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APPENDIX B. 
Division of a battalion of Prussian infantry. 
One battalion has 4 companies, say of 250 men each. 
Each company formed in parade order three deep has two zugs or 
subdivisions. 
The third rank of the company when detached for its special duty of 
skirmishing, forms a third zug 3 which is thus the third part of the 
company. 
Each zug has as many sections as will enable each section to have from 
4 to 6 files, say 8 sections, these sections when employed in skirmishing 
may be called fire groups. 
The company column is a column of three zugs } each two deep. 
