FOOTNOTES:
In this and subsequent figures we suppose a division of twelve battalions.
The word division being used to designate four or five regiments, as well as two companies of a battalion, there is danger of confusion in its use.
In the Russian army the skirmishers are taken from the third rank of each division,—which makes the column eight men in depth, instead of twelve, and gives more mobility. To facilitate rallying the skirmishers on the columns, it would be, perhaps, better to take the whole fourth division for that purpose, thus giving nine ranks, or three divisions of three ranks, against infantry, while against cavalry there would be twelve ranks.