[13]. Or, of course, by the word “rallying squares” from officers in command.
[14]. Sounds.—“Alarm” to excite attention, followed by “assembly” for regular squares on the supports, or by “assembly” and “double quick” for instantaneous “rallying squares.”
[15]. If this were true in the days of the musket, how much more must it now apply to cavalry charges made for one thousand yards under deadly discharges from the rifle! unless indeed artillery be brought against the squares with greatly increased powers of destruction.
[16]. With the bugle, the “right incline,” or “left incline,” sounded once, is understood to mean the half turn, twice (with a well-marked interval) the full turn.
[17]. Made carefully, with soldiers of the 52nd Regiment, on a retired sea-beach in British North America, in the years 1825-6.
[18]. See, among other proofs, “Instruction sur le Tir, par Ordre du Ministre de la Guerre,” Paris, 1848; and “Projet d’Instruction sur le Tir,” Paris, 1850.
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