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borodino181217 May 2012 11:07 p.m. PST

Does anybody know what formations the french infantry would have used close to the fletches? Presumably a column would not simply walk/march upto a 2m high fortification? Did they charge/run towards final movement or keep the column formation but send some troops ahead at a rush? Or simply fan out to both edges?
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MajorB18 May 2012 2:52 a.m. PST

Columns are for marching and Attack columns are for advancing. Lines are for attacking.

marshalGreg18 May 2012 12:50 p.m. PST

From the little research I found. A lot of the attackes occurred in peloton or 1 co wide x 5 or 6 deep in order to move effectively up and through all the crap and maintain order. Most came around the side like a hockey player does to slip the puck into the goal from coming around the back – except the "back of the net" would be the front of the great fleches/redoubt.
Some of the minor fleches- there are paintings showing in normal attack column and hitting it head on!

Sparker18 May 2012 4:14 p.m. PST

'Fortifcation' is something of a grandiose term for these piles of hastily erected sand and dirt that had been pounded by artillery for several hours.

The properly built fortifications had been orederd to be erected to the North, parallel to the French line of advance by some Prussian G3 dwebe, and so hastily abandoned…

All accounts I have read speak of assault columns being used…

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