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and formed into lines, and vice verfa, lines into columns, 
by this kind of ftep, in a lefs fpace, and confequently in 
lefs time, than by any other method whatfoever. In com¬ 
ing out of a defile, you may inftantly form the line with¬ 
out prefenting the flank to the enemy. The line may be 
formed, though ever fo near to the enemy, with fafety ; 
becaufe you face him, and can with eafe and fafety -protedt 
and cover the motion of the troops, while they are com¬ 
ing out of the defiles, and forming. The fame thing may 
be equally executed, when a column is to be formed in 
order to advance or retreat; which is a point of infinite 
confequence, and fhould be eftablifhed as an axiom. 
Before a march, the army generally receives feveral 
days’ bread. The quarter-mafters, camp colour-men, and 
pioneers, parade according to orders, and march immedi¬ 
ately after, commanded by the quarter-maffer-general or 
his deputy. They are to clear the roads, level the ways, 
make preparation for the march of the army, See. The 
general, for inftance, beats at two, the aJJ'cmbly at three, and 
the army to march in twenty minutes after. Upon beat¬ 
ing the general, the village and general-officer’s guards, 
quarter and rear guards, join their refpedtive corps; and 
the army pack up their baggage. Upon beating the ajfem- 
bly, the tents are to be ftruck, and fent with the baggage 
to the phee appointed, &c. The companies draw up in 
their feveral ftreets, and the rolls are called. At the time 
appointed, the drummers are to beat a march, and fifers 
play at the head of the line, upon which the companies 
march out from their feveral ftreets, form battalions, as 
they advance to the head of line, and then halt. 
Each foldier generally marches with thirty-fix rounds of 
powder and ball, and two good flints; one of which is 
to be fixed in the cock of his firelock. The routes muff 
be formed fo that no columns crofs one another on the 
march. 
Neither raulic nor drums are now ufed to regulate the 
march, which is in three meafures. i. Ordinary time, in 
which 75 paces are taken in a minute. 2. Quick time-, in 
which there are 108 fteps in a minute. 3. The quickeft 
time, or wheeling-march, which is at the rate of 120 fteps 
of 30 inches each, or 300 feet, in the minute. This laft is 
ufed only for wheeling. 
March, in mufic, a military air played by martial in- 
ftruments to regulate and mark the fteps of the foldiery, 
to w hich the drums ufually beat time. There are military 
pieces for field-inftruments on the parade which are called 
marches, though the regiment or corps is ftationary. 
In the Supplement to the firft edition of the Encyclo¬ 
pedia, it is truly faid, that a march fhould be always com- 
pofed in common time, with an odd crotchet or quaver at 
the beginning; and that it is almolt impoflible to march 
in cadence to a movement in triple time, unlefs it is com- 
pofed in fuch a manner that the ctefura is felt at the end 
of every two bars; that is to fay, unlefs the compofer has 
written an air in common time, as if it were in triple. 
The arfis, or up-part of the bar, naturally marks the lift¬ 
ing up of the foot in marching ; on which account the air 
ufually begins with an odd note. 
In Perfia, according to Chardin, when a building is to 
be pulled down, the ground to be levelled, or any work to 
be nerformed that requires difpatch, and the united efforts 
of a multitude, all the inhabitants of a diftrict are aflem- 
bled, who work to the found of inliruments ; and the bufi- 
nefs is done with more zeal and promptitude than it would 
be in filence. 
Marches, without lingular; [ mffrekia, Lat. from the 
Germ, march, i.e. lines; or from the Fr. marque-, being 
the notorious diftindtion between tw'o countries, or terri¬ 
tories.] The limits between England and Wales, or Scot¬ 
land, when thofe were confidered as enemies’ countries; 
which laft are divided into Weft and Middle Marches.— 
The Englilh colonies were enforced to keep continued 
guards upon the borders and marches round them. Davies. 
