Rules and regulations for the formations, field-exercise, and movements, of his majesty's forces

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Sida 76 - E company is always to be fized from flanks to center. The company is formed three deep. The files lightly touch when firelocks are fhouldered and carried, but without crouding ; and each man will occupy a fpace of about 22 inches.
Sida 29 - ... fquad is to move in marching, and take a point, or object, exactly in front of that file ; he will then command March, and, remaining in his place, he will direct the advance of the fquad, by keeping the flank file always in a line with the object.
Sida 14 - March, they step off with the left foot, keeping the body in the same posture, and the shoulders square to the front ; the foot to be lifted off the ground, that it may clear any stones or other impediments in the way; and to be thrown forward, and placed firm ; the whole of the sole to touch the ground, and not the heel alone ; the knees are to be bent a little so as not to occasion fatigue or constraint.
Sida 290 - HALT, FRONT. The right companies stand fast, or HALT, FRONT if the battalion is already in motion.— The left retire in line a given number of paces and HALT, FRONT: on which the right companies retire in the same manner beyond the left, and HALT, FRONT : In this way they proceed till the battalion is ordered to form. One colour remains on the flank of its proper company in each line, and directs its movement, Of the FATTALION.
Sida 60 - Quick oblique, and when he perceives that it has doubled properly behind the right one, he gives the word, Forward, on which it takes up the ordinary march, and follows at its due...
Sida 2 - On the words Stand at Ease, the right foot is to be drawn back about six inches, and the greatest part of the weight of the body brought upon it; the left knee a little bent; the hands brought together before the body ; the palms being struck smartly together, and that of the right hand, then slipped over the back of the left; but the shoulders to be. kept back and square ; the head to the front, and . the whole attitude without constraint. On the word Attention...
Sida 340 - ... of forming to a flank with its rear rank in front. The column with its right, in front may arrive on the left of its ground, and be obliged immediately to form up and fupport that point, fo that the right of the line will become the left.
Sida 42 - If the distortion of a single man operates in this manner, and all turnings of the head do so distort him, it may be easily imagined what that of several will occasion, each of whom is marching on a different front, and whose lines of direction are crossing each other.
Sida 114 - In column, divisions cover and dress to the proper pivot flank ; to the left when the right is in front ; and to the right when the left is in front.
Sida 235 - ... oblique or direct changes of situation, which a battalion, or a more considerable corps already formed in line, may be obliged to make to the front or rear, or on a particular fixed division of the line.

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