"Columns and Maneuver" Topic
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| Stalkey and Co | 04 Dec 2020 7:32 a.m. PST |
Looking at Baron von Steuben's drill manual [dover edition] it seems like he had battalions changing formation by platoons, not divisions. Instead of 4 divisions, it looks like 8 platoons / half divisions in the formation changes. Is this correct? Did AWI units, British and American usually use an 8-sub unit system of evolutions to change formation? I thought that it was 4 divisions. Thanks for any info. |
| Virginia Tory | 04 Dec 2020 11:21 a.m. PST |
I always thought it depended on the size of the unit in question. You could do platoons or divisions. Or even sub-divisions, depending on what you were doing. |
| Stalkey and Co | 04 Dec 2020 1:33 p.m. PST |
Looking at the diagrams, it looks like 1/2 divisions, or 8 sub-units, are the assumed groups. They may be companies, and there is a diagram for assembling a company, so to him it may have been a half-division. |
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