.1-It is not fit that a king of an ifland fhould have any 
marches' ox borders but the four feas. Davies on Ireland, 
They of thofe marches 
Shall be a wall fufficient to defend 
Our inland from the pilfering borderers. Shakefpeare, 
To MARCH, v. n. \_marcker, Fr.] To move in military 
form.—Maccabseus marched forth, and flew five-and-twenty 
•thoufand perfons. 2 Macc. xii. 26. 
My father, whenfome days before his death 
He ordered me to march for Utica, 
Wept o’er-me. Addifon's Cato. 
To walk in a grave, deliberate, or ftately, manner.— 
Plexirtus, finding that,if nothing elfe, famine would at laft 
bring him to deftrudtion, thought better by humblenefs- 
to creep where by pride he could not march. Sidney. 
Our bodies, ev’ry footftep that they make, 
March towards death, until at laft they die. Davies. 
To MARCH, v. a. To put in military movement.— 
Cyrus marching his army for divers days over mountains 
of fnow, the dazzling fplendour of its whitenefs preju¬ 
diced the fight of very many of his foldiers. Boyle on Colours „ 
—To bring in regular proceflion : 
March them again in fair array, 
And bid them form the happy day ; 
The happy day defign’d to wait 
On William’s fame, and Europe’s fate. Prior. 
MARCH, or Mkrsh, a market-town in the ifle of Ely, 
in Cambridgefhire. The market is on Friday; and three 
fairs, viz. on the Monday and Tuefday before Eafter and 
Whitfuntide, and on the fecond Tuefday in Odtober and 
the two following days. This town lies nearly midway 
between Chatteris and Wifbeach, on the banks of the ri¬ 
ver Nene ; from which circumftance it has the advantage 
of a confiderable trade. The chapel is a fpacious edifice, 
with a fpire, eredted about the year 1343. Many Roman- 
remains have been difeovered in this vicinity : when the 
road was making from March to Wifbeach, in the year 
1730, three urns were dug up, full of burnt bones and 
afhes ; and alfo a pot, containing 160 Roman denarii, of 
all the emperors from Vefpafian to Antoninus Pius, but 
chiefly of the latter. March is fifteen miles from Ely, 
twenty.fix from Cambridge, and eighty from London. 
MARCH (Aufias, Ofias, or Ugias), the beft known of 
the Limoulin poets, was born in Valencia, of Catalan pa¬ 
rents. Some of his ignorant admirers have afferted that 
Petrarch imitated him, but it is certaift that he did not 
flourifh till after Petrarch. Don Carlos, the unfortunate 
and ill-tiled prince of Viana, who died in 1461, loved his 
company; and this fufficiently afeertains his age. He was 
educated in the duke of Gandia’s houfehold, and married 
a woman of noble family ; like Petrarch, however, he 
fell in love with another man’s wife, and fpent his time 
in writing verfes upon her in the Provencal ftyle. Could 
the Catalans have fhaken off the yoke of Arragon, againft 
which they fo often and fo nobly ftruggled, their dialed!: 
would have become a cultivated tongue, and Aufias March 
would have been the father of its poetry. As it is, his 
reputation is very great, confidering the obfolete and 
wretched language in which he wrote. His poems have 
been frequently printed; the earlieft edition is that of 
Valencia 1539, in folio. After every ftanza of the origi¬ 
nal, a correfponding one in Caftilian is added by the edi¬ 
tor, Balthafar de Romani. The Valladolid edition 0(1555 
contains a copious gloffary, and fome obfervations on the 
grammar and pronunciation of the language. There is 
reafon to believe that Aufias March was of a literary fa¬ 
mily. The marquis of Cantillana fpeaks of Pero March 
as a “ valiant and noble old knight, who made many gentle 
things, and among others wrote proverbs of great mo¬ 
rality.” It is certain that the father of Aufias was named 
Pero. Jacme March is fuppofed to have been his grand, 
father, who wrote an art of poetry, with a dictionary of 
rhymes and ajonantes, in 1371, by delire of Pedro IV. of 
Arragon. R, S. in Gen. Bicg, 
MAR'CHAND 
