Great Britain. Army -- Infantry -- Drill and tactics
Column will be reformed by reversing the above movements. On the
caution FORM COLUMN, bayonets will be unfixed, and the companies
forming the side faces will be turned about by their commanders.
The company in rear will then step off at the double by word of its
commander, while the commander of the next company will give the word
_Right--Form, Double--March_; the remaining companies will move off in
succession. If the number of companies be uneven, the rear company but
one, which will turn about with the side faces, will follow the rear
company and re-form company on the march. The second in command will
mark the point where the flank of the last company of the column will
rest, and when the company reaches this point, its commander will order
it to halt and turn about. The remaining companies will be halted and
turned about at company distance from the company preceding.
3. A square may be moved in any direction, the commanding officer
indicating the direction in which the square is to move. On the command
THE SQUARE WILL ADVANCE--SLOPE ARMS, SIDE FACES, FORM--FOURS INWARDS
the officer or officers commanding the company, or companies, facing
in the opposite direction, will turn it, or them, about. The flank to
direct should be named before the order QUICK MARCH is given. On the
command BATTALION--HALT, the side faces will turn outwards and the
company or companies which are to form the rear face will turn about.
BRIGADE DRILL.
=120.= _Deployments._
Lines of battalions in quarter column or in column, at any interval,
will deploy into line, each battalion in succession following the
procedure in S. =109=, and commencing its deployment on reaching a
point thirty paces from the mounted officer on the outer flank of the
battalion next to it in line.
If a brigade in mass is to deploy into line, the leading battalion will
deploy at once; the remaining battalions will move by the shortest
lines to the points where their inner flanks are to rest in the line,
and will then deploy in the usual manner.
=121.= _Marching in line._
When a brigade is required to march in line, each battalion will march
by its centre. A mounted officer of each battalion, not directing,
will ride on the inner flank to ensure that the correct interval is
maintained.
=122.= _A brigade in line advancing in columns, or quarter
columns._
Line of columns or of quarter columns will be formed as in S. =112=.
=123.= _A brigade forming square._
For the protection of a convoy, or wounded men, it may be necessary
to form brigade square. The angles of a square are its weak points;
in order, therefore, to obtain the greatest amount of resistance to
resolute savages, the flanks of battalions should not meet at an angle.
The square may move in any direction on the same principles as a
battalion square.
PART IV.
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