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BAT 



-—drifs on the camp colour to the right. The captain then 

 Ihifts to the right of his company. The companies on the 

 left of the feventh, viz. N° 8. and the light infantry, re- 

 ceive the words from their captains hah, front, iltcp Up. 

 They are dreflfed on the camp colour to the left. 



Tenth MANOEuvaE. — Echdlon Change of Pnfit'wn. 



The colonel gives the words the light infantry 'u.'ill -wheel 

 four paces, the remaining companies two paces to the left. When 

 the covering ferjcants have taken the named number of paces 

 from the front of the eighth file from the left of their com- 

 panies, the colonel gives the word quick — march. The cap- 

 tain commanding the light infantry immediately (hifts to its 

 left flank. When the company has wheeled up, he gives 

 the word halt, drefs, dreffing it correftly on the camp co- 

 lour, which the adjutant had previoully fent to the right for 

 this purpofe. The captain, when his company is corredtly 

 drefTed, gives the word eyes front, and relumes his place on 

 the right of his company, taking care that his men iland 

 perfeftly fteady, and with carried arms, until the next com- 

 pany has drefTed on them ; his right flank being the point 

 of appui. When the colonel fees that every divifion is 

 ready, he gives the words the battalion •will march in echellon, 

 and form line un the left company — inarch. All the companies 

 march in ordinary time. As they arrive in line fucceffively, 

 they are dre.Ted by their captains from the (landing compa- 

 nies to the camp colour on the right. Each captain, when 

 he has fo drcfftd his company, gives the word eyes front, 

 and then (hifts to the right of his divifion. The whole are 

 now formed in hne, parallel to their original front, and con- 

 fiderably to the general's right. 



Eleventh Manoeuvre. — Change of Pofition. 



The colonel gives the words the battalion •will form 

 cpen column of companies In the march — right face — march. 

 When the battalion has maiched in file as far as is judged 

 necelTary, he gives the vo~ii form companies. The files in- 

 ftantly make a half face, each marching up quick and dia- 

 gonally to their refpeftive Itading men, who do not alter 

 their pace. As the pivots are m the rear of companies, 

 when they come up, the companies drefs to them by their 

 captain giving the word eyes lift; and they take up as they 

 form, the ordinary ftep. The column marches ; and when 

 the colours are oppofite to the general, the colonel gives 

 the word halt, and then to the left wheel Into line, quid 

 march. 



Twelfth Manoeuvre. — Retreat In Line. 



The colonel gives the word the battalion 111/111 retire — right 

 clout face — march. It marches fifty or fixty paces in or- 

 dinary time, drefling by its centre. No mafic plays during 

 the retreat of the battalion. The colonel gives the word 

 hat front, and directly after the battalion 'uilll Jire ttulce by 

 companies, from centre to flanks. On the lad ftroke of the 

 preparative, the captains on the right of companies ftep 

 out one pace, and give the word of command ^toora, ready 

 —prefent^fire — load. When the firil part of the general is 

 beat, the captain falls back into the front rank. The colo- 

 nel then gives the word, the battalion ivill retire by alternate 

 companies —right companies, right about face — march. Alter 

 marching in ordinary time about fifty paces, they receive 

 the word hah, front. In marching, one colour remains on 

 the flank of its proper company in each line. The king's 

 colour with the right centre, and the other colour with the 

 left centre company. A ferjeant will advance fix paces be- 

 fore each colour during the march. Each line diredls its 

 movements by its colour ; diltances are prefervcd from 

 that colour, and to it the men's eyes are turned during 

 the march. Each line has a commander. Captains are or- 

 dered to be on the inward flanks of their companies, but 



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this makes a perpetual fhifting of pontioil!, and is better 

 omitted. 



The colonel gives the word left companies, male ready 

 —prefent — fire. Immediately after firing, the men come 

 to the recover, half cock, and fhoulder arms. At the 

 word right about face — march,' the left companies march 

 fteadily on, drcillng by their colour. They pafs through 

 the intervals of the right companies, and continue marching' 

 until they receive the word from the colonel, halt front — 

 prime and load. If the chief fires the left companies, the 

 next in command fires the right companies, exaftly as the 

 left companies were fired. They retire in the fame manner 

 through the intervals of the left companies. The colonel 

 then fires the left companies, and retires them as before, and 

 fo on till he thinks it expedient to form line. 



The left companies 'will form line on the right companies — march. 

 When they have marched and filled up the intervals, the 

 word halt is given by the colonel, and drefs by the captain 

 of each company. The right companies may form line on 

 the left in the fame manner. SonK-times the right companies 

 are fired in battalion previous to their retiring. The words 

 of command ars the fame as if they had been feparated 

 from the left companies. The light infantry may be di- 

 vided in the intervals of the firll line, retire with it, and 

 charge to the other line, whenever it becomes the advanced 

 one. In this fituation, they cover the retreat, and may oc- 

 cafionally fire ; and when the line is formed, they rcfume 

 their poll on the left. Unlefs, however, the battalion is 

 very ftrong, the hght infantry- remain iu their ufual pofition 

 as a company. When the line m formed, the colonel gives 

 the word the battalion luiil retire In line — right about face — 

 march. When it has retired as far as he chufes, he gives the 

 word halt, front. 



Thirteenth Manoeuvre. March to a Flani in 



Echellon. 



The colonel gives the word battalion, by companies four 

 paces to the right wheel, and form echellon. Covering ierjeants 

 take the named number of paces as ufual. The pivots 

 make a half face to the right, the ferjeants drefling by them. 

 On the word quick march), captains on the right of their 

 companies give the word halt, drefs. Covering ferjcants go 

 to the reverfe flank. The colonel then gives the word the 

 battalion will advance in echellon — march. The whoie ad- 

 vance to the flank in echellon about two hundred and fifty 

 paces. At the word wheel back into line, the three centre 

 ferjeants inftantly ftep out into the front, and mark the lime 

 for the battalion. The pivots mark time, gradually turning 

 to their proper front, while the rell of tliedivilions wheel back 

 the four paces they had advanced. When the fourth pace 

 is completed, the colonel gives the word fo/ward ; and the 

 whole, dreffing by the centre, ftep out their full pace, till 

 they receive the word hah. The hne is then confiderably t» 

 the general's left, and parallel to its original front, in thi? 

 fituation, the colonel comniands_/i"/« three rounds by companies 

 from centre to Jlanks. Each raptain gives the vtord-i p'jioon, 

 ready, prefent, jire, load. 



Fourteenth Manoeuvre. — The Hollo^u Square, and 

 its Movements. 



The colonel gives the word the battalion tulllform a halloti: 

 fquare on the three centre companies (viz. the fourth, fifth, and 

 fixth), remaining companies — four paces on the right and left 

 backwards -wheel — quick march. The companies on the 

 right each wheel back the eighth of the circle on their 

 left, and the com.panies on the left wheel the iw.e nun.ber of 

 paces backward on the right. The colours, at the fan>e time 

 that the companies are forming their echellpns, move back 

 tliree paces into the rea<^ The fourth company by the fide 

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