PART I.

INFANTRY EXERCISE, MOVEMENTS, &c.

SWORD EXERCISE. PITCHING, AND STRIKING, TENTS.

PAGE Musket, Flint lock 1

Percussion Small arms, length, weight, bore, charge, &c. 1

Blank cartridges 3

Manufacture of cartridges 3

Small arm ammunition, boxes, and barrels 5

Instructions for browning Gun barrels 5

Percussion firelocks, Instructions relative thereto 6

INFANTRY EXERCISE, AND MOVEMENTS;

_Extracted from_ “FIELD EXERCISE, AND EVOLUTIONS OF THE ARMY.”

Paces, Length of, &c. 6

_Flint firelocks_, Manual, and Platoon exercise 7

Inspection, and Dismissal of a Company 8

_Percussion firelocks_, Manual, and Platoon exercise 8

Fusil exercise 9

The Manual, and Platoon exercise of Riflemen 10

Instructions for aiming with the Rifle musket 10

Words of command, for Funeral parties 11

COMPANY DRILL.

SECT. PAGE

1. Formation of the Company 11

2. Marching to the front 12

3. The Side, or closing step 12

4. The Back step 12

5. To form four deep 12

6. File marching 12

7. Wheeling from a halt 12

8. Wheeling forward by sub-divisions 12

9. Wheeling backward by sub-divisions 13

10. Marching on an alignement 13

11. Wheeling into line 13

12. Entering into a new direction 13

13. Counter-marching 13

14. Wheeling on the centre 13

15. Diagonal march 13

16. Increasing front of open Column halted 13

17. Increasing front of open Column on the march 13

18. To pass a Defile, by breaking off files 14

19. To move to a flank, in Sections 14

20. Forming Company, &c., from file marching 14

21. To form to either Flank, from open Column 15

22. To gain ground to a flank, by marching in echellon 15

23. To form the rallying square 15

DISMISSING A COMPANY OFF PARADE 15

INSPECTING A COMPANY ON PARADE 15

MOVEMENTS OF A BATTALION.

1. Commands 16

2. Degrees of march 16

3. Marching in line 16

4. Wheeling 16

5. Movements 16

6. The Alignement 17

7. Points of formation 17

8. Dressing 17

9. Open column 17

10. Quarter distance, and close column 17

11. Echellon 18

12. Squares 19

13. Firings 19

Street firing 20

FORMATION OF THE BATTALION 20

EVOLUTIONS OF THE BATTALION 21

MOVEMENTS OF THE BATTALION FROM LINE 21

14. The Battalion, halted, is to advance in Line 21

15. When a Battalion, advancing in line, is to charge 22

16. When the Battalion moving in Line passes a wood, &c., by the flank march of Companies 22

17. When the Battalion advances, or retires by half battalion, and fires 22

18. A Battalion in line, to move to attack, &c., to the front, &c. 23

19. A Battalion in line to retire over a bridge, &c., or retreat from the flank in the rear of the centre 24

20. A Battalion in line to march off in Column of Divisions, successively to a flank 24

21. When the Battalion, halted in line, is to form square 25

22. When the Battalion forms a square, &c., to protect baggage against Infantry 27

23. A Battalion halted, in line, to change front to the rear upon the centre 27

CHANGES OF POSITION OF THE BATTALION FROM LINE, BY MOVEMENTS OF THE OPEN COLUMN.

_On a fixed point._

24. The Battalion to change position to the front on the right halted Company, by throwing forward the whole left 28

_On a distant point._

25. The Battalion in line changes position by breaking into open column, marching up in column to the point where its head is to remain, and entering the line by the flank march of Companies 28

26. The Battalion in line changes position by breaking into open column, marching to a point where its head is to rest, and to which its rear divisions form by passing each other, and wheeling up 29

OPEN COLUMN MOVEMENTS.

27. When the leading flank of the column is changed by the successive march of divisions from the rear to the front 29

28. To change the wings of a column formed where the space does not admit of the flank movement 29

29. When the column is required to form a square 29

QUARTER DISTANCE, AND CLOSE COLUMN.

30. When a Battalion forms a close, or quarter distance column from line 30

31. When the column marches to a flank 31

32. When the column at quarter distance, moving, takes ground to right, or left, by the echellon march of sections 31

33. When a column, halted, is to wheel 31

34. When a column is to change its front by the wheel, and countermarch of sub-divisions round the centre 32

35. When a column is to open out to full, or half distance 32

DEPLOYMENTS.

36. When the Battalion, in column of Companies, deploys into line 33

ECHELLON FORMATIONS, AND MOVEMENTS.

37. When a Battalion, from line, wheels forward by Companies into echellon 34

38. When the Battalion, having wheeled from line into echellon, has marched, and halted, and is to form back parallel to the line it quitted 34

39. When the Battalion, having wheeled from line into echellon, has marched, and halted, and is to form up oblique to the line it quitted 34

40. When the Battalion formed in line, changes front, on a fixed flank Company by throwing forward the rest of the Battalion 35

41. When the Battalion changes front on a fixed flank Company by throwing back the rest of the Battalion 35

42. When the Battalion changes front on a central Company, by advancing one wing, and retiring the other 35

43. When, from Open column, the Companies wheel backward into echellon, to form line on the front Company 36

44. When from line the Companies of a battalion march off in echellon to the front, and again form line 37

45. When a Battalion in echellon of Companies is required to form square 37

46. When a Battalion marching in line is to take ground to a flank by the echellon movement 37

LIGHT INFANTRY. SIGNALS, AND SOUNDS 38

INFANTRY SWORD EXERCISE 38

Extension motions, and positions 38

Preparatory instruction with the sword 39

Review, or inspection exercise 40

Attack, and defence 40

Stick drill 40

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PITCHING, AND STRIKING TENTS 41