Queue du Camp, Fr. Literally means the tail or extremity of the camp. It is the line which is drawn in the rear of the camp, and which is directly opposite to the one in front, called the head of the camp.
Queue de Paon, Fr. Literally means a peacock’s tail. It is used in architecture, to signify the different compartments or spaces which, in a circular figure, spread gradually from the centre to the circumference.
Queue à Queue, Fr. one after another.
Etre à la Queue, Fr. To be behind, or in the rear.
Avoir l’ennemi en Queue, Fr. To have the enemy close at your heels.
To go in QUEST of an enemy. To send out vedettes, patroles, &c. for the purpose of ascertaining an enemy’s motions.
QUIBERON, or Quibron. A small peninsula of France, in Bretagne, in the bishoprick of Vannes, and to the north of Belleisle; as also a small island called the point of Quiberon, separated from the peninsula by a channel, and the sea next it is called the bay of Quiberon. This spot has been rendered remarkable by the expedition which took place in June, 1795. Upwards of 3000 regular troops (composed mostly of French emigrants that had served abroad, with the ill judged addition of some French prisoners, taken out of English gaols) were landed upon the coast. This force was intended as a co-operation with the insurgents of La Vendee, and was afterwards to have been increased by the descent of an English army, under the command of the earl of Moira; who had, indeed, already been instructed to detach a covering body for that purpose; but the British did not land, having been driven from the French coast by stress of weather. The French emigrants were all sacrificed.
QUICK, with celerity. It forms the cautionary part of a word of command when troops are ordered to move in quick time; as quick-march.
QUICK-Step, or Quick-Time, is 100 steps of 24 inches each, or 200 feet in a minute, and is the step used in all marchings but guard marching and reviews, when the slow march may be used.
QUICKEST-Step, or Quickest-Time, is 120 steps of 24 inches each, or 240 feet in a minute. In this step, all wheelings are performed, as also the doublings up of divisions, and their increase or diminution in front.