer gives, fucceffively and in due time to each diHALT FRONT. vifion, the word HALT, FRONT.--The inward officer of each divifion, when it is halted and fronted, gives his words Dress Drefs. Halt, Drefs. Fig. 67. March-Halt, Drefs, and the outward officer affifts him by remaining on the flank of the divifion in the line, in the fame manner that the ferjeant does for the company. -The left officer then replaces his ferjeant on the right of his proper company. In this manner divifion after divifion comes up into lines, and the fupernumeraries, &c. alfo gradually take their places in the rear. S. 149. CAUTION. FACE. Q. MARCH. HALT, FRONT. Drefs. On the Rear Divifion. The CAUTION of deployment is given, the line is prolonged, and an under-officer fent from the rear divifion to the pivot flank of the front one. The divifions that are to move receive the word FACE (which in this cafe is always from the pivot flank.)They move in file at the word MARCH. The divifion that is immediately before the rear one, as foon as it has uncovered the rear one, receives from the mounted officer the word HALT, FRONT, and Dress from its inward or pivot officer, and at that inftant the rear one is ordered to { March. to March forward by its pivot flank, and Halt, Drefs. to Halt, and Drefs in the line.-The divifion which preceded the rear one, and is now halted and fronted, when it is itself uncovered, in confequence of the movement of thofe before it, is alfo ordered to March forward and to Halt, and Dress in March. し Halt, Drefs. the line. HALT, FRONT. ୮ In this manner each divifion, as it uncovers the one behind it, fucceffively HALTS, FRONTS by command from the mounted officer, and when it is uncoverDrefs. ed, is brought up into line by its own inward officer, aided by the outward officer. -This done, the left officer replaces his ferjeant, who has preferved his poft in the front rank. March. Halt, Drefs. S. 150. On a Central Divifion. CAUTION. [ OUTWARDS, FACE. Q MARCH. HALT, The double operation of forming on a front and rear divifion is required.-The CAUTION of deployment is given.--The divifions FACE outwards-MARCH-and there must be an officer to HALT, FRONT, thofe of each wing.-The individual di-. vifions proceed as already directed. The column muft always be well clofed up, before it deploys.When it deploys on a front divifion, it faces to the pivot flank, which then becomes the leading one. -When it deploys on the rear divifion, it faces from the pivot flank, which then becomes the following one. The clofe column, when it forms on a front or rear divifion, may either be halted or in motion to its flank. -Fron -From this fituation of the flank march it is, that every battalion is required to begin the deploy when forming in line with others, and must therefore be much practifed by the battalion when fingle.-Viz.-After the column has been placed in the alignement, it is FACED according as it is intended to form on the front or rear divifion, and is then put in MARCH, its head divifion following the alignement: at any instant the divifion to be formed upon is ordered to HALT, FRONT, and the others, without ftopping, proceed and deploy upon it; if it is the front one, it is already in the line; if it is the rear one, the point which it comes up to, remains marked for it. When the formation is on a central divifion, it muft always begin from the halt of the clofe column. The fingle battalion fhould also in exercife deploy on the front divifion when in march, as it is the method by which the line is re-formed after paffing an obstacle, and of lengthening out the flank of a line that may be in movement. OBLIQUE DEPLOYMENTS. ALTHOUGH the quickest, moft exact, and general method of deployments, requires that the battalion before deploying fhould ftand perpendicular to the line on which it is to form, yet it may fometimes happen that the immediate deployment of a column may be demanded, on a line oblique to the one on which it then stands, and that circumftances do not permit of the previous operation of placing it perpendicular to that line. S. 151. If the Deployment is to be made on an Oblique Line advanced. Fig. 73. B. The front divifion is wheeled up into the new direction on its REVERSE flank, and the line is prolonged to D.-The column is FACED to the hand it deploys to. The leaders of divifions then turn their bodies fo as each to take a direction parallel to the given one.-The whole are put in MARCH, and the rear of the divifions gradually get into the fquare direction of their heads, which proceed and form as ufual. In this movement, the heads of the divifions will be a little retired behind each other: the rear leaders will take great care not to close on each other, nor to the hand which conducts them much precifion is also required in justly timing the HALT FRONT of each divition, which by that time ought to be moving perfectly parallel to the line of formation. S. 152. If the Deployment is to be made on an Oblique Line retired. The front divifion is wheeled up on its PIVOT flank into the new direction; and the line is prolonged to D.-The fame operation, though more difficult, takes place as when the line is advanced, and the rear di vilions |