Infantry Tactics

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Article II. Manual of arms. 35. The ranks being closed, the colonel will cause the following times and pauses to be executed: Present arms. Shoulder arms. Order arms. Shoulder arms. Support arms. Shoulder arms. Fix bayonets. Shoulder arms. Charge bayonet. Shoulder arms. Unfix bayonet. Shoulder arms. Q-36. The companies of skirmishers will not generally execute the manual of arms or open ranks with the battalion companies, but for purposes of instruction in those movements, the colonel will sometimes cause them to take post on the right of the battalion. The junior major will in this case, place himself twelve paces in rear of the file closers, and opposite the centre of the companies of skirmishers. Abticle III. Iioadlng at will, and the firings. 37. The colonel will next cause to be executed loading at will, by the commands prescribed in the S. C., No. 45; the officers and sergeants in the ranks will half face to the right with the men at the eighth time of loading, and will face to the front when the men next to them come to a shoulder. 38. The colonel will cause to be executed the fire by company, the fire by wing, the fire by battalion, the fire by file, and the fire by rank, by the commands to be herein indicated. 39. The fire by company and the fire by file will always be direct; the fire by battalion, the fire by wing, and the fire by rank, may be either direct or oblique. 40. When the fire ought to be oblique, the colonel will give, at every round, the caution right (or left) oblique, between the commands ready and aim. 41. The fire by company will be executed alternately by the right and left companies of each division, as if the division were alone. The right company will fire first; the captain of the left will not give his ...

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