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... fixed point . The Battalion to change Position to the Front on the right halted Company , by throwing forward the whole Left On a distant point . The Battalion in Line changes Position by breaking into open Column , marching up in ...
... fixed point . The Battalion to change Position to the Front on the right halted Company , by throwing forward the whole Left On a distant point . The Battalion in Line changes Position by breaking into open Column , marching up in ...
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... fixed flank Company by throwing forward the rest of the Battalion .... When the Battalion changes Front on a fixed flank Company , by throwing back the rest of the Battalion . When the Battalion changes Front on a Central Company , by ...
... fixed flank Company by throwing forward the rest of the Battalion .... When the Battalion changes Front on a fixed flank Company , by throwing back the rest of the Battalion . When the Battalion changes Front on a Central Company , by ...
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... Commander's Words are printed in Executive Directions , & c . SMALL CAPITALS . Small Print . Italics . INSPECTION OF A COMPANY . 1. Attention 2. Fix Bayonets A 3 PART I. 5 INFANTRY EXERCISE . INFANTRY EXERCISE, AND MOVEMENTS.
... Commander's Words are printed in Executive Directions , & c . SMALL CAPITALS . Small Print . Italics . INSPECTION OF A COMPANY . 1. Attention 2. Fix Bayonets A 3 PART I. 5 INFANTRY EXERCISE . INFANTRY EXERCISE, AND MOVEMENTS.
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... Fix Bayonets 5. Shoulder Arms 6. Present Arms 7. Shoulder Arms 8. Port Arms 9. Charge Bayonets 10. Shoulder Arms 11. Advance Arms 12. Order Arms 13. Advance Arms 14. Shoulder Arms 15. Support Arms 16. Stand at ease 17. Attention 18 ...
... Fix Bayonets 5. Shoulder Arms 6. Present Arms 7. Shoulder Arms 8. Port Arms 9. Charge Bayonets 10. Shoulder Arms 11. Advance Arms 12. Order Arms 13. Advance Arms 14. Shoulder Arms 15. Support Arms 16. Stand at ease 17. Attention 18 ...
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Frederick Augustus Griffiths. INSPECTION OF A COMPANY . 1. Attention 2. Fix Bayonets 3. Shoulder Arms 4. Rear Rank take open order - March 5. Open Pans 6. Slope Arms 7. Carry Arms 8. Shut Pans 9. Order Arms 10. Examine Arms 11. Return ...
Frederick Augustus Griffiths. INSPECTION OF A COMPANY . 1. Attention 2. Fix Bayonets 3. Shoulder Arms 4. Rear Rank take open order - March 5. Open Pans 6. Slope Arms 7. Carry Arms 8. Shut Pans 9. Order Arms 10. Examine Arms 11. Return ...
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9 Pr Antimony Arms Artillery axletree Ball Battalion boats Box.-Six portfires Brass breech bursters Carronade cartridges Charge Column of Divisions Column of Half Column of Route Column of Sub-divisions Company Composition Devil Carriage diameter diuretic drag rope drams Dress Drivers Echellon Elevation embarked embrazures feet long File fire flank form Column form Line FORM SQUARE fuzes Gabions Gun Carriage Gun Limber GUY ROPE Half Batteries Halt Handspikes Harness HEAVE hook Horses Howitzer inch Mortar Iron lashed Left take ground length lever lid of Box.-Six liniment Mealed powder move muzzle Non-commissioned Officer Ordnance ounce parapet Partition picket piece pivot placed platform QUICK MARCH reverse RIGHT OR LEFT Right take ground Rockets Saltpetre shaft side Side Arms Skidding slow match solid shot spike Stores Sulphur tackle terreplein traverses trunnions Turpentine UNLIMBER Waggon Body Waggon Limber Weight windlass Words of Command yards
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Page 283 - In the same manner multiply all the multiplicand by the inches, or second denomination, in the multiplier) and set the result of each term one place removed to the right 'hand of those in the multiplicand.
Page 300 - MECHANICAL POWERS are certain simple instruments employed in raising greater weights, or overcoming greater resistance than could be effected by the direct application of natural strength. They are usually accounted six in number; viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 356 - A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution of a right angled parallelogram about one of its sides, which remains fixed. XXII. The axis of a cylinder is the fixed straight line about which the parallelogram revolves.
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Page 356 - A sphere is a solid figure described by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which remains unmoved.
Page 285 - The root of any number, or power, is such a number, as .being multiplied into itself a certain number of times, will produce that power. Thus, 2 is the square root...
Page 331 - ... gun. — From the same table it also appears, that the time of the ball's flight is nearly as the range; the gun and elevation being the same.
Page 180 - ... it is received by the man on the other side, who hauls it through, hooking the tackle to it, both men holding up the ends of the sling. The men at the breast, and behind bring their ropes round, and make them fast to the grummets. The driver holds the horse's head, and makes fast the guys to it. The horse being previously blindfolded, the word " HOIST AWAY" is given, and he is hoisted on board.
Page 286 - When the power is expressed by several numbers, with the sign -(-or — between them, a line, or vinculum, is drawn from the top of the sign over all the parts of it ; thus, the square root of 21 — 5 is \/ 21 — 5, &c. EXTRACTION OF THE SQUARE ROOT. IT 107. To extract the square root of any number is to find a number, which, being multiplied into itself, shall produce the given number.