INDEX TO THE SUBJECTS,
ETC.
PART I.
| INFANTRY EXERCISE, MOVEMENTS, &c. | |
| Sword Exercise. | |
| PITCHING, AND STRIKING, TENTS. | |
| PAGE | |
| Musket, Flint lock | [1] |
| Percussion Small arms, length, weight, bore, charge, &c. | [1] |
| Blank cartridges | [3] |
| Manufacture of cartridges | [3] |
| Small arm ammunition, boxes, and barrels | [5] |
| Instructions for browning Gun barrels | [5] |
| Percussion firelocks, Instructions relative thereto | [6] |
| Infantry Exercise, and Movements; | |
| Extracted from | |
| “Field Exercise, and Evolutions of the Army.” | |
| Paces, Length of, &c. | [6] |
| Flint firelocks, Manual, and Platoon exercise | [7] |
| Inspection, and Dismissal of a Company | [8] |
| Percussion firelocks, Manual, and Platoon exercise | [8] |
| Fusil exercise | [9] |
| The Manual, and Platoon exercise of Riflemen | [10] |
| Instructions for aiming with the Rifle musket | [10] |
| Words of command, for Funeral parties | [11] |
| COMPANY DRILL. | ||
| Sect. | PAGE | |
| 1. | Formation of the Company | [11] |
| 2. | Marching to the front | [12] |
| 3. | The Side, or closing step | [12] |
| 4. | The Back step | [12] |
| 5. | To form four deep | [12] |
| 6. | File marching | [12] |
| 7. | Wheeling from a halt | [12] |
| 8. | Wheeling forward by sub-divisions | [12] |
| 9. | Wheeling backward by sub-divisions | [13] |
| 10. | Marching on an alignement | [13] |
| 11. | Wheeling into line | [13] |
| 12. | Entering into a new direction | [13] |
| 13. | Counter-marching | [13] |
| 14. | Wheeling on the centre | [13] |
| 15. | Diagonal march | [13] |
| 16. | Increasing front of open Column halted | [13] |
| 17. | Increasing front of open Column on the march | [13] |
| 18. | To pass a Defile, by breaking off files | [14] |
| 19. | To move to a flank, in Sections | [14] |
| 20. | Forming Company, &c., from file marching | [14] |
| 21. | To form to either Flank, from open Column | [15] |
| 22. | To gain ground to a flank, by marching in echellon | [15] |
| 23. | To form the rallying square | [15] |
| Dismissing a Company off Parade | [15] | |
| Inspecting a Company on Parade | [15] | |
| MOVEMENTS OF A BATTALION. | ||
| 1. | Commands | [16] |
| 2. | Degrees of march | [16] |
| 3. | Marching in line | [16] |
| 4. | Wheeling | [16] |
| 5. | Movements | [16] |
| 6. | The Alignement | [17] |
| 7. | Points of formation | [17] |
| 8. | Dressing | [17] |
| 9. | Open column | [17] |
| 10. | Quarter distance, and close column | [17] |
| 11. | Echellon | [18] |
| 12. | Squares | [19] |
| 13. | Firings | [19] |
| Street firing | [20] | |
| Formation of the Battalion | [20] | |
| Evolutions of the Battalion | [21] | |
| Movements of the Battalion from Line | [21] | |
| 14. | The Battalion, halted, is to advance in Line | [21] |
| 15. | When a Battalion, advancing in line, is to charge | [22] |
| 16. | When the Battalion moving in Line passes a wood, &c., by the flank march of Companies | [22] |
| 17. | When the Battalion advances, or retires by half battalion, and fires | [22] |
| 18. | A Battalion in line, to move to attack, &c., to the front, &c. | [23] |
| 19. | A Battalion in line to retire over a bridge, &c., or retreat from the flank in the rear of the centre | [24] |
| 20. | A Battalion in line to march off in Column of Divisions, successively to a flank | [24] |
| 21. | When the Battalion, halted in line, is to form square | [25] |
| 22. | When the Battalion forms a square, &c., to protect baggage against Infantry | [27] |
| 23. | A Battalion halted, in line, to change front to the rear upon the centre | [27] |
| CHANGES OF POSITION OF THE BATTALION FROM LINE, BY MOVEMENTS OF THE OPEN COLUMN. | ||
| On a fixed point. | ||
| 24. | The Battalion to change position to the front on the right halted Company, by throwing forward the whole left | [28] |
| On a distant point. | ||
| 25. | The Battalion in line changes position by breaking into open column, marching up in column to the point where its head is to remain, and entering the line by the flank march of Companies | [28] |
| 26. | The Battalion in line changes position by breaking into open column, marching to a point where its head is to rest, and to which its rear divisions form by passing each other, and wheeling up | [29] |
| OPEN COLUMN MOVEMENTS. | ||
| 27. | When the leading flank of the column is changed by the successive march of divisions from the rear to the front | [29] |
| 28. | To change the wings of a column formed where the space does not admit of the flank movement | [29] |
| 29. | When the column is required to form a square | [29] |
| QUARTER DISTANCE, AND CLOSE COLUMN. | ||
| 30. | When a Battalion forms a close, or quarter distance column from line | [30] |
| 31. | When the column marches to a flank | [31] |
| 32. | When the column at quarter distance, moving, takes ground to right, or left, by the echellon march of sections | [31] |
| 33. | When a column, halted, is to wheel | [31] |
| 34. | When a column is to change its front by the wheel, and countermarch of sub-divisions round the centre | [32] |
| 35. | When a column is to open out to full, or half distance | [32] |