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 ftands, 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 pofition, 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 must march to their points of formation, which lines change in confequence of the pofition given by the leading divifion.

S. 158.

S. 158. When from Open Column, the Companies Wheel backward into Echel

lon, in order to form in Line on the Head Company.

Fig. 78. 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 pofition 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 trial.

1. On the CAUTION, that the companies except the head one will wheel back on the

COMPANIES, WHEEL right or left fo many paces (and

BACKWARD,

which wheel is always back

PACES, ON THE-.wards, and always on the re

Fig. 78. A. C.

verfe flank of the column, as being that which afterwards first comes into line,) the officer moves to that flank, and the Fig. 54. A. B. | ferjeant of each places himself 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

MARCH. the word MARCH, the company wheels back till the 8th file of

the

fthe rear rank touches the breaft of the ferjeant, (who gives a low caution to halt) it is then halted and dreffed by the officer from the ftanding flank, the

Halt, Drefs, ferjeant places himself on the outward flank, and the whole are now in a fituation to march forward, and form in line on the head company, as in is. 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 thofe which afterwards first come into line-MARCH, 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, Fig. 78. B. back the named number of paces; thofe in its front on the proper pivot flanks of the column, and thofe in its rear on the reverfe flanks, fuch being the flanks that firft arrive in line. The whole would then MARCH into line with the

central

central company, as in S. 161.-If the column was a retiring one, and the line was to front to the rear, the divifions muft each countermarch before the formation begun, and the head would be thrown back and the rear forward.

S. 159.

Fig. 77. A.

Fig. 86. C.

When the Battalion changes Pofition to the Front, on a fixed Flank Company, by throwing forward the reft of the Battalion.

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.

COMPANIES WHEEL The CAUTION is then given

FORWARD.

PACES, TO THE

to the other companies, to wheel towards it, half the number of paces, that the flank one has done, for thereby will each ftand perpendicular to the line,

which

which is drawn from its flank in the old line to its relative flank point in the new one, QMARCH and it is along fuch line that each will move-The battalion

Halt, Drefs.

wheels into echellon as in S. L154.

The officer being on the inner, and the ferjeant on the outer flank of each company,

MARCH. the whole except the fixed company will move on at the word MARCH as directed in S. 1155.

When the officer conducting the second 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

-Shoulder forward. a word-Shoulder (the outward

one) forward, on which the man next to himself preferving the fame ftep gradually turns his fhoulder, fo as to arrive on the new line fquare in his own perfon; and the reft of his divifion (who till this inftant have marched in their original perpendicular direction) conforming to him proportionally lengthening their step, arrive in full parallel front on the line, fo as to have a very small movement to make at the word Halt, Drefs up, Halt, dress up, which is given

by the officer when his leading

flank