“Change Front to the Right, on the Centre.”
The centre file faces to the right, all files to the right of it turn to the right about; the whole, except the centre file, step off, moving by the shortest lines to take up their relative distances, as before, from the pivot file, on the new line which it has given; the direction of which line, moreover, may, in all similar cases, be at the time moderately varied by the officer in command.
Change Front to the Right, on the Right File.
Change Front to the Left, on the Right File.
Change Front to the Left, on the Left File.
Change Front to the Right, on the Left File.
Change Front to the Right, on (any) File.
Change Front to the Left, on (any) File.
On the same principle the file named facing in the direction ordered, and the remainder moving to the front or rear, BY THE SHORTEST LINES, to gain their former relative places in the new line of formation.
“Advance.”