Infantry Tactics, and Bayonet Exercise |
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alignment barrel bayonet body bring the piece butt captain will command carry the piece carry the right cartridge centre cock column command march covering sergeant double quick executed Figure file closers fire forward front rank geant halt inches instructor shall wish instructor will cause instructor will command left elbow left foot left guide left hand left heel left shoulder line of battle load lower band mand MARCH or double middle guard motion.-Raise the piece move movement muzzle oblique odd number opposite ordered arms paces place the left posi position of ordered position of shouldered prescribed principles Raise the piece rear rank recruit resume RIFLE MUSKET right foot right or left right shoulder scabbard second command Second motion second platoon second sergeant seize the piece shoulder arms side skirmishers soldier squad step tail-band Third motion third sergeant three motions thumb extended turn the piece UNITED STATES ARMY wheel
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Page 13 - It is recommended, in marching at double quick time, or the run, that the men should breathe as much as possible through the nose, keeping the mouth closed. Experience has proved that, by conforming to this principle, a man can pass over a much longer distance, ami with less fatigue.
Page 34 - At this command, the rear rank man of every odd numbered file will withdraw his piece from the stack; the front rank man of every even file will seize his own piece with the left hand and that of the man on his right with his right hand, both above the lower band; the...
Page 133 - To assemble the line of skirmishers at a halt, and on the line they occupy, the captain will give the same commands ; the skirmishers will face to the right or left, according as they should march by the right or left flank, re-form the groups while marching, and thus arrive on the file which served as the point of formation. As they successively arrive, the skirmishers will support arms. ARTICLE FIFTH. To deploy a battalion as skirmishers, and to rally this battalion. To deploy the battalion a
Page 10 - ... out ; at the same time throw the weight of the body forward, and plant the foot without shock, weight of body resting upon it ; next, in like manner, advance the right foot and plant it as above ; continue the march, keeping the face to the front. The instructor indicates from time to time the cadence of the step by calling one, two, three four ; or, left, right...
Page 65 - At the third command, each man will front by facing to the left, if marching by the right flank, and by a face to the right, if marching by the left flank. The rear rank men...
Page 6 - ... it gives equilibrium to the position. The instructor will observe that many recruits have the bad habit of dropping a shoulder, of drawing in a side, or of advancing a hip, particularly the right, when under arms. These are defects he will labor to correct. The upper part of the body inclining forward ; Because, commonly, recruits are disposed to do the reverse, to project the belly, and to throw back the shoulders, when- they wish to hold themselves erect, from which result great inconveniences...
Page 37 - Throw up the piece briskly with the left hand and resume the position of shoulder arms, at the same time face to the front, turning on the heel, and bring the right heel on a line with the left.
Page 71 - He will cause long marches to be executed in double quick time, both by the front and by the flank, and by constant practice will lead the men to pass over a distance of five miles in sixty minutes.
Page 86 - As soon as the files have undoubted, the rear rank will close to its proper distance. The captain and covering sergeant, as well as the left guide, if the march be by the left flank, will return to their habitual places in line at the instant the company faces to the front.
Page 3 - To change to a walk from a trot, hall saidfoncard are sounded. TITLE SECOND. INSTRUCTION ON FOOT. SCHOOL OF THE TROOPER, DISMOUNTED. 1. The object of this school being the individual and progressive instruction of the recruits, the instructor never requires a movement to be executed until he has given an exact explanation of it; and he executes himself the movement which he commands, so as to join example to precept...