To the first row of batmen’s tents 10} _The batmen’s tents front their horses._ } To the first row of pickets for bat horses 2} 15 To the second row of ditto 10} To the second row of batmen 2} To the front of the grand sutler’s tent 10} _The grand sutler is in the rear of the colonel._ To the centre of the kitchens 15 20 _The kitchens are 16 feet in diameter._ To the front of the petty sutlers 15 15 _Directly in the rear of the kitchens: there are allowed 6 yards in front by 8 deep._ To the rear guard 15 15 _Opens to the rear._ --- --- Total depth required--Yards 253 220 If the ground on which the camp is to be formed will not, from a swamp in the rear, or any other circumstance, admit of each troop or company being formed in one row perpendicular to the front, the distribution of the front of a battalion or squadron must be more contracted than the above, and laid out as follows: Find how many perpendicular rows will be required, by dividing the number of men in the battalion or squadron by the number the ground will admit of in one row; then the number of rows being multiplied by the breadth of one in front, will give that part of the front to be occupied by the rows: and the difference between it and the whole front allowed for the battalion or squadron, will be left for the streets; which, if the streets are to be equal, must be divided by their number, to find a breadth of each; or is otherwise easily divided into streets of unequal breadths. When two guns are attached to a battalion, they are posted on the right in the following order: from the right of battalion to the centre of the first gun, four yards--from this to the second gun, 6 yards.--The muzzles of the guns in a line with the serjeants’ tents. The subaltern of artillery, if any, in a line with the subalterns of infantry. The rear of the gunner’s tents in a line with the rear of the battalion tents. For the proper positions for camps, see the word RECONNOITRING; and for the encampment of a park of artillery, see the word PARK.