S. 157. When the Battalion, having Wheeled from Line into Echellon, has Marched and Halted, and is to form up oblique to the Line it quitted. Fig. 77. Various circumstances attend the execution, according to the degree of wheel which must be given to the leading company, in order to place it in required oblique pofition; and as the number of paces which have been already wheeled from line into Echellon, determine the nature of the Echellon, they are an effential part of the following arrangements. Fig. 79. C. 77. B. Fig. 77. C. 1. If the formation is made forward, and the leading company is wheeled up the fame number of paces that it before wheeled from line into Echellon, then the others without altering their fituation move on, and fucceffively drefs up with it. In this manner does one or more battalions make their changes of pofition on a flank or central company of the line. 2. If its wheel up exceeds that number of paces, the others wheel up one half of that excefs, move on, and fucceffively drefs up with it. 3. If its wheel up is less than that number of paces, the others wheel back one half of what they originally wheeled forward, after deducting one half of what the leading divifion has now wheeled forward; they then move on, and dress up with it. 4. If the formation is to be on the prolongation of the front divifion as it stands, the the others wheel back one half of what they originally wheeled forward, then move on, and dress up with it. 5. If the leading divifion has to wheel back into the new position, the others wheel back (in addition to the one half of what they originally wheeled forward) half of what the leading divifion has now wheeled, move on, and dress up with it. All these specified wheelings are in order to make the divifions ftand perpendicular to the lines by which they muft march to their points of formation, which lines change in confequence of the position given by the leading divifion.. S. 158. When from Open Column, the Companies Wheel backward into Echellon, in order to form in Line on the Head Company. Fig. 78. COMPANIES, WHEEL BACKWARD, The head company either remains fquare to the column, or is wheeled forward on either flank into the intended direction of the line, and on the position given it, will depend the relative one which is taken by the other companies, and which the commander will determine to himself, by his eye, or by immediate I trial. 1. On the CAUTION, that the companies except the head one will wheel back on the right or left fo many paces (and which wheel is always backwards, and always on the reverfe flank of the column, as being that which afterwards first comes -PACES, ON THE Fig.78. A. C. Fig.54. A.B. MARCH. into line,) the officer moves to that flank, and the ferjeant of each places himfelf with his back to the 8th file of the rear rank, immediately takes his named paces, and halts fronts with his body turned in the line of the flank man on whom he wheeled. At the word MARCH, the company wheels back till the 8th file of the rear rank touches the breaft of the ferjeant, (who gives a low caution to halt) Halt, Drefs. it is then halted and dreffed by the officer from the standing flank, the ferjeant places himfelf on the outward flank, and the whole are now in a fituation to march forward, and form in the line on the head company, as in S. 159. 2. If the line was to be formed on the rear company of the column-that company would remain placed; the others would FACE ABOUT-wheel BACK on the pivot flanks of the column, as being those which afterwards firft come into lineMARCH, and then Halt, front fucceffively in the line of the rear company. 3. If the line was to be formed on the rear company, but facing to the rear-the whole column would firft countermarch, each company by files, and then proceed as in forming on a front company. [ 4. If the line was to be formed on a central company of the column-that company would ftand faft, or be wheeled on its own center into a new required direction. Thofe in front of it would be ordered to FACE about.-The whole, except the central company, would WHEEL back the named number of paces; those in its front on the proper pivot flanks of Fig. 78. B. the column, and thofe in its rear on the reverfe flanks, fuch being the flanks that first arrive in line.--The whole would then MARCH into line with the central company, as in S. 161.-If the column was a retiring one, and the line was to front to the rear, the divifions must each countermarch before the formation begun, and the head would be thrown back and the rear forward. S. 159. When the Battalion changes Pofition to the Front, on a fixed Flank Company, by throwing forward the rest of the Battalion. Fig. 77. A. Fig. 86. C. COMPANIES WHEEL FORWARD. PACES TO When the commander has determined the new line to be taken, by placing a perfon, a. in it, 20 or 30 paces beyond the fixed flank; he orders the ferjeant from before the 8th, file of the flank company to wheel up into that line, thereby to afcertain the number of paces required.-He then directs that company to be wheeled and halted in the new pofition, and the adjutant to prolong the line as far as the moving flank of the battalion will extend. The CAUTION is then given to the other companies, to wheel towards it, half the number of paces that the flank one has done, for thereby will, each stand perpendicular to the line, which is drawn from 2 Q. MARCH. from its flank in the old line to its relative Halt, Drefs. flank point in the new one, and it is along fuch line that each will move.-The battalion wheels into echellon, as in S. 154. MARCH. -Shoulder forward. Halt, Dress up. -Shoulder forward. The officer being on the inner, and the ferjeant on the outer flank of each company, the whole, except the fixed company, will move on at the word MARCH, as directed in S. 155. When the officer conducting the fecond company approaches within 7 or 8 paces (and not fooner) of where his leading flank is to join the first company already placed, he gives a word-Shoulder (the outward one) forward, on which the man next to himself preferving the fame step gradually turns his fhoulder, fo as to arrive on the new line fquare in his own person; and the rest of his divifion (who till this instant have marched in their original perpendicular direction) conforming to him proportionally lengthening their step, arrive in full parallel front on the line, so as to have a very small movement to make at the word Halt, dress up, which is given by the officer when his leading flank touches the flank of his preceding company: he himself having nimbly stept forward when at 3 or 4 paces distance, and being then before that flank, inftantly halts his men, and corrects them on the distant given point, their eyes being turned towards him, and the former divifion. In this manner company will come up after company (or divifion of whatever kind after divifion) each following one, obferving to give the word-Shoulder forward, when the preceding one gets the word |